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Description: | Roman enamelled cast copper alloy dragonesque brooch, c.AD50-150. Roughly S-shaped plate brooch. Bi-lobed terminals, each with a raised domed pointed-oval towards one side (straight edge at the centre of the brooch), which are both decorated with an off-centre longitudinal groove. The upper terminal, the 'head' is joined from the 'chin' to the main body of the brooch, which is expanded and decorated with champleve enamel cells in alternating red (three cells) and blue (two cells) - the central three cells are rectangular, while the outer two are triangular with one convex edge. The wire pin, which loops around the neck of the 'head' at the top of the S, and passes through a circular opening between the head and the main body of the brooch, is freely moving; it is curved at the back of the brooch, the 'point' is flattened, and the loop is formed of two turns. The pin is rectangular sectioned at the loop and circular-sectioned along it's length. The brooch is flat and undecorated on the reverse. Fine light grey-green patina. Length 46.47mm, width c.17mm, thickness across pin loop 7.89mm, thickness across 'head' 4.35mm, thickness across centre 3.3mm, thickness across 'tail'4.2mm, weight 7.83g.This is probably a West Brigantian style dragonesque brooch dating to the second half of the 1st century, with no upstanding ears, and simple central enamel panels. These may have been manufactured around Settle, North Yorkshire. See Hattatt's 'Ancient and Romano-British Brooches' (1982, reprinted 1994) p152-7 for a discussion of the origins and typology of these brooches.
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