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Description: | Roman enamelled cast copper alloy plate brooch, rectangular and decorated with an enamelled fish, 2nd century. The simple fish has a ring and dot eye, a blue enamel hemispherical cell at the back of the head, followed by the body which is of uncertain colour, with a circular ?green enamel cell at the centre. The enamel in the tail is damaged. There is a small fin at the top and bottom of the fish, towards the back of the body. The fish is on a background of blue enamel. Complete catchplate. The pin, which was sprung between two lugs, is broken off. Length 27.9mm, width 10.74mm, thickness (including catchplate) 7.00mm, thickness across plate 1.7mm, weight 3.77g.See Hattatt's 'Visual Catalogue' (2000, Oxbow) p 349, no.1098 for an ?identical brooch (originally published in Hattatt's 'Brooches of Antiquity' (1987, Oxford)).
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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