File:Incomplete zoomorphic brooch in the form of a resting hare, reverse (FindID 73710).jpg

English: Incomplete Roman zoomorphic brooch. This brooch takes the form of a hare, but instead of the typical bounding hare, it takes the more unusual form of the animal at rest. What remains is the squatting body of the animal, now roughly figure of eight shaped in plan, with the complete foreleg pulled up under the chest of the animal. The hind leg is missing. The head of the animal is also missing, though its neck remains. The tail of the hare is formed from the two pin bar lugs of the catch fitting. When viewing the reverse of the brooch, these pin bar lugs are complete with the perforations blocked with orange corrosion product. The corresponding catchplate is positioned on the reverse of the foreleg. It is now heavily truncated and worn to little more than a raised, rounded lug. The pin is missing. The front of the brooch is decorated with two enamel cells in the form of two young hares facing each other with their forelegs raised and touching in the centre. Where the forelegs touch is a foliate or star like design of four lines radiating outwards. The left-hand cell is partially filled with the remains of enamel that are now a dark yellow in colour. The right hand cell has enamel remains that are now brownish red. This suggests that originally the young hares were brighter red and yellow in colour. The reverse of the brooch is plain.The original surface of the brooch is missing and now the copper alloy has a mid green patina to front and back. The brooch is 21.46mm long along the body, 13.52mm wide, 2.64mm thick and weighs 2.54g. It dates from the 2nd century.

In 1985 Hattatt commented that only three examples of zoomorphic brooches with the hare at rest were known. Though these numbers must have increased over the past 20 years with the growing popularity of metal detecting, this brooch still represents an interesting and unusual form. An almost exact example (and one of the three referenced by Hattatt) can be seen in Bushe-Fox 1949, plate XXIX, number 44.