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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy late Iron Age to early Roman period brooch of 'Birdlip' or 'Beaked Bow' type, c. 50 BC-AD 50. The remains of the brooch consist of a portion of the neck and body; the brooch is missing its head, spring, pin and foot with catchplate. The remaining portion of the neck is curved at a nearly 90-degree angle from the neck with moulded decoration and is sub-oval in shape with a recessed oval channel broken onto one side from an old break, obscuring the original shape of the head. The neck is decorated with a boss on the bow which has a narrowed oval collar flanking a larger, more protruding oval collar above and below, followed by an upturned 'beak-like' protruding element. From the position of the beak-like protrusion and downwards, an incised runs down both vertical edges of the reverse, creating the upper portion of an elongated catchplate. This terminates abruptly at an old break almost all of the way down the brooch body, resulting in the absence of the lower catchplate and foot. The brooch has an overall medium green colour and patina. It measures 35.18 mm long, 9.05 mm diameter at larger moulded decoration, 4.23 mm thick (at upper portion of brooch body, under moulded decoration); it weighs 4.45 grams. Cf. Hattatt 2007, p. 295, fig. 154; also Worrell (draft), 'Late Iron Age Brooches', pp 14-15.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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