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Description: | Late Iron Age to Roman copper alloy bow brooch of uncertain type and of 1st or 2nd century AD dateThe brooch is fragmentary, missing the head and foot (with a surviving length of 53.6mm, a surviving depth of 12.4mm and a weight of 5.4g). The brooch is broken near the top of the bow, which is of sub-rectangular section (4.5mm wide and 5.7mm thick. The sides of the bow are straight and convergent towards the break, just above the missing foot. The bow is heavily-corroded with little surviving detail but a central groove is discernible and there is the suggestion of a groove on one side. The rear of the bow has small remnants of the catch-plate surviving. The surface had a black patina, now mostly lost and elsewhere has a pale green corrosion.The missing head of the brooch makes typological identification difficult and speculative. The form of the bow may suggest a brooch of Colchester, Colchester derivative, Polden Hill or allied form; types that generally date to the 1st century AD.
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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