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Description: | Copper alloy equal ended lozenge shaped brooch. Two pieces, with a recent break; missing the catchplate end of the brooch and both side knobs and most of pin. The front surface has traces of white metal. The pin is hinged on two close set lugs. The flat lozenge body is arched in profile, thickens slightly in a central panel and has transverse ribs and terminal knobs at the corners. The centre panel has three punched dot in disc motifs. Surviving length (re-joined) 28mm, surviving width 21mm. Type as Hattatt no.1114 (to which it is very similar in detail) and Riha 1979 no. 1640; a Continental type and probably 1st or early 2nd century. | 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: | 43
120 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Jude Plouviez | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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