Cloak clasp, silver, Celtic/ Britain, 60BC.

Circular silver cloak clasp or brooch, constructed from a single piece of silver wire forged flat on one side of the circle and engraved in a decorative manner, the other side has been left as a tapered wire and bent to form the clasp of the brooch. The wide flat section has been decorated centrally with a piece of wire bent into loops to form three circles in a pyramid formation and soldered with small discs centrally and at each base corner. The end of the wide arc terminates in two circular discs, to disguise the forged width changes.

Made: Celtic people; ; 60

A1519

60

70 mm