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Description: | Unusual highly decorative Roman copper alloy crescent type Aesica brooch, 1st century, upper part only. The spring and pin are missing from the semi-circular sectioned concave wings. There is a sub-rectangular cut out at the centre of the bottom of the wings. There is slightly backwardly curved flat-sectioned knop protruding from the centre of the head. The end of each wing is decorated with two raised lines, each decorated with transverse lines, with an undecorated plain band between. There is an upwardly pointing triangle filled with punched dots at the centre of the wings (by the start of the bow). The wide and sharply curved trapezoidal bow is decorated with an engraved design based around a downward pointing triangle with a ring and dot motif on either side - this is reminiscent of late Iron Age designs. There may be a trace of white-metal coating at the top of the bow. The bow ends in a sharp point, which would have attached it to the rest of the brooch. Length 27.86mm, width (across wings) 32.41mm, width (across bow) 21.92mm, thickness (front of bow to back of wings) 17.08mm, weight 14.48g.
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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