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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy 2nd-century Roman disc brooch. The circular brooch has ?ten plain peripheral lugs emerging from a flat outer border. The body of the brooch is concave (dished). The lower surface is plain and features a truncated double semicircular pin lug at one end and a semicircular catch-plate at the other; the pin is missing. The upper surface is finely scalloped within the border. Central in the field is a six-pointed star surrounded by six pellets between the rays; the detail is indistinct due to corrosion. The star is centrally perforated for a centre-boss, now missing. Also missing is the enamel which would have probably filled the field around the star. The brooch has corroded to a variable mid-green colour. It can be paralleled with examples illustrated in Hattatt (2000, 346; refs. 133, 1058), and from this database - NMS-40FD76. For Hattatt (1982, 143) this form was 'rare' and 'probably imported'.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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