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Description: | Copper alloy disc brooch, type with applied repousse plate. Missing spring, pin, applied plate and parts of the plate and catchplate; corroded. The spring was held on a single pierced lug. The plate is c. 0.7mm thick and has irregular areas of pale, probably lead alloy on the face which would have held a sheet copper alloy front piece. Diameter 34.5mm. The common motif for these brooches is an emperor addressing troops with a central eagle (the Ad Locutio type), another version has a single horseman to the right; the Ad Locutio type was particularly common at the Hockwold crowns site (Gurney 1986, EAnglian Archaeol 31) and at a similar unpublished site at Lackford, Suffolk (LKD 018). The present disc seems to be slightly larger in diameter than the Ad Locutios, and very close to another backing disc only ewxample from Hacheston (Blagg et al 2004, EAA 106, 104 no 185)
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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