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Description: | Incomplete Roman copper alloy disc brooch with traces of enamel, 2nd century AD.
The brooch measures 45mm in diameter, although roughly a third of the brooch is missing, along with the pin. It weighs 5.5g.
It has five lugs remaining measuring 5mm in diameter with one of the lugs forming part of the pin mechanism at the back. There is a trace of red enamel on one of the lugs with other fainter traces apparent on 3 of the others. The main body of the brooch has an alternating pattern of white residue present and again a faint trace of red enamel. The inner body of the brooch is perforated and the diameter measures 21mm, the pin would have been visible through this, if present.
The reverse of the brooch is plain and undecorated with an old break between two of the lugs.
Similar, but not exact examples can be seen in Hattatt, 1989, pg 345, no. 134 and 1057. | Subjects: | Disc | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Cannings, Alice - Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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