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Description: | Roman copper alloy bow brooch of Polden Hill type and of 1st century AD dateThe brooch in incomplete and fragmentary, missing the pin and catch-plate and broken across the top of the bow (with a length of 50mm, a depth of 16mm and a weight of 11.0g). The spring remains in place and is comparatively wide (at 39.5mm), secured around a copper alloy axis bar between lateral lugs, only one of which now survives. The chord is tensioned by a hook at the head. The head is of sheet copper alloy and the fronts of the wings are decorated with three vertical grooves each side. The grooves are in-filled with punched hatching. The bow appears to have ben of D-shaped section at the head (5.3mm wide and 2.6mm thick), with straight sides gradually converging to the pointed foot. The bow is heavily corroded and broken but appears to have been decorated with a central linear groove, possibly also originally in-filled with hatching. No decoration is now discernible on the mid-bow or leg. The catch-plate was as wide as the slender leg and has broken well before the catch. The surface has a dark-green patina surviving on one side the wings and elsewhere is heavily-corroded pale-green to red-brown.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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