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Description: | A fragment from a cast copper-alloy Roman brooch of the Hod Hill type, Hattatt's Class B (with side knobs/lugs). The fragment consists of the head and the bow with its side lugs.
There is a cylinder at the head, formed by rolling the terminal back round on itself, with a pin-slot cut in the centre. Below the cylinder the head incurves slightly to a minimum width of 9.2mm just above the bow. The head is angled at around forty-five degrees down from the bow; the latter curves shallowly downwards.
The main body of the brooch is broadly rectangular in shape, and features a pair of rounded decorative knobs, one either side, at the lowermost point of the bow. The bow is decorated by four longitudinal grooves (five ridges). There is also a pair of ridges on each side knob. The bow is 10.35mm wide at its junction with the leg. The leg itself has broken off, after three transverse ridge and groove decorations.
The brooch has a dark green patina over a dark red-brown metal, with tinning (the latter in the grooves on the bow and its junction with the leg).
Hattatt (1982, 89) describes this Class B of Hod Hill brooches as a common military type. | Subjects: | Hod Hill | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Creed, Kath - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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