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Description: | A Nauheim-derivative copper-alloy one piece bow brooch of Late Iron Age or Early Roman period, 25-100 AD.The spring, which is integrally cast, has three of the four coils surviving however the fourth and pin have broken away. The spring has a total width of 10.3mm and is formed of rectangular cross-sectioned coils that form an external diameter of c. 7.2mm. The cord passes below the neck of the below, the spring therefore seeming to sit over the upper surface of the extreme tip of the bow. This incomplete brooch has a rectangular cross-sectioned bow, of 0.7mm thickness, that tapers to the foot from a maximum width of 9.5mm to 3.3mm where it ends in a diagonal slightly worn break. A single longitudinal line of faintly incised zigzag decoaration is present along the centre of the bow's upper surface. It is uncertain whether traces of decoration, possibly in the form of tiny triangles, decorate the edges of the bow. This area would benefit from study with the use of a microscope. No catch-plate survives. The object has a light greenish blue-grey patina. Weight is 1.91g, surviving length is 28.3mm.See Hattatt, pp.290-291, figs. 149-150, nos. 737, 238 & 247, for similar decorative motifs. Also see The second edition (AD 2003) of Murawski P.G., 2000 Benet's Artefacts of England and the United Kingdom Current Values Cambridge : Millennium First Edition, pp.64, no.I07-0204.
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