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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy pseudo-bow brooch dating to the late third to fourth century.The brooch has a semi-circular headplate with clear wear and possibly old breaks around the edge suggesting a large headplate. The plate is flat with the remnants of the hinge on the back. The bow of the brooch is D-shaped in section and curves sharply away from the headplate to create a P-shaped profile. The brooch is broken which means the foot and catch plate are no longer present. The brooch is 22.25 mm in length and the semi-circular headplate is 16.13 mm wide.There are similar examples from the excavations at Richborough (Bayley and Butcher 2004: 101-2), see catalogue numbers 245 and 246. Brooches of this type are suggested to be British in manufacture with examples known from elsewhere in Britain but not from the continent.
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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