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Description: | A late Roman cast copper alloy P-shaped brooch with a separate iron bar on which are attached a copper alloy spring and a pair of copper alloy terminals.The brooch has a flat tapering bow which has been extensively decorated with punched lines and circles. Similar decoration extends onto the catchplate which is bent upwards, and then the tapering tail of the catchplate has been secured by winding it around the base of the bow. The spring and pin, partly of iron, are separately-attached mechanisms attached through a hook at the head of the bow. Parallels for this brooch can be found in Roman Pannonia and Dacia, an area which covers much of present day Hungary and Romania, and into the Balkans. Similar brooches seem to appear from about the middle of the 3rd century . The brooch has no excavated parallels in Roman Britain.
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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