Copper-alloy, 30.68/56.74 grams, 147.91/140.5 mm. 5th-6th century AD. A fine large pair of slender radiate-headed bow brooches from Visigothic Spain, used as a pair but not perfectly matched in decoration. On the shorter example, the headplate is pentagonal, with a small lobe at each corner, the upper lobe larger than the others. The headplate is divided into four fields: an outer border of pellets; a medial band with stamped punchmarks in the form of an arc; two lateral bands of stamped elliptical motifs, and flanking these two bands of punched triangular motifs. The D-section bow extends to an elangated sub-triangular footplate with two lateral lobes; its decoration recalls that of the headplate, with a medial band of opposed triangular punchmarks flanked by punched arcs developing into an extension with punched arc ornamentation. The edges are decorated with punched pellets. The terminal consists of a transverse ribbed collar and finial hemisphere. The longer brooch differs in the details of the headplate design: an external pelletted border with three longitudinal bands of punched arcs, each flanked by a pelletted border. Its footplate is decorated with punched outward-facing arcs interspersed with pellets, and its terminal is an animal-head with eye-and-nostril detailing. The catchplate and spring-lug are present on the reverse, as well as a pierced lug for the attachment of a securing chain. Reference: Reynal, R. La Vida a Egara durant el segle VI - Els Visigots a Catalunya, Barcelona, 1993. Good very fine condition, the shorter brooch was damaged in antiquity and has been repaired.