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Description: | Copper alloy Roman brooch dating from 1st-2nd century. The brooch is a trumpet derivative and a close parallel can be seen in Hattatt?s Visual Catalogue, Fig.189, No.989. The brooch would have had a hinge mechanism and a headloop although this has been broken off. The head of the brooch is sub-rectangular in shape and, like a trumpet brooch, flares slightly. The bend in the bow of the brooch is quite flat and just over halfway down to the foot there is a flat, square shaped plate which protrudes at either side of the bow. This is cast integrally and is decorated with a transverse groove along the top and bottom and four small rectangular indentations in a horizontal row across the middle of the plate. These are likely to have contained coloured enamel at one time but there is none surviving. Below the plate there is another groove on the front of the bow, which then flares out to form a triangular shaped foot. This had a triangular shaped indentation, again this may have contained enamel. The back of the brooch is undecorated and all that remains of the catchplate is a very worn rib. The brooch weighs 4.91g and measures 38.6mm in length and 11.78mm in width. | 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: | 1
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Marshall | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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