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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy zoomorphic Roman plate brooch. This brooch takes the form of a horse, perhaps more unusually without a rider and is semicircular in section, i.e. the back is flat and the front slightly domed. The body of the horse is decorated with a row of four sunken dots filled with traces of enamel. The dot nearest the rump now appears orangey yellow in colour, followed by a green dot, followed by another orangey yellow dot and finishing with a bright blue dot by the shoulder. Apart from the blue, these colours are faded and degraded. The neck of the horse is decorated with a series of incised ring and dots, and it is just possible to make out the separately moulded mane. The front leg of the animal is raised as if rearing up, and is truncated at the knee. The rear leg is in a normal standing position and also truncated at the knee. The tail is broken. The reverse of the brooch has two pin bar lugs, now broken, running horizontally along the reverse of the rump. The catchplate is broken and positioned to run parallel along the reverse of the front leg. The patina of the brooch is mid grey with flashes of cream. Some breaks are worn smooth, suggesting they occurred in antiquity, whilst some are rough and cream coloured, suggesting they occurred in the more recent past. The brooch is 25.42mm long from head to tail, 13.62mm high, 2.44mm thick and weighs 2.13g. An example of a horse brooch can be seen in Jackson, 1990, Camerton, number 116. Brooches of this type date to between the mid first to mid 2nd century.
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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