A ROMAN SILVER CROSSBOW FIBULA, the arched bow in the form of a boar, with star, circle and dot decoration and terminating in a rectangular catchplate, the knobbed crossbow with enclosed spring, pin detached at spring end, circa 3rd-4th Century A.D.

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A ROMAN SILVER CROSSBOW FIBULA, the arched bow in the form of a boar, with star, circle and dot decoration and terminating in a rectangular catchplate, the knobbed crossbow with enclosed spring, pin detached at spring end, circa 3rd-4th Century A.D.
2 7/8in. (7.2cm.) long
Provenance
Hayward Collection

Lot Essay

EXHIBITED:
Bury St. Edmunds Museum 1983-1986
Ipswich Museum 1986-1990

Cf. J. P. C. Kent and K. S. Painter (eds), Wealth of the Roman World A.D. 300-700, The British Museum, London, 1977, p. 28, no. 23 for a similar crossbow fibula in the form of a horse or boar, 4th Century A.D.

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