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Description: | A cast copper alloy headstud brooch dating to the Roman period. The object is incomplete and is T-shaped with tubular wings. The wings are decorated with a diagonal groove on either side of the head and a vertical groove at each end of the wings. The head is sub-rectangular in cross-section and extends downwards from the centre of the wings. In the centre of the head is a semi-oval recess which is perforated. The head and incomplete perforation terminates with a break. The brooch is a hinged example and the pin is missing.Separate to the incomplete brooch is a small dog at the base of which is a circular sectioned integral rivet. This would have been secured to the head of the brooch through the incomplete perforation forming the headstud. The dog has a pointed snout and a raised pointed oval ears. Along the rounded back of the dog are two moulded ridges. The dog measures 15mm in length and 12mm in height, including the rivet. It measures 1.3gBoth the brooch and headstud have been coated in a white metal. Similar examples can be found in plate 71, p74, Mackreth volume 2, (2011). Mackreth classifies these brooches as type 2b, headstud brooches with dogs on the upper part of the bow. He notes that these brooches occur in East Anglia and the East Midlands, (ibid).
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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