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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman P-Shaped crossbow brooch, lightweight crossbow type. It is missing the foot and pin due to old breaks but is otherwise complete. The brooch has cylindrical wings with slight vertical grooves towards the ends of each wing. Through the centre of the wings can be seen the remains of the iron axis bar, although there is no trace of a join or seam along the wings themselves. At the centre of the wings is a vertical slot through which the remains of the corroded copper-alloy pin can just be seen. The bow is rectangular in section at the head, tapering to a triangular section towards the base of the bow where it terminates in old breaks. At the head of the bow is a large integrally cast projecting conical knop with double circumferential groove. The entire brooch measures 37.47mm in surviving length, 37.50mm in width at wings, 9.05mm in width at bow, 7.30mm in thickness at bow, and weighs 18.68g.This brooch fragment is of an early, lightweight hinged crossbow type. Parallels in terms of size and shape can be noted at Roman Richborough, particularly nos. 274, 277-278 (Bayley and Butcher, 2004: nos. 274, 277-278; see also SF-C64B33). These indicate a 3rd to 4th century AD date for the brooch.
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