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Description: | Copper alloy zoomorphic brooch, "rabbit with young" type. It is missing the pin and the front half of the head and the catchplate and an ear are damaged. The pin was hinged between two close set lugs, with corrosion products perhaps suggesting an iron hinge bar. The back of the plate is flat, the front convex. The hinge is angled so that it is visible from the front at the back of the body. Slight traces only of enamel survive in the two small rabbit cells which face each other and are separated by a six-line star, mostly deeply incised. Surviving length 23.5mm, height 17mm, plate 2.3mm thick.
This is a Continental type of brooch, as Hattatt no. 1632, which he suggests dates from the 1st century AD. Although mostly hares are depicted on brooches this type looks more like a rabbit. | 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
200 | 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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