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Roman zoomorphic plate brooch
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Suffolk County Council, Andrew Brown, 2016-01-04 14:42:58
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Roman zoomorphic plate brooch
Description
English: An incomplete copper-alloy Roman zoomorphic plate brooch in the form of a running hare or rabbit. It is missing its pin due to old breaks, but is otherwise complete. The plate is flat and in the form of a hare with rounded snout, large ring and dot for an eye, and projecting oval shaped ears. The body is oval in form with extended fore paw and hind quarters that curved downwards to a short rectangular leg. The front face has the remains of enamelled decoration comprising three diagonal rectangular panels, the central panel containing traces of red enamel, the other two blue/green. Red enamel is also apparent in the ring of the eye. On the back face of the plate there is a single semi-circular pin lug with central circular aperture located behind the hind quarters of the hare. At the head end is a correponsing catchplate that is rectangular in form with folded outer edge. The entire object measures 30.18mm in length, 13.04mm in height, 1.65mm in thickness (6.68mm including pin lug), and 2.22g in weight.

This is a zoomorphic plate brooch of Roman date. It finds close parallels in examples published by Mackreth (plate 125 no. 8086) and in Hattatt (1989: nos. 612-613, 1191) and is of probable c.2nd century AD date.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 100 and 200
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FindID: 742647
Old ref: SF-93372E
Filename: OUS_SF93372E.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/546785
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/546785/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/742647
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