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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 foot is D-shaped in section with a flat back. It tapers in width from the break to the foot. At the foot is a raised oval stud and above the stud the foot is plain. On the front of the bow level with the top of the catch plate are two transverse raised plain lines running across the width. At the top where the brooch finishes, due to the old break, is the beginnings of lozenge decoration. On the back is a complete catchplate, sub-trapezoid with a curved upper edge and straight lower edge level with the foot knop. It has a catch curved over 180 degrees along the outside edge but only a small part of this survives with old breaks removing the rest. It is now 41.4mm long, 8.4mm wide, 12.2mm thick including the catchplate and weighs 4.67 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 shape of the foot and the angle at which the bow rises are however typical of t-shaped brooches found in Somerset. The lozenge decoration is also a common decorative motif for this region, although in many other cases there is enamelling within the lozenge. SOM-8B6D82 has very similar transverse lines decorating the front of the brooch and is similar in shape and SOM-49B944 has similar lozenge decoration.
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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