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Description: | The leg and foot from a broken cast copper-alloy Roman T-shape brooch (1st/2nd century AD). Judging by parallels (quoted below) around half of the brooch survives. It tapers gradually from the break to the bow (W.: 6.15mm) to the seemingly broken terminal (W.: 2.2mm). The object is therefore broadly triangular in plan. Its upper surface features incised linear borders that follow the sides. At the centre of the bow the sides are decorated by triangular nicks. Within the zone between the nicks are pairs of abutting triangular removals whose points meet; these may have once been inlaid with enamel. The old break goes through one of two such pairs of removals. This decorative treatments can be seen on brooches illustrated in Hattatt (2000, 304; refs. 935, 410). The upper surface of the bow is otherwise plain apart from the borders. On both parallels quoted the foot ends in a terminal knob; this has been broken off on this example. On the lower surface, the triangular catch-plate survives well, apart from abrasions at the fold. Its web extends c. 19.2mm up the leg in total.
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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