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Description: | A copper alloy Roman umbonate plate brooch fragment. It is incomplete due to old breaks. It is circular with three small semi-circular lugs protruding from the circumference and evenly spaced around it, suggesting space for a further three on the missing part of the brooch. There is a channel defined by a concentric circle, 3.7mm wide which separates the rim from the central domed area. There is decoration in the form of grooved lines outlining eight regular petal shapes which extend from the centre of the dome down to the outer channel. There are no surviving traces of enamel, which would be expected on a brooch of this type. It measures 20.43mm in diameter (excluding lugs)5.23mm in height, and weighs 3.51g. Examples from Hattatt with similar knops include nos 1064 and 1065. These also have petal patterns, but with cinqfoils rather than the eight petals of this example. The Hattatt examples have almost straight sides between the lugs, giving an octagonal appearance whilst this Stoke Ash brooch is more rounded in outline.
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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