Romano-British Tinned Bronze Hare Brooch

2ND CENTURY A.D.

7/8 in. (3.89 grams, 23 mm).

In the form of a crouching hare with remains of red niello on the body; remains of pin-lugs and catchplate on the verse. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found East Anglia, UK.
From a Kent collection formed in the 1990s.

Literature

Cf. Hattatt, R., Brooches of Antiquity, Oxford, 1987, item 1192.

CONDITION

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