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Description: | Foot and lower part of the bow of a cast copper alloy Roman bow brooch. The upper part of the bow, pin and head are missing with an old break at the top. The bow and foot are oval in section with both front and back convex. At the foot is a large raised oval stud decorated on the front with indented lines forming a saltire or crude face (the two upper lines are angled to meet at the centre with a wider, more triangular, indent below). Above the stud the front is decorated with an indented transverse line above which the foot and bow are plain to the break. On the back is a complete catchplate, sub triangular with a curved upper edge and straight lower edge which meets the foot at a point and has a catch curved over 180 degrees. It is now 21.1mm long, 6.1mm wide, 18.6mm thick including the catchplate and weighs 3.04 grams.Without more of the bow it is difficult to be certain of the brooch type as most are defined by the form of the head, missing in this example. The foot knop and indented decoration is however often found on developed T-shaped brooches which they date from the later 1st to mid 2nd century (Bayley and Butcher 2004:167).
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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