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Description: | Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Polden Hill / T-shaped Type and of 1st - 2nd century AD dateThe brooch is fragmentary, represented by the head and upper bow only (with a surviving length of 19.5mm, a surviving depth of 12.6mm and a weight of 6.8g). The missing spring was secured between lateral lugs and the chord tensioned by a lug at the head, in a Polden Hill type lug arrangement. The wings (with a width of 25.4mm) are angled slightly to the rear and the fronts of the wings are decorated with prominent vertical grooves and ribs. The upper bow is highly arched and of sub-triangular section (with a width of 7.7mm and a thickness of 5.8mm), with sides converging to the break. The top of the bow has curved side mouldings, stepped to the bow before the break. The head lug appears to have been incorporated into a midrib, now corroded. Any other decorative detail on the bow has also been lost to corrosion. The surface has remnants of a dark-green patina and elsewhere has corroded pale-green.
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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