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Description: | A copper alloy Roman plate brooch. The brooch is 28.5mm long, 24.9mm wide and 6.5mm thick. It is circular with eight projecting rounded lugs of which six survive. The breaks are not recent. The front of the brooch is decorated with three concentric circular cells for enamel. The centre cell, the outer cell and the lugs all contain large amounts of surviving red enamel. The remaining cell contains bright blue enamel. The enamel has survived in a remarkably good condition. Often enamel fades and takes on different colours in the ground, but this example appears not to have suffered. The reverse of the brooch is not decorated. It has an uneven dark green patina. There are remains of a hinged pin; a pair of pin lugs and part of the catchplate, but the pin is missing. The brooch is in very good condition. A very similar example is described in Snape (1993) ??Roman Brooches from North Britain?? on page 24. It and this example probably date from the second century. | Subjects: | plate | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Cooper, Amy - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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