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Description: | Enamelled copper alloy umbonate brooch. Domed disc shape, concave reverse. The dome is decorated with enamel in champleue work, and is a fairly common form in Britain. Dated finds range from the Flavian period to about the mid 2nd century AD. The decoration is a version of the imported sunburst pattern, in which the suns' rays are reduced to a geometric pattern of triangles, the outer zone having blue enamel, the inner alternating blue and red. A deep channel runs around just inside the perimeter. There would have been a chain loop with three additional knobs around the perimeter of the brooch, one of which would have incorporated a hinged pin on the reverse of it. The knob that is intact has a catchplate on the reverse.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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