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Northamptonshire County Council, Steven Ashby, 2007-08-15 19:54:27 Title Early Roman Bow brooch: 1st-century dolphin brooch, probably Polden Hill mechanism

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Early Roman Bow brooch: 1st-century dolphin brooch, probably Polden Hill mechanism
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Northamptonshire County Council, Steven Ashby, 2007-08-15 19:54:27
Title
Early Roman Bow brooch: 1st-century dolphin brooch, probably Polden Hill mechanism
Description
English: A Romano-British dolphin brooch, possibly of the Polden Hill type. The brooch is relatively short (26.4mm), with 22.1mm wide wings housing a spring casing open at the rear. The brooch has a downwardly curving, typical dolphin style bow, which tapers gently to a blunt, rounded foot. The bow is decorated with reeding and zigzags, and there is a small stud at its apex.

The brooch could be classified as a Langton Down type, but the slight flaring at the wing terminals might relate to the 'appendages' typical of the Polden Hill spring mechanism. Similarly, a single-pierced lug is present at the brooch's head. This lug was used to scure the spring's external chord.

Polden Hill brooches are part of the dolphin bow fibula family, and date to the middle of the 1st century AD.

Mass 5.2g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Northamptonshire
Date between 50 and 70
Accession number
FindID: 189170
Old ref: NARC-772D76
Filename: NARC-772D76 dd dolphin or Polden Hill brooch.JPG
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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/147533
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/147533/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/189170
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Object location52° 13′ 08.04″ N, 0° 59′ 07.93″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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