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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Colchester derivative brooch of Roman date (43-150AD). The wings are semi-cylindrical with perforated wing / end caps. One of the wing caps is incomplete and the axis bar and spring are present. The spring is formed from a length of copper alloy wire which has been turned tweleve times and attached to the head of the brooch by both the axis par and an external chord to a rearward facing hook. The hook is actually more like a pierced lug / rib through which the chord passes. It is located at the centre of the wings on the upper edge of the head. The pin is missing. The reverse of the head of the brooch (between the two wings) has a sub-rectangular shaped recess. The bow head is hump-like, and slightly angular in profile. The bow is D shaped in cross section. It tapers to an abraded and much twisted pointed foot. The catchplate is partial and extends from a vertical rib which starts 2/3rds of the way along the bow of the brooch. The catch plate is sub-triangular, badly abraded and pierced with triangular perforated incomplete panels. The pin rest is formed by the edge of the brooch being rolled over to form a U shaped rest. The foot is pointed and has no foot knop. The brooch measures 64.2mm length, 29mm width (across wings), 7.6mm width across bow, is 4.4mm thick across the bow and weighs 14.65 grams. The brooch is much abraded and most of the external patina has been lost. In overall style the brooch is proportioned and elegant. It has been decorated with a number of cast curvi-linear lines which decorate the wing case and the bow of the brooch. These have been augmented in places by small incised horizontal lines / feathering around the ribs. The brooch is a dark brown colour with an even but much abraded patina. Where abrasion has occurred it is most evident on the external faces of the brooch. Here a light green active corrosion is present. Movement in the plough soil has also distorted the profile of the brooch, twisting and crushing certain elements. Similar brooches can be seen in Bayley and Butcher: Roman Brooches in Britain pp 82-92.
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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