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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman bow brooch, a derivative of the trumpet headed type. The brooch dates from the late first to second century AD. The brooch has a trumpet shaped head which is hollow for the sprung pin mechanism, still intact. The pin, however, has been broken and is missing. The iron spring is of five coils and is held in place by an iron axis bar. Much of the iron from the spring has produced a ferrous corrosion product which has formed on the brooch. Above the trumpet head there is an integrally cast suspension loop, now broken. A ridge runs down the centre of the top of the head to a large round decorative boss. This boss has a circular pellet in the centre surrounded by a circular cell which probably originally contained enamel, although none survives. The circular boss is flat on the reverse. Below the boss the bow is broken and missing. No remnants of the catchplate survive. The brooch has a predominantly brown colour, largely a result of the aforementioned ferrous corrosion.Length 29.77 mm, width 12.65 mm, thickness 10.16 mm, weight 6.1 grams. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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