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Description: | A copper alloy Roman umbonate plate brooch dating to the period AD 100-250. The brooch is missing the end of the catchplate and has been bent. Part of the decorated plate is damaged. Before the brooch was bent, the plate was circular in plan with a groove around it. On the outside of the groove, there were slightly expanded edges on either side of the brooch and knop at the base and a loop at the top (which is missing, leaving only a small knop). The umbonate plate of the brooch is decorated with two rings of champleve isoceles triangles filled alternately with red and blue enamel. In the centre of the plate is a circular depression that has the remnants of a white filling (possibly coral). The back of the brooch is undecorated. At the bottom of the back of the brooch, the catchplate extends down the back of the knop and at the top there is a hinged pin which is attached to the back of the small knop that lead to the headloop. There is evidence of tinning. Cf Hattatt, R, 2007, A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches, Oxbow Books, Oxford, p 350, fig 209, no 128.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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