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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Roman bow brooch of Colchester derivative with double pierced lug. It is missing the spring, pin and axis bar 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. The still holds in place the remains of a separately cast copper-alloy spring chord and a fragment of the axis bar. 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. At the base of the bow is an integrally cast catchplate that is triangular in form with a rectangular pin groove. The catch plate is decorated with open work decoration in the form of one complete circular hole and one circular casting mark.This bow brooch measures 40.78mm in length, 17.68mm in width at the wings, 7.39mm in width at the bow, 2.95mm in thickness, 4.39g 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). | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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