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Description: | Roman enamelled copper alloy umbonate plate broch, incomplete, late 1st-2nd century. Circular brooch with central conical dome. The dome is decorated with a quatrefoil with central rounded knob, and turquoise enamel in each of the rounded cells, with traces of discoloured (white/green) enamel in the triangular cells between the petals. This is surrounded by a plain line border, then a groove and another plain line border, followed by an outer ring of eleven rounded petal-shaped cells, again containing tuquoise enamel with discoloured enamel in the triangular cells between. Originally there would have been eight lugs projecting from the, now damaged, plain line outer edge, but just part of the larger top and bottom lugs remain - the base of the circular pierced top lug, and most of the rounded bottom lug with central ring and dot motif (probably originally enamelled). One the concave reverse of the brooch, the damaged catchplate extends onto the bottom rounded lug, and the broken pin is hinged on an iron axis bar between two pierced lugs, set just below the pierced top lug. Mid brown-green patina. Length 33.27mm, width 25.90mm, thickness including catchplate & pin hinge 10.8mm, thickness across centre (not including cathplate etc) 6.56mm, weight 6.26g.The discoloured enamel in the triangular cells may have originally been red - see Bayley & Butcher 2004 ('Roman Borrhces in Britain', London) p132-3, no.s 379-381, Plate 24; also SF8563 (Worlington, Suffolk), LIN-6116D4 (Osbournby, Lincs) on the PAS database. PAS SWYOR-D96341 (Market Weighton, Humberside) and Hattatt 1982 ('Ancient and Romano-British Brooches', Sherbourne) no.s 130 & 131 have enamel of indeterminate colour in the triangular cells, like this brooch.
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