Roman Jewellery Silvered Bronze Plate Brooch 1st Century

A zoomorphic silvered bronze plate brooch depicting stylised dolphins with a chalice between; hinged pin present. 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. This varies with the age of the artefact and there are grades between. Very slight traces of wear. All parts of pattern etc present.

Some signs of wear on the higher parts of the relief. Wear on the artefact and parts of item and pattern etc may be missing or not visible.

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