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Description: | Roman brooch; cast copper alloy Colchester brooch, probably a two-piece type, dating to the 1st century. The brooch has a long, narrow, elegantly tapering bow with no extant decoration. The catchplate is large and mostly still present. It has three cut-away holes giving a decorative openwork appearance to the plate. At the head of the brooch, the copper alloy of the bow is curled back on itself to give a loop. There is also a second loop behind the head, which presumably held the string for the sprung pin. There is a small, flat extension to either side of the head of the brooch which may be vestigial wings or may be the fixing plates for more elaborate composite wings.
Length 50.5mm, width 11.4mm, thickness 19.0mm, weight 5.48g
Ref: see the brooches on pages 296 and 297 (figs 155 and 156) of Hattatt, especially note brooch 1455 on page 297, which has the same vestigial wings as this example. Many of the Colchester brooches illustrated here have openwork decoration on the catchplate. | Subjects: | Colchester | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rohde, Anja | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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