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Description: | A Roman copper alloy brooch, consisting of an openwork trapezoid frame, with six circular knobs projecting from its outer edges, one on the short top edge, two on either side, and one on the long bottom edge. Five of the knobs retain a setting of white material (bone or ivory?), each with a small central hole. From the lower knob projects a zoomorphic terminal in the shape of an animal or bird head and neck. The head has ring-and-dot punchmarks as eyes, and the neck is decorated with transverse incised crescentic lines representing scales or feathers. This type of zoomorphic terminal is usually found on equal-ended brooches of the 2nd century AD. The brooch retains a copper alloy pin, attached to a loop on the rear of the topmost circular knob. An integral catchplate survives on the rear of the zoomorphic terminal. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 100
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Andrew Richardson | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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