Ca. 100-300 AD A bronze brooch in a form of a swastika with four stylised horse head terminals, and a catch-plate on the reverse. The swastika was a symbol of lightning bolts in Roman art and is therefore associated with the thunder god, Jupiter. For more information on Roman brooches see Richard Hattatt. 2000. A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches. Oxbow Books.Size: L:37.4mm / W:37.5mm ; 13.5g Provenance: From the private collection of an Essex gentleman; previously in an old British Collection, formed in the 1990s.