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Description: | An incomplete and worn cast copper-alloy Roman plate brooch. It is missing its pin due to old breaks. The brooch has a flat disc shaped plate with triangular/fantail projection at the base and five evenly spaced projecting bilobate lobes around the outer edge. The front face of the disc has a border of three circumferential grooves and a central circular perforation that may originally have contained additional decorative elements but these are now missing due to old breaks. It has an extremely worn surface and it is uncertain whether this originally had an added white metal coating or similar decorative elements. The back face is flat and undecorated. At the top of the plate on the underside of one of the lobes is an integrally cast semi-circular double pin lug that has a transverse circular aperture and the remains of a corroded iron pin. On the back face of the fantail is an integral catchplate that is rectangular in form with folded outer edge. A slightly raised rectangular ridge connects the lug and catchplate. This brooch measures 30.56mm in length, 23.43mm in width, 1.46mm in thickness, and weighs 3.91g.This is an early Roman plate brooch of probable continental origin. It finds parallels in terms of decoration and the projecting lobes in examples of early plate brooches noted in Hattatt (1989: nos. 510, 1009-1010, 1560) although the fantail at the base more closely resembles Hattatt's Keyhole type Rosette brooches (Hattatt, 1989: nos. 632-633, 1472). Both indicate a probable date early in the Roman period, c.43-100 AD.
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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