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Description: | A worn and incomplete cast copper-alloy plate brooch dating to the Roman period. The shape of the surviving element is sub-discoidal, with a number of protrusions around the edge. One can therefore only conjecture at an original shape for the brooch, although a number of brooches with similar lugs are broadly piriform (see for example Hattatt 1985, 136-139; refs. 509, 510). The lug shape in question is the truncated bilobe, which can be found on this example (see image, top). There is vestigial evidence for further lugs around the circumference, although much of this has been abraded and worn. Opposite the bilobial lug is a definite protrusion which features the remnant of the double pin lug on the reverse. Within this latter are traces of iron corrosion hinting at the composition of the former pin. The reverse is otherwise worn and featureless; the catchplate is absent. On the obverse the main circular element is bounded by a raised border (now abraded in parts) and a raised central circle. Within the recessed areas thus created the brooch would have been enamelled using the champlev?? technique. Traces of green enamel remain within the central circle. This brooch probably dates to the mid 1st century AD. | Subjects: | Plate | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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