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Description: | A cast copper alloy lozenge shaped plate brooch, with twin lugs and enamelled surfaces. This brooch is lozenge shaped, with two decorative knop terminals on the corners of the shorter sides of the lozenge. The longest axes of the lozenge are not pointed but it has been squared off and cut away decorations on the terminals. A hole has been drilled through the terminal at one end. The lozenge shaped plate measures 32.4mm x 16.6mm (from end to end). This plate has been decorated on the front surface with a raised boss in the centre of the lozenge shape. Surrounding this is a raised relief copper alloy floral design, which has been inlaid with shiny blue enamel. There also appears to be some red enamelling on this surface. The reverse is undecorated but there is a hollow behind the boss (which is visible from the front). The catchplate survives but it has been broken. There is also a twin lug with a fragment of the pin still in situ. The twin lug and the catchplate have been aligned longitudinally across the reverse of the brooch, along the longest axis. the pin is incomplete. The metal is quite worn and the enamelled surfaces are quite corroded. The metal has a light brownish-green colour. This type of brooch dates from the 2nd century AD. This brooch is similar to examples in Hattatt, 2000, pp348, Fig. 207.
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