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Description: | Incomplete Roman copper alloy and enamelled disc brooch with peripheral lugs, most of which are missing. It has a spring mechanism (four coils) and is missing its pin and curl of the catchplate.It is 22mm in diameter from lug at spring to lug at catchplate (the only two that survive in their entirety - vestiges remain of a few others). It is 1.5mm thick and weighs 2.84g.The decoration is of a six-pointed star with a central circular area 3mm in diameter showing the remains of a ?white enamel. The star has remains of red enamel and is on a background with remains of ?turquoise enamel.Some breaks and especially wear around the edges seems quite recent damage.2nd century. Cf Hattatt nos.526 and 1041-3.
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