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Description: | A cast copper-alloy Roman headstud brooch. The wings are semi-cylindrical with a central perforated vertical lug on the reverse. This lug supports a copper alloy axis bar around which the spring is coiled, three coils and the pint to the left of the lug and four coils to the right. Only a fragment of the pin survives, the pin terminates to a sharp point; it doesn't appear to be a recent break. The wings are decorated on the outer face with three transverse ridges. The bow head is sub-square in section and protrudes from the centre of the wings, tapering to form the bow. The bow head graduates to the bow with a circular knop at the apex, which is the headstud. The headstud is abraded. Below the headstud the bow is sub-rectangular in section and the outer face is decorated with three rectangular cells. The upper and lower cell have traces of red enamel, the middle cell has traces of a light grey/green. The bow terminates with a broken edge, but this break is not too recent, but was probably done by the plough. The brooch has an abraded surface with traces of a mid green patina. It measures 28.19mm long, 18.88mm wide across the wings and weighs 10.5g.The brooch is a Roman headstud type, which in her "Roman Brooch Timeline" (2007), Worrell dates headstud brooches to AD75-AD200. A similar example is illustrated in Hattat (Hattat, R 1982 Ancient and Romano-British Brooches Oxbow) No. 33.In November 2011 the lower portion of this brooch was recorded, WAW-A80AF1.
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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