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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman plate brooch. The brooch is circular in plan. The upper surface is decorated with a lipped edge and a central circular cell also with a lipped edge. Between this two edges there is a ring of small stamped ??S??s and annulets. There are traces of gilding on this surface. The central cell is filled with an incomplete dark green/blue glass boss which is a conical in profile. The reverse of the brooch has an incomplete white alloy or silver coating. There is a pair of parallel lugs at one edge, which are perforated. Through the perforations there is a fragment of an iron axis bar. Around the axis bar the copper alloy spring is coiled which leads to the pin. The surface of the brooch is slightly abraded and has traces of a mid green/grey coloured patina. The brooch weighs 9.7g, and measures 24.55mm diameter and 14.72mm thick.
Hattat (1987 Brooches of Antiquity Oxbow) illustrates a similar brooch, No. 640 and he dates these type of brooches to the 2nd to 3rd centuries. Macketh (1998 ??Copper Alloy Brooches?? in Timby, J. Excavations at Kingscote and Wycomb, Gloucestershire Cotswold Archaeological Trust p. 147) illustrates a similar brooch, No. 1.176 and narrows the dates of these type of brooches to c. 160 and through the 3rd century. Worrell (Worrell, S. 2007 ??Roman Brooch Timeline?? North-West PAS Newsletter) expands the date from 200 to 350 AD. | Subjects: | 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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