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Description: | Copper alloy brooch, flat lozenge shaped. Missing pin, damaged hinge lugs and catchplate; damaged margins and missing applique from front. The pin was hinged on two close set lugs. The plate is 1mm thick, slightly thicker along the band between hinge and catchplate. The front has a whiteish irregular deposit, stained red in patches, which is probably the solder for an applique front sheet plate. It has suggestions of a quadrilobed design. Width 24mm, length 26mm. This looks like an early plate type. Riha (Augst,1979) no.1576 is very similar, and grouped by her with the mid-1st century types with glass settings | Subjects: | early | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Plouviez, Judith | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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