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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Roman bow brooch of Colchester derivative with double pierced lug. It is missing the foot, catch plate, pin, axis bar and half of the spring due to old breaks, now worn.The wings are semi-cylindrical in form, undecorated and separated at their centre by a rear facing double pierced lug. This holds in place the remains of a separately cast copper-alloy axis bar, spring chord and spring with three surviving coils. The lug extends forwards onto the head of the brooch where it develops into a longitudinal central rib running the length of the bow. The bow itself is triangular in section with flat back face.This bow brooch measures 30.42mm in length, 18.25mm in width at the wings, 9.09mm in width at the bow 3.08mm in thickness, 3.93g in weight.This brooch is similar to those published by Hattatt (Hattatt, 1989, pp.297 no. 258) and discovered at Hacheston (Blagg et al, 2004, pp. 96, no. 111).
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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