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Description: | Copper alloy knee brooch. Complete; occasional areas of corrosion. A semicircular flat headplate has a projecting spring attachment behind, pierced for the axis bar and with a notch at the top for the chord. The spring has eight turns and the pin is 5mm longer than the brooch. The front of the headplate has incised wavy line (rocker) decoration just visible around the margin. A moulded flange marks the junction with the front of the bow. The bow has a slightly convex back, which curves smoothly from the base of the headplate. The bow front is rounded with a strong angle in profile at the top where it is widest; it tapers slightly to the foot which projects sharply. The catchplate is long, narrow and parallel sided. Length (excluding pin) 32mm, width 15.3mm. This is Hull type 172, Snape's 5.1.C but with a staighter bow and sharper foot than most examples. It is a Continental type, particularly associated with the Rhine frontier. Recovery of a completely intact example is unusual - it shares this and a probable Roman military context with several other brooches in this group. If definitely from a field in the suggested area a cemetery might be a possibility.
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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