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Description: | Cast copper alloy P-shaped divided bow brooch, triangular in plan, with an upper and a central transverse bar, tapering to a shield-shaped foot. Each side of the divided bow is lozenge-shaped in section, and the cross-bars are rectangular in section. The upper bar or head of the brooch is lozenge-shaped and still retains the remains of the hinge at the back, but the pin is missing. The catchplate is still intact with its curved clasp behind the foot, but the whole brooch is bent backwards, with the hinge on top and the catchplate parallel to the head, so that it is now P-shaped in the opposite direction to its original profile in antiquity.The formation of three bars in a triangular openwork setting is similar to the P-shaped bow brooches illustrated in Hattatt (2000) on page 367, Fig.226, Nos.1669-1670, which date from the 2nd to the 3rd century AD, but do not have a cross bar.Bayley and Butcher (2004) illustrate similar examples on page 104, Fig.82, Nos.253 & 255, which date from c.AD 280-400, but the bars in these examples appear to be triangular in section, and not flat like this example.Bishop (1996) illustrates similar divided bow brooches with hinged pins from Roman Aldborough, which was occupied until the end of the 4th century AD, on page 57, Fig.32, Nos.327 & 330.Snape (1993) states on page 52 that P-shaped and divided bow brooches were in use in Britain from the early 3rd century AD and throughout the first half of the 3rd century in the North, but the recorder can find no close parallel for this type of brooch, and therefore cannot be certain of the date.Another possibility is that the brooch is a divided knee brooch variant, with an inverted S-shaped profile, but the foot and catchplate are different in this case, and again the cross-bar in the bow. Hattatt (2000) illustrates examples of these on page 336, Fig.195, Nos.1229 & 1401, which date from the 2nd century AD. Butcher (2000) illustrates a divided knee brooch from Nornour, Isles of Scilly, on page 25, Fig.9, No.316, which is dated from the late 2nd century to the early 3rd century AD.
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