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Description: | A Roman incomplete cast copper alloy enamelled zoomorphic plate brooch in the shape of a sitting cockerel dating from the 2nd Century AD. It is piriform in plan, rounded at the front and slightly pointed at the back with a domed upper surface and is hollow on the underside. The head is above the rounded end and the tail is above the pointed end. The head is flat and sub-circular in profile and has a comb on top but with no defining points; there is little of the beak surviving. The eyes are made from a punched ring-and-dot motif. The bird's rounded front is undecorated. Each side of the bird's back has three possible linear cells, some angled back like feathers. These would have been inlaid with enamel and there is a small amount of blue enamel surviving on one side. The arrangement is very similar to that on a brooch illustrated in Crummy (1983, 16; ref. 75). The sickle type tail is largely missing due to an old break but the remaining stub has the remains of a circular perforation.Below the tail, on the underside of the body, there is a double rounded pin in which a small axis bar and the iron pin survive in situ.The brooch measures 36.67mm in length, 10.28mm wide and 24.6mm high. It weighs 7.9 grams.This brooch has corroded to a variable mid-green with small areas of a surviving brown patina. In the areas where the surface patina has been removed, probably due to abrasion. These areas should be monitored to help prevent active copper corrosion (bronze disease) from occurring. Active copper corrosion is bright green and is powdery. In order to reduce this from occurring, it is recommended that the brooch is stored with acid free paper, in a secure, sealed dry box (such as a Stewart or similar tupperware box), containing silica gel.A similar brooch can be found illustrated in Hattatt (2000, 360; ref. 167), with another recorded on this database from Calbourne CP (Isle of Wight), ref. IOW-E88B94.
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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