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Description: | Copper alloy fragment of a Roman crossbow brooch dating between 320-400 AD. The fragment would originally been one of three knops forming the 'cross'; a lateral bar with knop terminals and a central terminal projecting upwards from the centre, with the bow extending from beneath central knop. This fragment consists of a bar, broadly triangular in section, terminating in an expanded spherical knop. At the join between bar and knop are two raised circumferential collars. There is a circular hole within the body of the bar between the broken end and the collars. The lower edge of the bar expands in width with notches forming an irregular pattern; the upper edge is flat. A circular iron bar appears to run through the centre of the copper alloy bar, visible on the outer face of the spherical knop and on the broken edge. The surface of the fragment bears traces of gilding. It measures 21.98mm in length, 9.42mm in width and is 5.09mm thick. the knop has a diameter of 8.45mm and the fragment weighs 4.76g.It is likely that this terminal would have formed one part of the axis bar, indicated by the iron core. Hattatt ( x ) illustrated a similar perforated example, no. 1267. For more complete examples, see LANCUM-CO7F08, LVPL-975CA4 and SWYOR-742103, although numerous fragmentary brooches of this style, including knopped terminals, can be found on this database.
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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