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Description: | Part of a 1st century Roman plate brooch, dating from AD50-150. It is cast from copper alloy and is decorated with coloured enamel. The front of the brooch has a small circular hole at the centre where there would have originally been a protruding knop - this may have been cast separately and therefore has been lost from the brooch. The decoration on the brooch is in the shape of a sun with radiating curved arms. It is similar to the 'leaf garland' decoration found on similar early plate brooches from France (as cited in Hattatt 'Ancient Brooches and other Objects'). The enamel in the sun design is bright orange and there are traces of blue enamel around the edge of the brooch. On the reverse the remains of a double pin bar lug can be seen, but the pin is missing. Similar brooches are illustrated in Hattatt, Visual Catalogue, figure 201, numbers 588,1016, 1017 and1556. The fragment is 26.9mm long, 21.1mm wide and 3.5mm thick. It weighs 4.63gm. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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