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Description: | An incomplete and bent copper-alloy Roman Colchester bow brooch. It is missing the majority of the hook, the spring and pin due to old breaks, now worn.The wings are rectangular, short and flat. Their front face is decorated with two transverse grooves. They are separated at their centre by an integrally cast rectangular hook. This is a flattened D-shape in section and curves forwards towards the head of the brooch, before terminating in old breaks. The bow is D-shaped in section, undecorated and tapers to a sharp pointed foot. On the back face of the foot is an integrally cast catch plate that is triangular in form with a rectangular pin groove. The catch plate is decorated with open work decoration in the form of two circular holes. There is rocker decoration along the longitudinal attachment edge and transverse grooves on the outside edge of the pin groove.This brooch measures 30.49mm in length, 11.35mm in width at wings, 3.96mm in width at bow, 2.56mm in thickness at bow, 2.48g in weight.This brooch is similar to one discovered at Hacheston (Blagg et al, 2004, p. 94, no. 63) and to one recoded on the PAS database (WILT-BDB013). However, no direct parallels could be found. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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