|
Date: |
|
Description: | Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Wroxeter type (Hull's corpus type 151) and of 2nd century AD dateThe brooch is incomplete, missing the lower part of the leg and the pin (with a surviving length of 51.2mm, a depth of 28.5mm and a weight of 15.9g). The brooch originally appears to have employed an open spring mechanism with the chord tensioned beneath, and the axis bar secured by lateral lugs. The pin is likely to have been repaired, where a flat headed pin was inserted between the coils of the spring and possibly tensioned by resting on the chord. The head is D-shaped (14.5mm wide) with an elaborate head plate (27.9mm long), comprising perforations with raised borders forming opposing C-shaped devices, with the chain-loop at the apex (3.7mm diameter). The D-shaped area around the bow has a decorative stepped rib with delicate incised, diagonal grooves. The upper bow has straight parallel sides (8.7mm wide) as far as the leg and is stepped at the sides with a convex rear. The front of the bow is decorated with two vertical cells to hold enamel, with the remnants of blue enamel surviving and traces of red enamel survive in one section only; suggesting alternating squares of red and blue enamel. The upper bow is enhanced with lentoid pellets on each side, before a step to the leg. The leg is of D-shaped section with straight sides converging slightly to the break (with a maximum width of 7.0mm and a thickness of 4.5mm; and a minimum width at the break of 4.9mm). The surviving part of the leg is decorated with lentoid mouldings with internal grooves and joined with a rib. The rear of the leg has the remnants or the start of the catch-plate, surviving as a rib. The surface has a pale green patina with area of bright green corrosion.The brooch can be paralleled with an example recovered from the Dorset-Hampshire border and recorded by Hatatt (1987, p 146, no. 982) , which has a similar head-plate but the bow has three enamelled columns and is without a step to the leg.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
BROOCH
Roman copper alloy bow brooch…
-
-
BROOCH
Roman copper alloy bow brooch…
-
-
BROOCH
Roman copper alloy bow brooch…
-
-
-
BROOCH
Roman copper alloy bow brooch…
-
-
BROOCH
A Roman copper alloy bow…
|