bow brooch
- Museum number
- 1922,0204.1
- Description
-
Sheet silver bow brooch, pair to no 2; pentagonal head-plate with two applied copper alloy pin fittings secured at sides by folded copper alloy strip; five ribbed copper alloy terminal knobs (including one at top of plate); spatulate foot, the lower end missing, with a repoussé knob on left; traces of appliqués and two rivet holes in plates at each end of bow.
- Production date
- 5thC
- Dimensions
-
Length: 10.50 centimetres (surviving)
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager 'Summary Catalogue' (draft MS)
Published:
SMITH R.A. 1923. A Guide to the Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic Antiquities in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities. London, p. 170, fig. 224
WERNER J. 1961b. Katalog der Sammlung Diergardt (Völkerwanderungszeitlicher Schmuck) I Die Fibeln. Berlin, p. 28 no. 96
KÜHN H. 1974. Die germanischen Bügelfibeln der Völkerwanderungszeit in Süddeutschland, 2 vols, Graz, p. 526 nos. 39-40, pl. 221:51,39, 40
Pair with 1922,0204.2
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1922
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1922,0204.1
