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Description: | Roman Umonate Plate Brooch of copper alloy with enamel decoration. 3 of the lug are damaged and the hinged pin is missing. It measures 39x30x10mm and wieghs 7.86g.
The circular disc has a diameter of 29mm. It would have been surrounded by eight lugs, two of which are missing, and one damaged. Six are small with diameters of c.2mm whilst the two over the hinged pin attachment are larger with diameters of c.7mm. Only one of these is complete and is decorated with two concentric rings of ridges and was probably enamelled. The other was probably perforated forming a chain loop.
In the centre of the disc is a hollow cone with concave sides and a small knop on top. It it is decorated with four oval enamel fields arranged like petals around the central knop, filled with blue enamel. The fields between the petals were filled with red enamel. The rest disc around the cone is distorted but was probably slightly conical. Separated from the central feature by a deep groove is a circular field defined by two concentric circular ridges. Within this are eleven scale-shaped fields defined by raised metalwork, again filled with blue enamel. The spaces between these field were filled with enamel, but this has now discoloured.
It is identical to 130 from Ipswitch in Hattatt (1989) and very similar to 379, 380 and 381 from Richborough in Bayley and Butcher (2004).
Umbonate plate brooches date to the the 2nd century AD. | Subjects: | umbonate plate | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Wood, Rachel | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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