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Description: | Incomplete Roman copper alloy plate brooch, missing its hinged pin and the curl of its catchplate. It consists of a square c.14x14mm with rounded corners, concave at its reverse, and with a flat round lug extending from each of its four corners. Each lug has a hollowed area, which probably once held enamel (no traces survive) and the lug which hides the catchplate is rather more oval than round, perhaps to hide the length of the catchplate. The pin would have been held between two semi-circular lugs. A c.11mm diameter circular layer - like a boss - lies on top of the square, at the centre of which is a knobbed projection incised with a '+' motif when the brooch is viewed with the hinge mechanism to the top. Behind the opposing lug there is the remains of a catchplate, missing its curl. Length from hinge-lug to catchplate-lug is 33mm, width 30mm. Hattatt (1989) lists only four other known examples, although there are no doubt a few more recorded by now. Two of these examples have stylised Celtic faces in place of the boss (Hattatt nos.1656 & 1276A). The other two he mentions (not published) are from Nor'nour, Scilly, and Caerwent, Gwent. He dates them to the 2nd century AD. | Subjects: | plate | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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