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Description: | Complete cast copper alloy one piece Roman bow brooch of 1st century AD date. The brooch is worn has some slight pitting towards the base of the bow. It has a dull copper-brown patina, with slight corrosion on the spring and pin. It is possibly a variant of the Hod Hill type, which would date the brooch to 60-70AD (Hattatt 1987, p76). However, the brooch does not have any direct parallels in this class. It is more likely that the brooch is an example or variation of the continental 'Kraftig-profilierte' type. A brooch of a similar design can be seen in Crummy 1987, p10 no 37. The shape and decoration of the bow, footplate and catch strongly resembles this example. However, the rolled headplate is not as prominent in the Colchester example. 'Kraftig-profilierte' brooches date from circa 15-120AD on the continent, and they are likely to have entered Britain with the army, as they are common finds in on the Rhine-Danube frontier. The brooch type is believed to be of Pannonian origin. The catchplates are usually triangular and can have up to three perforations. Examples from Britain are rarely perforated, and are believed to be later in the series than perforated examples. Non-perforated examples are possibly British copies of the continental type (Bayley & Butcher 2004, p59 & 148).
The brooch has a flat widened head that is rolled forward to hold the axis bar of the sprung pin. The axis bar is the widest point on the brooch, measuring 28.47mm across. There is no gap in the rolled head for a pin lug (Hod Hill brooches usually have a space for the pin lug), however there is a single, central lug situated behind the head that encompasses the spring. The pin is intact, however is slightly bent. The bow is wide at the top to accommodate the width of the head and narrows towards a moulded globule at its base. This globule encircles the bow, including the reverse. Apart from this moulding, the bow is plain and undecorated. The bow is curved, and is a shallow 'D' shape in profile. Below the moulded globule is a rectangular foot, which curves slightly upwards towards an integrally moulded spherical terminal knob with a smaller raised dome at its tip. The foot is also decorated with a vertical line of small circular punchmarks. The worn and broken catchplate is not perforated, and is attached to the reverse of the foot. It has a flat base and side, and the broken top edge may have been straight or slightly curved, and would have originally attached to the foot just below the moulding at the base of the bow. The total length of the brooch is 49.45mm, and it is 19.97mm across from the apex of the bow to the pin. | 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: | 40
120 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Laura McLean | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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