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Description: | A cast copper-alloy Roman T-shape brooch dating to around the early 2nd century AD. The brooch is incomplete, largely missing its pin, but is otherwise in good condition.
The head features thick plano-convex wings with the decorated flat face uppermost. They both have a pair of decorative transverse incisions. The wings largely obscure the axis bar around which the pin would have been hinged; traces of iron corrosion visible in profile centrally, as well as staining around the pin slot reveal the composition of the axis bar. The hinged terminal of the copper-alloy pin survives, detached. Protruding from the front of the head is a small chain loop (W.: 4.65mm).
The turn into the upper bow is through ninety degrees. The upper bow is wide and the main field decorated with an arrangement of six recessed cells, two wide by three long. When looking at the brooch with the head uppermost, the top right cell retains blue enamelling; the top left cell retains a white substance, possibly fixative. This pattern continues in alternate cells, with blue enamel surviving completely and the white substance present respectively. Below, at the bow centre, is a prominent 'button', flanked above and below by ridges with a central transverse depression. The button itself is decorated in a downwards 'V' shape formed of two diagonal incisions.
The leg is faceted such that it is of triangular cross-section. The edges appear to be decorated with longitudinal incisions. The leg terminates in a ridge; there is then a groove before the raised footknob. On the reverse, the catchplate survives well and travels 19.95mm up the leg in total.
This brooch has a close parallel in a T-shape brooch found in Salisbury which can be seen illustrated in Hattatt (1987, 104-107; ref. 909). More broadly, this brooch can be classified as Hull's type 109. This example has corroded to a mid-dark, dull green patina. Traces of tinning survive all over, particularly on the lower bow; the example from Salisbury was also tinned (Hattatt 1987, 106). Because both the Salisbury example and another brooch recorded on this database ( " HAMP-08E354 ) have identical patternings of enamel beginning red-blue, it is suggested that this brooch may have shared this decorative motif. | Subjects: | T-shape | 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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