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Description: | A damaged and incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman plate brooch (c. 1st century AD). The brooch is now sub-circular in form but was arguably piriform by comparison to similar, published examples (see below). There is a bilobed protrusion at one point of the circumference, with a broken one ninety degrees round from it, with scars at the other cardinal points suggesting old breaks. The complete protrusion lies above a double semicircular pin lug. The pin is missing, as is the protrusion (whatever its nature) which lay above the catch-plate. The centre of the main circular field has a stamped ring-and-dot motif. In the annular field around it is fine punched decoration in the form of three splayed V-shapes, the ends of which curl under themselves as scrolls, with a vertical line extending upwards from the point of the 'V'. The decoration of this brooch is unusual, yet has a parallel with a two piriform brooches illustrated in Hattatt (2000, 343; refs.1009 and 1010). Similar decorative treatment can also be found on a disc brooch found in Downton, Wiltshire, recorded on this database (ref. WILT-C44578). This brooch has a dark-green patina with small traces of tinning as with the Wiltshire example.One of the published examples is from Bicester, Oxfordshire, the other from Gaul. Hattatt (1987) comments he knows only of two others, one from Gaul and one from Germany, both piriform, and wonders if they are a native British product of the mid-1st century (based on the piriform or 'pear-like' shape). They have a piercing for a central riveted boss; no such perforation is present on this brooch.
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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