Getting distracted by Roman accessories

[stellar_muddle]

Jewelry
Rings
Animal brooches (very cool)
Other brooches

More the metal detector find end than high museum end, but still very cool.

Comments

[mrsbrown.livejournal.com]

Do you think some of those "brooches" and "earrings" could be the button-y things holding the shoulders of the tunica together?

[stellar-muddle.livejournal.com]

Don't think any of the earrings are, since the loops look quite earring loop like and would put the gold/lumpy bits in the wrong position relative to the pinned bit.

But the animal pins definitely, and brooches like this disc or this lozenge would probably work really well with a bunch of them. The problem with isolated instances on sale, is you don't know the context of where they were found cf positioning and numbers in grave finds etc.