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Description: | Roman copper alloy bow brooch, 47mm long, 27mm wide and 3mm thick. The brooch is in good condition and weighs 18.16 grams. The brooch is a hybrid with characteristics of a birdlip and bow and fantail type brooch.It has short, solid circular sectioned wings which contain a pin wrapped around a recessed bar in the centre. There is a broken suspension loop above the pin and below this the brooch has semi-circular sectioned curved bow. This bow has flat, sub triangular projections on each side which terminate in spherical knops and have recessed triangles (for enamel?) in their centre. Where the bow meets the base plate it curves in the opposite direction and tapers to a point, forming an upwards and outwards facing triangular terminal (this is the Birdlip characteristic). Below this point the brooch resembles a bow and fantail type, with a triangular base plate which contains an incomplete catch-plate running up the centre of its reverse. It has a small rounded protrusion running along the front of its flat base and above this, filling most of the plate, it has three triangular enamel (now missing) cells arranged so that the centre one is pointing in the opposite direction of the other two.
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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