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Description: | Cast copper alloy incomplete Roman headstud brooch with a stud on the front of the bow as well as at the top of the head between the wings. There is also what looks like the base of a headloop. The wings are badly corroded so that it is impossible to say what they may have looked like and how long they were, but there appears to be a transverse moulded ridge on the left wing, just beyond the junction of the bow and wing. The lower half of the bow and the foot are missing, as is the iron pin, apart from the remains of the hinge end, set into the back of the wings.From the profile and the potential length of the wings, this could also be a T-shaped brooch.Hattatt (2000) illustrates a T-shaped brooch on page 303, No.404, which bears similarities, dated from the 1st to the 2nd century AD, and a headstud brooch on page 333, No.942, dated to the 2nd century AD.Butcher (2001) illustrates some unusual examples from Nornour on the Isles of Scilly, on page 25, Fig.9, Nos.313 & 314.Quinnell (2004) illustrates a similar T-shaped brooch with a headstud on page 70, Fig.46, No.2, which is dated from the 1st to the 2nd 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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