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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy chatelaine type plate brooch of Roman date. It is missing much of the plate, the catchplate, suspension bar, one bar lug and the pin due to old breaks. The plate is flat, and the surviving portion is sub-rectangular in plan. It has a domed central conical knob or boss with central projecting globular knop and 8 triangular cells, which is surrounded by a deep, broad circular groove. The 8 cells are filled with the remains of alternating orange and blue enamel. The plate above the domed area is missing due to old breaks, however most of the lower half survives intact and is decorated with numerous small cells that would have contained enamelling. Beneath the central domed area is a transverse band of decoration that borders the lower edge of the plate. This contains five triangular cells and six corresponding inverted triangular enamel cells, three of which contain traces of blue enamel. Above this lower border of enamelling and to either side of the central boss are further cells. These comprise a semi-circular cell containing blue enamel at each exterior edge, with semi-circular 'petals' radiating from the groove around the central boss and gradually increasing in size towards the middle of the plate. Further traces of blue enamel can be sen in some of these cells. At the base of the plate is preserved a single integral, and slightly globular, rectangular lug with a central circular perforation to hold the now missing suspension bar. The corresponding lug on the opposite side of the plate is missing due to old breaks.
The back face of the plate is flat with the exception of a hollow/concave area behind the central domed area. At the bottom end of the back face is an integral double lug from which the pin would have hinged, the very bottom end of which is still preserved between the two lugs, but terminates very quickly in old breaks.
The entire brooch measures 27.68mm in width, 23.23mm in length, 1.98mm in thickness, and weighs 5.86g.
This is a fragment from a Roman plate brooch of Chatelaine type dating to between the 1st and mid-3rd centuries AD (c.80-250 AD). It would have originally held a small transverse suspension bar from which would have hung toilet articles such as tweezers, and it is probable that the now missing upper half of the plate would have been rounded with projecting integral lugs. Similar examples can be seen in Hattatt (1989: nos. 603, 1801-1802), who notes that this type of brooch appears to be native to Britain and largely confined to the south of the country (Hattatt, 1985: 169-170). | Subjects: | Chatelaine Plate | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Brown, Andrew | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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