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Description: | Copper alloy enamelled disc brooch with centre knob and projecting headloop. Missing pin and most of headloop, damaged catchplate. The pin was hinged between two close set lugs. The central circular knob is rivetted through the plate; it has a concave profile, rising 7mm to a flat top (6.5mm in diam) with a central recess containing matt orange enamel. The main disc is 30mm diameterand 2mm thick. It has three concentric bands of enamelling, separated by narrow (0.5mm) copper alloy bands. Enamel survives in the centre band: alternate rectangles of dark red and white, four of each. No enamel remains in the middle band, and it is not clear from the corrosion whether this band was also in separate pieces or continuous. The outer band is incomplete but contains rectangles of blue/creamy enamel with no surface and white/ creamy enamel with no surface - and this group of four pieces was repeated four times as shown by the traces of blue and the corrosion patterns. Type as Hattatt nos 123, 1038, 1039 (and others with second projection etc), more commonly only two bands of enamel. Also found on the Continent (Riha 1979, Type 7.13, especially no 1608).
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