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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman bow and fantail brooch. It is missing most of hte pin due to old breaks but is otherwise complete. The wings are cylindrical in form, folded to encase the axis bar and with a vertical slot at the centre of the back face through which hinges the now incomplete pin. The front faces of the wings have decoration comprising single vertical grooves at each end, with single diagonal grooves running from the top centre to bottom edge of the wings. The bow is triangular in section with moulded decoration at the join of bow and foot. This consists of three transverse ridges separated by broad grooves or flutes, a single transverse groove at the top of the moulding. The foot is flat, triangular in form with a border formed from a single incised groove. On the back face of the foot is an integrally cast catchplate, which is sub-triangular in form and missing part of ots outer edge due to old breaks. The entire brooch has a pitted dark green patina with traces of an added white metal coating. It measures 34.16mm in length, 22.22mm in width at wings, 4.81mm in width at bow, 3.57mm in thickness at bow, and 6.01g in weight.This is a Roman bow brooch of probable bow and fantail type. Its form draws parallels with Hattat's bow and fantail group of hinged brooches (Hattatt, 1989: nos. 462, 815, 817) although the decoration of the foot differs and is closer to the Maxey type bow and fantail brooches of late 1st centruy date (Hattatt, 1989: fig. 173). Similarly, the moulded decoration on the bow finds closer parallels in an earlier group of devolved Lion bow brooches that are typically sprung rather than hinghed (see in particular Hattatt, 1989: no. 780), although Hattatt appears not to always be consistent in his division between this and the bow and fantail groups. This brooch is likely to date to between the late-1st and 2nd centuries AD.
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