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Description: | The brooch is a Roman Colchester Two-Piece of the T-shaped type. T-shape brooches date to the late first to mid second century AD (75 ? 150 AD). The brooch is made of cast copper alloy and is in complete.
In plan the brooch has short, narrow, tubular wings, which are decorated by a two longitudinal grooves on each wing. In profile the wings are sub-circular, with both ends of a cast copper alloy axis bar being clearly visible. The axis bar supports a cast copper alloy hinged pin which sits in a sub-rectangular recess on the reverse of the bow head. Only the top of the pin survives, the rest is missing. The top of the bow is slightly humped. At the centre of the hump, at the junction of the two wings is a large, sub-circular chain loop.
In profile, the bow takes a sharp downturn forwards from the head, to form a continuous curve right through to the foot. In plan, the bow is widest at the top (where the bow joins the wings), and then gradually tapers inwards towards to a blunt pointed foot. The upper part of the bow is sub-rectangular in plan and flat in cross-section. The front is plain except for a single oval cell in the centre. The cell is 10.4mm long by 6.0mm wide. In the centre of the oval cell is a raised lozenge shape with a circular cell in its centre. The lozenge shape is 6.8mm long and 6.9mm wide. The circular cell is 2.1mm in diameter. Possible traces of enamel survive in the cells although it is not possible to say what colour it is. Either side of the oval cell is a single, longitudinal groove which extends the length of the upper bow. At the junction of the upper bow and the bow leg is a central moulding. The moulding comprises of two widely spaced traverse ridges, either side of a larger, more pronounced central knurled ridge. Central mouldings are commonly used as decoration on trumpet brooches. Possibly elements of decoration from other types of brooches were chosen to decorate this one. The mouldings do not continue around the back of the bow. Only part of the bow leg and catchplate remain, due to a break across the bow. The front of the bow leg appears to be decorated by a median knurled rib. The foot, remaining bow leg and rest of the catchplate are now missing.
The brooch is dark green in colour and is a fair condition. The base of the bow, where the bow leg is broken, is heavily abraded and light green in colour. The width of the brooch across the wings is 20.2mm; the length from the chain loop to the base of the bow is 40.3mm. The thickness of the head is 10.6mm and its weight is 7.24g. | 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: | 75
150 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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