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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy and enamel Roman disc brooch (AD 80-250), missing its pin and some of the enamelling.It is 20mm in diameter with a rim c.1mm in thickness. At the centre of the brooch is a 6-pointed star, the edges between the points being curved and each point terminating in a c.2mm diameter roundel, filled with the remains of a white or green enamel (now very similar to the colour of the metal). Within the star-shaped area is a bright red enamel, almost all of which still remains, with a c.2mm filled dot at its centre, of the same colour as the roundels. The area between the rim and the star is filled with the remains of a ?yellow enamel, now yellowy-brown in colour.The reverse is flat with a number of long and seemingly purposeful scratches, as they are all in the same direction and either side of the (now missing) pin. The catchplate is intact, except for a little of its curl, and the lug is also intact with iron staining on both sides. Thickness 1mm.Cf Hattatt nos.518, 1409 and 118.
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