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Description: | Roman copper alloy Wirral type bow brooch, 42mm long, 18mm wide and 17mm thick. The brooch is in good condition and weighs 10.41grams. The brooch has small wings with circular terminals which hold a circular sectioned bar from which hangs a pin. This is attached using a small circular hole to thread the bar through. The head of the brooch is rectangular and is decorated with two vertically aligned rectangular cells, set side by side. These are each divided into four and have two of these areas filled with enamel, arranged alternately so the whole appears like a chequerboard. The enamal appears to be yellow and blue, but these may not be original colours. Below this the tapering bow begins with two sub spherical leaf shaped protrusions flanking a raised vertical ridge. The ridge runs to the base of the bow where it terminates in a rounded foot. The catchplate takes up the entire length of the bow and its reverse is decorated with two incised X's separated by incised horizontal lines.These brooches have a distribution in northern England, with the largest cluster, and probable manufacturing site, in the Wirral area.The PAS has now recorded examples in the midlands and along the welsh border.see for locations http://finds.org.uk/database/search/map/objecttype/BROOCH/broadperiod/ROMAN/description/Wirral
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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