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 a similar, see Almgren, O., Studien über nordeuropäische Fibelformen, Leipzig, 1923, pl. X, fig. 232.Size: L:32.4mm / W:42.2mm ; 11.4gProvenance: Private London collector, acquired on the Austrian Art market, formerly in an old USA collection formed since the 1970s.