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Description: | Cast copper alloy Roman disc brooch of probable second century AD date. The surface of the brooch was originally decorated with blue, yellow and red enamel which has survived in patches. The design of the brooch is sometimes referred to as 'sunburst' or 'starburst'. A number of examples of this brooch type have been recorded with PAS and many more elsewhere. The design is essentially a star with a variable number of points on a circular background, inside each point of the star is a pellet containing enamel and in the very centre of the star a ring of copper-alloy containing a further solid copper-alloy pellet in its centre with enamel in the space between. In this case the star is ten-pointed, the circular background outside the star is blue, the main body of the star is red, the pellets are yellow and the central circle of enamel is also yellow. On the reverse of the brooch are the remains of the fastening, namely the two upright lugs that would have held the hinged pin (now lost) and the upright of the damaged catch-plate.Ref: 'A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches', Fig. 203, 515, 119 & 1035, p.344.Dimensions: Diameter 22.9mm, brooch thickness 1.5mm, width from hinge lug to hinge lug 6.6mm, height of hinge lugs 4.3mm, height of catch-plate 7mm.
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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