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Description: | Incomplete late Iron Age to Roman copper alloy LĂ©ontomorphe or Lion bow derivative brooch, one end of one wing, the spring an the catchplate flap missing. The wings are decorated with a pair of shallow but broad grooves at their outer end(s), and a groove follows both sides of the fantial.Cf. Hattatt 200, fig. 166 no. 780, Mackreth 2011, 30, LEO 5.d., pl. 17, no. 5947, where the lion motif has suffered a "Crude reduction to a bow tie". Length 40.5mm. Wingspan c.16.5mm. c.25 - c.65.
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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