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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman enamelled disc brooch. The circular disc has an umbonate centrepiece with a fragment of a chain loop surviving at the top and a lug opposite moulded concentrically, with fragments of six smaller lugs in between. Behind the surviving lug is an incomplete catchplate (length is 9.4mm) and opposite is the remains of two lugs for a hinge pin mechanism, the pin of which is missing. There is a deep channel between the umbonate centre and the surrounding sloping plate. At the centre are five ovoid cells in a flower formation with a central raised pellet. The outer edge has a sunburst-derived pattern consisting of fourteen triangular cells with a triangle inside. None of the enamel in the cells survives.The surviving length is 37.2mm, the surviving width is 28.3mm and the weight is 5.76g.
This brooch is a British made type and a parallel can be found in Hattat, ARBB, P.142, No.131. | Subjects: | Disc | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Staves, Lisa - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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