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Description: | A copper alloy bow brooch of rosette type. This brooch is a very well preserved and almost complete example of its type. The wings of the brooch are formed from thin sheet metal rolled around the spring and with a central transverse slot for the protruding pin. A small disk of metal, an end cap, remains in situ in the right wing. The short high arched bow and the foot are decorated with moulded reeding. Two circular sheet metal disks are applied one on top of the other; they both locate in a notch around a circular 'step' in the middle of the brooch body. The first disk is flat and is decorated with concentric incised rings around its outer edge. The second outer disk is shaped, perforated and embellished with incised ornament. This disk has suffered damage, possibly in antiquity, and approximately one third is missing. The catchplate is complete and decorated with two sub-square perforations. The pin has lost its tip and has been resharpened in antiquity, however it still reaches the catchplate and so the brooch was fully functional.Rosette brooches are a form imported into Britain from occupied Gaul in the first half of the 1st Century AD. They are material evidence of the cultural upheaval already occuring prior to the Roman conquest of 43 AD. Worn by those able to afford to acquire luxury Gallo-Roman imports, these highly decorated and distinctive brooches certainly offered a fashionable alternative to the rather plain native La Tene III and early Colchester brooch forms current in Britain at that time.The brooch is almost identical in every respect to a brooch found in a wealthy cremation grave excavated at the King Harry Lane cemetery, outside Verulamium (St Albans) illustrated on page 82 'Britain and the Celtic Iron Age', James & Rigby, British Museum Press, 1997.
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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