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Description: | A cast copper alloy lozenge shaped plate brooch, with a twin lug mechanism and enamelled surfaces. This brooch is lozenge shaped, with two decorative knop terminals on the longest axis of the brooch. The knopped terminals appear to be missing from the corners of the shortest axis. The brooch has been decorated on the front surface with a raised lozenge shaped boss. Around the lozenge boss there is a border of upright strokes. Around this border there are a further two borders made of upright strokes. Any traces of enamel have now been removed. The two surviving knops are decorated with a concentric ring design. The reverse is undecorated but there is a circular hollow behind the boss. The catchplate survives but it has been broken. Two stumps survive where the twin lug was once situated. The twin lug and the catchplate have been aligned longitudinally across the reverse of the brooch, along the longest axis. 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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