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Description: | A Roman copper alloy incomplete disc brooch. The edges around the circumference are worn but appear to be down-turned, and there is one rear projecting lug for pin attachment(pin missing). The style is umbonate, with a depression at the centre of the dome, and five grooves regularly spaced around it. There is a single plain rib surrounding the dome, and a second concentric knurled rib close to the circumference. The brooch measures 21.17mm in diameter, 23.37mm in length including the lug, and weighs 3.24g. There are traces of tinning on the obverse.
Whilst it is similar to some of Hattatt's examples(nos 541 and 542) of disc brooches without enamel or peripheral lugs, there are also parallels with the conical centred types which have a more pronounced cone than this find. No. 1073, described by Hattatt as an odditiy, has similar knurled decoration, and there is also an example from Colchester found in a first century context. (Crummy 1983, no.85) This type of brooch is likely to date to the second century AD. | Subjects: | plate | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Carr, Jane - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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