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Description: | An incomplete and corroded cast copper alloy Romano-British repoussé brooch, dating from the early to late second century AD. The brooch is composite, the upper plate being seperate and soldered on to the base plate with a lead-alloy substance that can be seen through the damage to the top plate. The reverse plate retains part of the single pierced lug and the remains of the catch plate. The pin is missing. There is some damage to one edge of the brooch.The top plate is a thin sheet of copper alloy with an elaborate design in relief, made by pressing into a die (Mackreth 2011:154), most of which is now missing due to the damage and corrosion. Comparision with other examples (see ibid. plate 104) show that the design depicts an emperor on a rearing horse in front of soldiers bearing standards, and an eagle with open wings in the foreground. This is the adlocutio, or Imperial Address, where the emperor addresses his amassed troops in a moral boosting exercise, a ritual depicted on coins of the early empire including those of Trajan and Hadrian. This depiction on this brooch is similar to Mackreth's no. 10558 but with the addition of the soldiers bearing standards. Mackreth notes one other example from Oxfordshire but this has a different design. These are not common brooches and the method of manufacture means that few survive intact; although a small number of repoussé brooches have been reocrded on the PAS database, this is the first example to retain the top plate.Although most of these examples date from c. AD 150-200, they may have continued in use until c. AD 250.
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