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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Roman Colchester bow brooch. It is missing the pin and most of the catchplate due to old breaks. The wings are flat, rectangular in form, and undecorated. At the centre of the wings is an integral spring chord and of five coils, held in place by an integral lug that folds forwards onto the head of the bow. The bow itself is oval in section, undecorated, and tapers to a pointed foot. On the back face of the foot is an integral catchplate that has possible traces of openwork decoratio but is largely incomplete due to old breaks. The entire object measures 51.36mm in length, 13.88mm in width at wings, 4.75mm in width at bow, 3.58mm in thickness at bow, and 6.26g in weight.This is an incomplete Roman Colchester bow brooch. It finds parallels in examples published by Hattatt (1989: nos: 249-250) and is of 1st century AD date, c.25-60 AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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