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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy enameled zoomorphic (Duck) brooch of early Roman date, probably 2nd Century AD (100 - 200 AD).
The body of the brooch is sub-ovoid (egg) shape in plan, with a convex bowed or D shaped profile. The back of the brooch is concave and hollow. At the wider end there is an integral neck, which is solid, circular in cross-section and terminates with a simple yet life-like duck head and flat beak.
The eyes of the duck are represented by two blue enamelled pellets. The surface of the ducks back is very worn and pitted, and decorated with two rows of seven recessed cells flanking a central row of six smaller crescentric cells. The flanking cells are also roughtly crescentric and become progressively smaller towards the tail end. The central line of crescents are aligned so that the curve points down towards the tail end, whereas the flanking crescents curve in the opposite direction towards the head-end. Only a few of these cells now contain enamel, which appears to be alternating colours of blue and red.
The enamelled decoration terminates at the tip of the tail with an heart-shaped band filled with red enamel. Within the heart there are two small pellets of blue enamel. There are possibly two further smaller crescents beyond this, however the surface is very worn and the detail is unclear. The entire perimeter of the body is defined by a small channel.
There is an integral catchplate underneath the head of the duck, and a single pin lug at beneath the tail end. The copper alloy pin is intact. | 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: | 100
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Adam Daubney | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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