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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Roman HStrip bow brooch. The lower bow, foot and pin are all missing. The remaining upper bow and head are simple in form. The bow consists of a strip of metal, tapering slightly towards the foot. The outer surface is decorated with a central, vertical groove, with a further groove to each side, both decorated with small closely spaced, parallel, horizontal lines. Above this, just below the head, is a wider section, each side of which curves outwards and is decorated with a small circular groove. The head itself has been formed by a strip of metall curved back on itself to form a simple tube with a vertical groove in the centre where the pin would have sat. The original shape of the bow is difficult to determine, as it has become bent out of shape, but would probably have been quite straight. Bayley and Butcher (2004, 154) suggest that most strip brooches are of British manufacture and date to AD c.25-c.70.Length: 26.90mm, Width of head: 14.48mm, Thickness of head: 3.53mm, Weight: 1.61g
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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