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Description: | Copper alloy brooch. Lion brooch, probably a local copy of a continental type, Mackreth type LEO 9.a. Circular sheet metal plate with a lower extent formed as a fantail with incised longitudinal medial and border lines, and with surface traces of a further separate circular element lost from the top part of the plate. A pair of lugs at the top of the circular plate are folded back and rolled to retain the axis bar for a cast hinged pin. A pale patch on the back of the fantail marks the loss of a separate catch plate, and an incised line also appears running diagonally across the back of the circular plate. The fantail retains white metal plating on its display side, imitating the silvering of brooches whose distribution is linked to the movements of the 1st-century Roman army; an example has been recorded from Hod Hill, the type site for a class of such brooches. Mackreth (2011, vol. 1, page 32, no. 13770) notes another hinged copy of a lion brooch also from Lincolnshire. Suggested date: Late Iron Age to Early Roman, 30-70.Length: 35.1mm, Width: 14.2mm, Thickness (sheet): 0.8mm, Weight: 5.04gms
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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