Description
Roman Jewellery
Material: Silvered bronze
Period: Roman imperial
Date: 1st to 2nd century
Origin: Roman provinces
Condition: VF. silvering a little worn.
Description: A zoomorphic silvered bronze plate brooch depicting stylised dolphins with a chalice between; hinged pin present.
Size and Weight: 30mm x 16mm. 8.38g
Features and Provenance: Ex Noonan’s. previously from a UK collection.
Brooches as clothes fasteners have been made since the bronze age. As skills and metallurgy advanced. so did the size and detail of the fibulae. They were still used by the Romans. as buttons as then had yet to be invented. This type of brooch was an adapted plate brooch and their ornamentation indicated a degree of affluence by the wearer and their delicate structure points at them being used on equally delicate. expensive fabric.
Condition Summary. This varies with the age of the artefact and there are grades between
Extremely Fine (EF). Very slight traces of wear. all parts of pattern etc present. visible and clear
Very Fine (VF). Some signs of wear on the higher parts of the relief. all parts of pattern etc present. but may be worn
Fine (F). Wear on the artefact and parts of item and pattern etc may be missing or not visible
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