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Description: | Incomplete, very worn and missing almost all its enamelled decoration, seal box lid. It is lozenge-shaped and measures 27x21x2.5mm (weighing 3.08g).The edges are badly worn and now smooth. On the reverse of the two furthest opposing points are the raised areas of some sort of hinge fixing, suggesting this is a seal-box lid and not a plate brooch (it is also rather too thick to be a plate brooch).The decoration is in the form of an X within a square, set at the centre of the lozenge (the wear has reoved the outermost edges of this. This arrangement appears to have been filled with black ?enamel, or possibly niello? In one place where it is missing on the X the groove is visible quite deep.Four triangular sections are created with this decoration. One has a trace of turquoise enamel, while one directly next to it has traces of red enamel. The other two show no traces.Traditional dating for enamelled seal boxes has been 2nd/ 3rd century, although this is thought to now be only spuriously precise.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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