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Description: | A Roman cast copper alloy plate brooch. The brooch is sub-circular in plan, with a small portion of the edge being abraded and incomplete. The upper surface of the brooch is decorated with a central annulet surrounded by six evenly spaced pellets. There are traces of red enamel on the field around the pellets. The border of the brooch has a high-relief lip. On the reverse there are two integral lugs, at opposite edges. One lug is complete and has a small central peroration filled with a fragment of an iron axis bar. The pin is missing. The opposite lug is incomplete, and was the catch plate originally. The brooch has a dark green coloured patina. It measures 23.36mm diameter and 6.46mm thick at the complete lug. It weighs 3.6g.
Crummy (Crummy, N 1983 Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman Small Finds From Excavations in Colchester 1971-1979) illustrates a similar brooch, No. 80 and dates it to the 2nd century. Bayley and Butcher (Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 176) comments plate brooches continued into the early 3rd century. | Subjects: | Disc Plate | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bolton, Angie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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