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Description: | A complete cast copper-alloy Iron Age to Roman Colchester bow brooch. It has relatively flat rectangular wings that are slightly concave on their back faces and have moulded decoration consisting of double vertical ridges on the front faces. At the centre of the wings is an integrally cast axis bar and spring of ten coils that extends to a pin with sharp tapering point. The pin itself has suffered from post-depositional damage and is now slightly bent in form but appears complete. The axis bar is held in place by an integrally cast hook that is flat, rectangular in form and would originally have folded forwards onto the head of the bow, but now projects upwards due to post-depositional damage. The bow is D-shaped in section with flat back and rounded front face. It curves sharply to produce a right angle at the head of the brooch before tapering to a pointed foot. On the back face of the foot is an integrally cast catchplate. This is triangular in form with folded outer edge and is decorated with three perforations arranged in a triangular formation. The lowest of the three perforations is leaf-shaped, the two above mirror each other and are roughly square with a slight projection to one side of the base and a concave upper edge. This brooch measures 33.13mm in length, 19.68mm in width at wings, 4.49mm in width at bow, 2.77mm in thickness at bow, and weighs 5.59g.This is a later Iron Age to Roman Colchester bow brooch. It finds parallels in examples published by Hattatt (1989: nos. 249-250) and dates to the 1st century AD, c.25-60 AD.
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