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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy and enamel Roman lozenge-shaped plate brooch with lugs, missing its pin, curl of catchplate, lugs and most of its enamel.The brooch is 31mm long by 20.5mm wide (incomplete measurements). The decoration is on a raised platform (19.5x37.5mm) which is surrounded by a worn flange. The decoration is in the form of four diamond shapes 9.5x6.5mm, two of which (behind the catchplate and hinge) are filled with the remains of a bright blue enamel. The other two have traces of dull green, possibly suggesting red enamel. These again are slightly raised and the X area created between them is filled with a rib-like X.The reverse of brooch has hinge lugs and catchplate, and between a 14mm diameter, 1.5mm deep circular lathe-turned area with a 1x2.5mm depression at the centre. Hattatt comments this is a technique of manufacture and has been noted on a number of other plate brooches.There is one other example in Hattatt form Norfolk, no.577. This has cells of blue and red.Weighs 3.99g. 2nd century in date.
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