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Description: | Upper part of a Roman cast copper alloy openwork plate brooch of composite geometric shape. The brooch is flat and has a semi-circular upper part with a raised horizontal strip across the middle and two stubs of a further shape below the strip. There is an incomplete circular head loop at the top of the semi-circular section. The loop has worn thorugh at the top with an old break. The front of the semi-circular part is recessed for enamel, although no enamel now survives. The horizontal strip has raised upper and lower edges and a raised zig-zag line running along the middle, in the indented areas above and below the zigzag are rows of small triangular indents. At each end of the strip and stepped back in thickness are worn circular tabs with double raised circles on them, the recessed areas between the circles may also have held enamel. On the lower side of the strip, just stepped in from either end are short worn stubs, possibly part of a triangular lower part. The back is plain with a raised square at the top, below the headloop with one raised lug rising from it at 90 degrees, this lug has a flat top, rounded sides and a circular hole through it. There is the possible remains of a second lug on the opposite side of the raised square. A cross bar would have run between the two lugs to hold the head of the pin. It is 23.9mm long, 24.5mm wide, 3.1mm thick excluding the lug, 5.7mm including, it weighs 3.1 grams.Plate brooches of elaborate form such as this usually date to the second and early third centuries (100-225 AD). Hattatt (2000:354) illustrates a brooch with a similar semi-circular upper part but solid lower part, no.1126. He also illustrates other examples with solid upper semi-circles and openwork lower parts (no.1607 and 1127).
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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