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BROOCH
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The British Museum, Michael Byard, 2019-12-19 16:03:09
Title
BROOCH
Description
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The foot and catchplate of a cast copper alloy Roman bow brooch. The bow, pin and head are missing.

The bow is D-shaped in section with a flat back. It tapers in width from the break to the foot. At the top of the fragment is an expanded central rib that runs vertically down the bow. 

The foot of the brooch is flat and projects outwards from the front of the plate. The top of the foot is decorated by a single incised lines providing the foot with a raised collar.

On the back of the bow is a catchplate. This catchplate is sub-trapezoidal in shape with an upper edge that curves to meet the back of the plate and a lower edge which project almost perpendicularly from the back of the foot. The outer edge appears to be slightly curved to provide a rest for the pin.

The brooch now measures 26.5mm in length, 3.1mm in width, and weighs 1.86 grams .

Without the bow it is difficult to be certain of the brooch type as most are defined by the form of the head, missing in this example. The foot knops often found on initial and developed T-shaped brooches which Bayley and Butcher (2004:167) date from the later 1st to mid 2nd century. Similar lower portions of bows are illustrated by Hattat (2000: 302, No.914) and Mackreth (2011: 67, Pl. 64). See SOM-05537C for a similar foot of a brooch.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Oxfordshire
Date between 1 and 199
Accession number
FindIdentifier: 986117
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1085858
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1085858/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
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Object location51° 51′ 59.04″ N, 1° 33′ 57.28″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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