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Description: | A cast copper-alloy Roman knee brooch. Typically, this is a small brooch with a semi-circular head. The bow is of semi-circular section with a flat reverse; it thickens towards the protruding foot. Below the head is the double lug spring housing. It still contains the spring on its axis bar. The spring has four coils, including that which turns into the pin. The pin, however, has mostly been lost. The (vertical) catchplate is slightly abraded and is on the same alignment as the head. In this constructional detail this brooch differs from an example illustrated in Hattatt (1982, 116; ref. 94) which is otherwise a close parallel; the Hattatt example has a headplate at an open rather than horizontal angle. Less elaborately decorated than the Hattatt example, this brooch appears to have similarly featured a median strip, possibly of silver; the head may also have once been decorated, possibly with an enamel panel. Roman, 2nd or 3rd 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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