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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy 1st century Romano-British brooch. One wing of this brooch is complete whilst the other is truncated. They are semicylindrical and plain. The head of the brooch has suffered some damage and the method of fixing the spring is completely missing. This area is now worn smooth suggesting this damage occurred in antiquity. There is a small pointed projection at the bottom of the centre of the wings that could be construed as the bottom of a transverse lug. However the head of the brooch is too damaged to suggest whether there was a hook of any kind. The spring and pin are entirely missing. The bow of the brooch is flattened and semicircular in section. It tapers towards the foot, which is complete without a foot knob. The curled catchplate is intact, with a filed recess and has a number of subrectangular and subtriangular perforations. The 'curl' is set at a sharp right angle to the rest of the catch. The patina of the object is dark green. The brooch is 63.88mm long, 21.04mm wide across the remains of the wings, 6.38mm wide across the bow, 2.72mm thick and weighs 10.04g. This is possibly a two piece Colchester type brooch. Brooches of this type date from between 50-70AD. Examples can be seen in Hattatt 1985, figure 12.
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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