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Description: | Roman copper alloy disc brooch with niello inlay, mid-late 1st century. Flat circular disc with with six evenly spaced flat rounded projections from the edge (one broken off); central raised pellet with depressed circle around (possibly a champleve enamel cell, no traces of enamel remain); then a neillo plain line border surrounded by a ring of twenty-one inlaid niello outward-pointed drop-shapes, all surrounded by a plain double-line border. The copper alloy pin is held in a double lug hinge with copper alloy bar; the tip of the pin is damaged, as is the hook of the rectangular projecting catchplate. Diameter 21.56mm, thickness 1.65mm, weight 3.88g.See Hattatt 2000 ("Visual Catalogue", Oxbow) p342, fig 201, no.1017 for an apaprently identical brooch (originally published in Hattatt's "Brooches of Antiquity").
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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