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Description: | An incomplete Late Iron Age/ early Roman (AD 25-60/70) copper alloy strip bow brooch, missing the axis bar, the pin, the lower bow and catchplate. It measures 23.25mm in length and weighs 1.79 grams.The wings span 17.35mm. The wings curl backwards to enclose the missing axis bar. Between is a slot for the pin.The bow below has been bent backwards slightly. It measures 11.65mm wide. The edges are raised and the bow is decorated with two parallel central vertical grooves decorated with circular recesses. The strip brooch is a derivative of the Aucissa brooch and native to Britain, being more common in Dorset, Wiltshire and the Somerset and Avon areas (although a number have been discovered in Oxfordshire and further north).
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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