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Description: | Roman umbonate plate brooch fragment, copper alloy with blue enamel, roughly half of the brooch, 2nd century. Central five-petalled flower with raised rounded knop in the centre, each petal would probably originally have been filled with blue enamel, although enamel survives in only one "petal" now. This is surrounded by two concentric raised circles and arched cells radiate from the outer circle, again each cell is likely to have been filled with blue enamel, but this only survives in two cells now. There are equally spaced rounded knops around the edge - three survive, there were probably six originally plus a loop at a top and a larger projetion at the bottom. The loop at the top of the brooch is broken off. The pin hinge survives on the reverse of the brooch, although it is broken across the holes for the pin bar. Length (not quite diameter) 32.40mm, width 27.42mm, thickness (including hinge and central projection) c.12mm, weight 6.68g (the measurements are taken with the loop aligned at the top). Similar brooches are pictured in Hattatt's "Visual Catalogue" (2000) p350, in particular number 130 (from Hattatt's "Ancient and Romano-British Brooches", 1982). | Subjects: | umbonate plate brooch | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Atherton, Rachel - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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