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Description: | Roman copper-alloy disc brooch dating to the 2nd century. The circular plate is recessed for enamel and the reserved ornament consists of a central spot with a sexfoil design with lobes on the cusps around it. There are traces of red enamel within the sexfoil, and traces of what now appears as ?black enamel around it. The pin is missing but there are traces of iron staining around the intact single pierced plate. The catchplate is damaged. The brooch has a diameter of 21.29mm, a thickness (including pin hinge) of 5.92mm, a thickness (of disc only) 1.65mm and it weighs 3.15g. Similar brooches are shown in Hattatt's "Visual Catalogue" (2000) p344, fig 203, no.s 518, 1409 & 118 and were excavated at Stonea, Cambridgeshire (Mackreth 1996, 304 no. 18 fig. 94). | Subjects: | Disc | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Atherton, Rachel - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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