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Description: | A cast copper alloy Roman knee brooch. The head plate is a vertical semi-circular plate which is decorated on the outer face with a crescentic cell. The cell has traces of red enamel. The reverse of the head plate has two parallel, integral perforated lugs. The perforations support a copper alloy axis bar. Around this bar the spring is coiled, forming three coils and only a fragment of the pin remains on the fourth coil. The bow is an ??S?? shape in profile which is indicative of the brooch being a knee brooch. In section the bow is an elongated semi-circle. The reverse of the lower portion of the brooch has an integral catchplate. The surface has a well developed dark green patina. It measures 32.74mm long, 11.55mm wide and 3.9g.
Knee brooches are described by Bayley & Butcher (2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries, page 179) as Late Bow Brooches and are a continental type, best known from the forts of the German limes. The authors state that knee brooches were also found in forts in Britain but have a wider distribution; ??some types seem to be British products and to be decorative rather than utilitarian??. Worrell (Worrell, S. 2007 ??Roman Brooch Timeline?? North-West PAS Newsletter) dates these to between 150 to 250 AD. | Subjects: | Knee | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bolton, Angie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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