Rights Holder: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
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Unique ID: WILT-03CF75
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An incomplete Roman copper alloy strip bow brooch, a British variant of an Aucissa brooch, dating to c. AD 20 - 70. The surviving fragment comprises of the upper bow and damaged head, the rest of the brooch being lost to old breaks.
The head of the brooch is rolled back to hold an iron axis bar, partially surviving in situ and with a rectangualr slot cut to accommodate a hinged pin. The bow has slightly convex edges, possibly exaggerated by wear, and is decorated by two deep, V-shaped grooves running parallel to and flanking a central longitudinal band of corded decoration, of incised obliquely angled lines.
Dimensions: length 32.46mm; width 10.19mm; weight 1.98g.
cf. Bayley & Butcher (2004: p153) T53, SOM-D505C4.
Class:
British strip bow (Durotrigian)
Sub class: Aucissa variant
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 20
Date to: Circa AD 70
Quantity: 1
Length: 32.46 mm
Width: 10.19 mm
Weight: 1.98 g
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Other reference: SSWM 5402
4 Figure: ST9816
Four figure Latitude: 50.94343573
Four figure longitude: -2.02983913
1:25K map: ST9816
1:10K map: ST91NE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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