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Unique ID: PUBLIC-C06572
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A 2nd - 3rd century Roman, Copper Alloy Horse and Rider Plate Brooch facing right; 25.3mm in length, 21.1mm wide and 6.1mm thick. The brooch weighs 3.0g and has 3 enamel cells.
The brooch is sub rectangular in form and rectangular in section with a sub triangular protrusion above, representing a part of the horses neck, and a small rectangular protrusion below, representing a fore limb.
The horse portion is decorated with 2 enamel cells. The first cell is semicircular and runs between neck and forelimb, containing blue enamel, while a linear cell runs along the base of the object and curves into the horses rump which contains red enamel.
Only the lower portion of the rider remains and this is decorated with a sub circular cell containing red enamel.
The reverse of the brooch shows a copper alloy U shaped catch plate which runs for the length of the forelimb and retains most of a two coil drawn wire spring.
Celtic and Roman Artefacts (Mills, N and Payne, G) 2000, P56, Ref RB137, shows a more complete example of this type of brooch
Class:
Plate
Sub class: Zoomorphic (Horse and Rider)
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: ROMAN
Quantity: 1
Length: 25.3 mm
Width: 21.1 mm
Thickness: 6.1 mm
Weight: 3 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 7th March 2004
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Enamel
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Zoomorphic
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
4 Figure: SO8019
Four figure Latitude: 51.86921261
Four figure longitude: -2.2918821
1:25K map: SO8019
1:10K map: SO81NW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Mills, N. and Payne, G. | 2000 | Celtic and Roman Artefacts | Witham | Greenlight Publishing | 56 | RB137 |