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Description: | A cast copper alloy lozenge-shaped plate brooch, of Roman date. The front of the brooch consists of three concentric lozenges, which become higher towards the centre. The central lozenge displays traces of red enamel around part of the edge. The only other traces of decoration are very faint short transverse incised lines on the edges of the central and middle lozenges. The back of the brooch is concave, with the exception of the flat surfaces to which the pin and catchplate are attached. The two lugs which would have held the axis bar of the hinge survive, but not the pin itself. The catchplate is a flat D-shape, with no hook. The brooch is similar to no. 567 (p. 349, fig. 208) in Hattatt's Visual Catalogue, although it is longer and more narrow. Hattatt dates no. 567 to the 2nd century AD. A more elaborate lozenge-shaped plate brooch illustrated in Bayley and Butcher 2004 (p. 177, fig. 152, no. T240) dates from the 2nd to early 3rd centuries, and this date range has been adopted for the present example.
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