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Description: | Copper alloy enamelled flat disc brooch. Missing pin, spring, damaged catchplate, missing part of plate; surfaces corroded and abraded. The pin was sprung between two lugs, 6.5mm apart, and there are slight ribs (less than 0.5mm high)between the ends of the lugs (forming a rectangular outline to the spring area). The plate is 1mm thick and divided into three concentric zones by narrow ribs; these and the 17 dots in the middle zone are very corroded with traces of white metal on the surface. Very little enamel survives - a fragment of blue in the outer ring, discoloured patches of yellow-green in the middle and nothing in the central 11mm diameter zone. Overall diameter 32.5mm. This type is as Hattatt no 1564 (but without the scalloped edge of that eg) which he describes as probably a British type, probably 2nd century, with a broadly northern and western distribution and remarkably few in East Anglia. Examples are known from Suffolk, with very similar ones from Woodbridge (Ipswich Museum 1977-48-5) and Sweffling.
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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