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Description: | Roman Brooch: Incomplete cast copper alloy umbonate brooch with enamel decoration. The brooch has a domed circular centre with the remains of four projecting lugs protruding at right angles from the perimeter. Two of these lugs carry the remnants of the hinged pin and catchplate mechanism whilst the other two would have bee purely decorative. Whether the perimeter of the brooch had further smaller projections, as can be typical of this type of brooch, is unclear due to wear. The central domed roundel is decorated with two concentric circles of small trianglular cells. The outer circle is of white enamel and the inner circle is of red enamel. The raised copper alloy fields separating the enamelled cells appear as a central star within a sun motif with the spaces between the points of these forming the triangular cells for the enamel. The centre of the star has a single circular cell which may have also carried enamel although the colour of this is now unclear.Brooches of this type are typically dated AD. 100-250 and have been found throughout England.
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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