Brooch

The enamelled bronze brooch, also known as a fibula, was found during excavations at the Roman fort at Newstead in Roxburghshire. It combines two types of brooches. The object was used sometime between 80 and 180 AD.

The brooch consists of a head-stud brooch with enamel decoration. Around this has been fastened a bronze penannular brooch, perhaps to take the place of a broken pin on the head-stud brooch.

Fibulae were used to fasten clothing, and are understandably a common find on Roman sites. During the Roman occupation of Britain, Romano-British styles of brooches developed, fusing Roman forms and native ornamentation in enamel.

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Online ID:	000-180-001-822-C
Image Rights Holder:	National Museums Scotland
Project:	0504: National Museums Scotland Part 2 Project description \| View all records in project
Ref:	National Museums Scotland X.FRA 770
Date:	Between 80 and 180 AD
Material:	Enamelled
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What:	Fibula / brooch / portion
Subject:
Who:	Newstead Collection
Where:	Scotland, Roxburghshire, Melrose, Newstead
Event:
Description:	Portion of a head-stud brooch with enamelling with a penannular brooch attached to it, from the Roman site at Newstead
References:	Curle, J. A Roman frontier post and its people: the fort of Newstead. Glasgow: MacLehose, 1911, p 324, Pl LXXXVI, 19.
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