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Description: | The fantail foot of a Roman bow brooch, probably a bow-and-fantail type or Aesica varient (1st/2nd century AD). The brooch has broken at a central circular 'button'. This would have been raised up; the upwards angle as the button connects to the foot seems an original feature and suggests the bow above was also raised. A central setting may have been housed within a double concentric ring moulding that forms the button or this may have been the point from which the bow projected up and out. The foot below is broadly triangular with slightly projecting ring settings at each lower corner which may also have been inlaid or enamelled. Its edges are decorated with finely incised diagonal lines which give them a cabled appearance. Within the edges, and connecting the rings settings at the corners with the button, are raised lines which delineate a sunken field. The field is dominated by a moulded trefoil which is fitted to the triangular shape of the foot. It may have been that the area around this moulding was enamelled although no enamel survives on this object.On the back is a catch-plate formed of an integral projecting sub-triangle the lower edge of which has been bent back to make a catch. It projects at 90 degrees from the plate. Its web extends the entire length of the foot, down to its lower edge (L.: 16.5mm). The fragment has an even mid/dark-green patina.Bow and Fantail brooches with similar trefoil designs on the fan are dated to c. AD 50-150, see Hattatt (2000:315) no. 815 and 816 for example, with similar recessed central panels. The 'button' at the junction between the fantail and bow and the ring settings are however unusual for this type and perhaps more akin to the locally more common Aesica types dated to the miD first century AD although the recessed and enamelled panel would be more unusual on these: see Mackreth (2011: 47-48, group 3c and no.13945) and SOM-183E93 on this database for an enamelled example and SOM-45CCB3 for one with a similar ring setting.
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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