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Bow brooch
Unique ID: NMGW-DE11F3
Object type certainty:
Roman copper alloy bow brooch of T-shaped type and dating to the 1st to 2nd century AD. The brooch employed a hinge mechanism with tubular wings enclosing a copper alloy axis bar. The wings have not been cast at a right angle to the bow, and also slope towards the rear of the head. The wings are decorated with vertical mouldings. The top of the head has a simple chain loop, which is now broken. The upper bow is of sub-triangular section, and was decorated with short irregular incised lines. The button is unusual and is composed of a flat oval panel with an incised border defining a central chevron. The chevron panel contains four recessed U-shaped cells around a central circular cell, forming a floral motif. The recessed cells are likely to have contained enamel. The lower bow is decorated with short incised lines to the moulded foot. The catch-plate arcs from the rear of the button, and the rear of the catch is decorated with an incised zigzag line. Traces of silvering or tinning survive on some of the surface.
Notes:
The brooch can be best paralleled with Hattatt’s (1987) Nos. 918-9, Hull’s Type 122. The decoration on the button of this example is slightly different with the arrangement of the U-shaped cells within a chevron as apposed to two triangular cells in a lozenge. Other features on the brooch are similar.
Class: T-Shaped
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Length: 51.1 mm
Width: 20.2 mm
Thickness: 14.8 mm
Weight: 8.7 g
Quantity: 1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Incomplete [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Spatial data
Region: Wales
County: Vale Of Glamorgan
District: Vale Of Glamorgan
Parish: Llancarfan
Restricted 4 Figure grid reference: ST0271
The map has been degraded and provides an approximate location with a degree of random obfuscation.
Grid reference source:
Grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Method of discovery: Metal detector
[scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st September 2003 - Sunday 1st February 2004
Personal details
Found by: This information is restricted for your login.
Identified by: Mr Mark Lodwick - [view all attributed records]
Other reference numbers
Other reference: NMGWPA 2004.36.2
References cited
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Audit data
Created:
Tuesday 9th March 2004
Updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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