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Description: | A Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Langton Down Type dating to the mid 1st century AD (25-60 AD). The brooch is incomplete and is represented by part of the head and the bow only, the spring and the pin are missing from old breaks. The cylindrical cover which held the spring survives in part. It is open ended and formed of a flat sheet that would have been folded over. There is a small notch on both edges of the cover that would have allowed the pin to emerge from the spring. The head is 18.1mm in width. The bow rises perpendicular from the head and then bends immediately by 90 degrees to form the straight bow, 44.1mm long. The bow has a width of 11.2mm at the head, narrowing to about a third of the way down then has a consistent width of 7.2mm to the foot and is flat in cross section with a thickness of 1.9mm. The front of the bow is decorated with a raised transverse collar where it meets the head and a raised central rib running down the length; the rib is wider and thicker at the head then narrows as the bow narrows in the upper part. The foot is square with slightly rounded corners; on the back is the raised central ridge with two irregular know protruding which formed the base of the broken catchplate. It weighs 7.2 grams.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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