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Description: | Roman cast copper alloy sandal type skeumorphic plate brooch. The brooch has an outline in the shape of an elongated sandal sole with the rounded heel at the top, a narrowed instep, expanded 'ball' of the foot and a pointed toe. It is lop-sided and probably supposed to represent a right foot. The flat plate has a raised border around a plain flat centre which originaly held enamel, now missing. At the head there is a circular flat knop it is corroded but appears complete and has no evidence of piercing. On the back is a double hinge lug with a seperate copper alloy spindle and pierced plate from the head of the hinged pin still in situ. The bent top of the catchplate has been lost to old breaks, the remainder is 7.8mm long. It is 38.2mm in total lengh, 9.0mm wide and 1.4mm thick excluding the catchplate and hinge, 5.2mm including; it weighs 2.38 grams. Skeumorphic plate brooches of a wide variety of forms were popular in the 2nd century AD. This example is similar to Hattatt (2001) p.58 no.1139 from Norfolk which also had a solid knops rather than a loop at the top as is more usual. Some examples have raised cast pellets to represent hobnails but in others this is indicated by different coloured enamels.
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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