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Description: | Beautiful complete Roman gilded plate brooch with glass centre-boss. The spring (4 coils), sharp pin (still moveable) and catchplate (8mm deep) are intact. The reverse of the brooch is flat with traces of a silver metal, ?solder. The entire front surface of the brooch has been gilded, almost all of which is preserved. The decoration consists of three separate oval bands surrounding the central 7mm high conical dark-glass boss. The outermost of these is bounded by moulded ribs, one of which outlines the edge of the brooch, and both of which follow the oval shape of the centre-boss. The decoration appears to be a series of Xs, touching at the shoulders, eg. XXXXXXXX and creating between them a lozenge shape. The next band of 'decoration' is bordered by a moulded rib and an incised line, and appears to be plain, the gilded surface being flat. The final band, immediately encircling the centre-boss, is decorated with smaller Xs, that are probably actually pairs of triangles, point to point, again creating a lozenge between each pair. The boss itself has a miniscule chip to its conical point and is held by a gilded copper alloy band. Maximum length is 36mm, maximum width is 29mm.Cf Hattatt nos.173, 643 & 1647.Although the spring is not as neat as it could be, and the axis bar is rather clumsily bent round above the spring (perhaps indicative of a mend?), this is a wonderful find.2nd century AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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