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Description: | Rather fine Aesica brooch of ??closed?? form. The wings are semi-cylindrical, open at the back for the (missing) spring, and with a rear-facing hook in the centre. There are traces of ?solder at either end of the spring channel. The front of each wing is decorated with a broad oblique groove with a narrow parallel groove just within it. There are traces of a second narrow groove at the end of the wing. The bow has similar decoration, of two broad vertical grooves each flanked by a pair of narrow grooves. The bow flares to the highest point of the curve and then tapers again sharply, with a point or vestigial knob at either corner. There is a circular backplate, rather thick and decorated with a grooved border. The foot is equally thick, and a flared triangle in shape, with hints of punched decoration around the edges. There is a thick and shiny white-metal coating over the flat parts of the brooch, and the broad grooves have a darker grey matt coating. Similar to Hattatt no. 798 (also found in East Anglia), but chunkier and I think rather better made. Hattatt felt that 798 was unfinished, lacking its applied crescent on the backplate, but the white-metal coating and border decoration of the circular backplate shows that this present example certainly was finished. Mid 1st century AD. | Subjects: | Aesica brooch closed-type | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Hinds, Katie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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