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Description: | A gilded copper alloy button brooch. The brooch is circular with a shallow rim around the edge. Two opposing lugs on the reverse are a hooked catchplate and the remains of an attachment for the pin (now lost). There is a small circular depression in the centre of the reverse. The decoration on the upper side is in the form of a relatively naturalistic face. The nose continues upwards to a deep V-shape in the centre of a curving brow. There are wide, curving cheeks defining spaces for the oval, unevenly placed eyes. Two short, parallel, slightly downward curving lines define the mouth.
This brooch most closely resembles Class A (miscellaneous) of Avent and Evison's typology of button brooches (for example Plate XIV 39.1, although this is not an exact likeness). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Ghey, Eleanor - British Museum | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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