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Description: | A worn, incomplete and damaged cast copper-alloy Roman brooch of the Hod Hill type, Hattatt's Class B (with side knobs/lugs). However, this is still an interesting example for its degenerate appearance suggests possible indigenous manufacture in imitation of other 'tighter' forms of 1st-century Hod Hill brooches.
At the head is the open cylinder, slightly broken as it curves round (W.: 17.15mm), with remains of the (iron?) axis bar surviving in both halves, either side of the central pin slot. The pin is missing. Below the open cylinder the head incurves to a width of 8.9mm. The head continues at a similar width over a further 12mm, widening slightly at each of three decorative moulded transverse low ridges. The main body of the brooch is trapezoidal in shape, and would have had a pair of knobs, one either side, lower; only that to the left when looking at the brooch with the head uppermost now survives. The main body expands from a width of 15.3mm at the head end, to a maximum width of 25mm, measuring across the extant knob to the other, broken side. Thereafter it decreases to a width of 11mm as the leg begins. The main bow is decorated by five longitudinal grooves which create four ridges; the surviving side knob features a further two longitudinal grooves (three ridges). Below, the leg tapers gradually to 4.2mm at the (broken) foot. It is decorated with further grooving: five transverse grooves and ridges. The lower surface is undecorated and features an abraded sub-triangular catchplate, 18.3mm in length, which nonetheless survives largely intact. In profile one can see that the brooch has been struck on a number of occasions in the past, both laterally and longitudinally, thus distorting its original shape. The brooch has a consistent, dark brown patina and bears no evidence of tinning or any other adornment. Its appearance, leathery, almost reptilian, does not bear any resemblance to forms illustrated in the main corpuses, hence the suggestion of Romano-British, or at least non-official, manufacture. | Subjects: | Class B Hod Hill | 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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