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Description: | A worn and incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman brooch of the Hod Hill type, Hattatt's Class B (with side knobs/lugs). At the head is half of the open cylinder with axis bar extant; the other half has been lost as a result of old damage. As a result the pin is also missing. Below the open cylinder the head tapers to a width of 6.25mm. The main body of the brooch is trapezoidal in shape with a pair of knobs, one either side, lower. The body expands from a width of 9.5mm at the head end, to a maximum width of 25.6mm, measuring across the knobs. Thereafter it decreases to a width of 14.6mm. It is decorated by a transverse groove at the head end, below which are four longitudinal grooves decorating the main field; these latter continue into the side knobs. The longitudinal grooving is quite crude, in so far as the ridges created are of differing widths and are not aligned with the main longitudinal axis of the brooch. There are also fine tranverse incisions on the ridges created by the grooving. Below the main body is a junction element before the foot begins. This element is 6.8mm wide, narrowing to 5.9mm at it narrowest point. It consists of a large tranverse groove creating a pair of ridges, one below the body, the other above the foot. The foot is a truncated lozenge shape, with the widest point (7.6mm) closer to the body than foot terminal. It is therefore narrower at terminal end: 2.6mm wide, compared with 4.7mm at the body end. The foot retains a large amount of the tinning which would have covered the whole of the upper surface; other obvious traces survive on the head and on the side knobs. The brooch terminates in a prominent foot knob, the shape of an inverted mushroom, with a transverse groove creating a ridge at the lozenge end. The lower surface is undecorated and features an abraded sub-triangular catchplate, 20.6mm in length, running from the junction element to the foot knob. In profile the brooch is a shallow S-shape. It is been bent, struck down at the head, and the side knobs have been bent - one upwards and one downwards. Hattatt (1982, 89) describes this Class B of Hod Hill brooches as a common military type.
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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