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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy disc brooch with traces of red enamel and a pierced lug on the reverse for a spring mechanism, suggesting a Roman date.
The brooch is circular in shape, 24.8mm in diameter and 1.9mm thick (max). It has a roughly 1.6mm wide rim following the outside edge of the brooch.
On the reverse is a pierced lug for the spring mechanism with the remains of the catchplate beneath, only a stump of which survives. It is 8.4mm in height. The lug has bent over to one side.
The design on the front of the brooch is unusual in that it is not symmetrical, as so many Roman plate brooch designs are. It shows a 1.3mm wide rib curving in a C shape. Corrosion and loss of patina obscures much of the pattern below this but two smaller curving areas are apparent below and to either side, one of which is defined by a rib. Possibly these represent leaves, but more likely is the triskel design. Cf. Allason-Jones and Miket 1984, p.119 nos.148-150.
The trace of red enamel is in the field surrounding the design, just inside the rim.
Weighs 3.92g.
Allason-Jones and Miket suggest the examples from South Shields Roman Fort date to the mid-1st century. Triskels were popular designs from the La Tene period onwards. Single pierced lugs appear to be a British design and are quite unusual. | 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
60 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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