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Description: | A fragment of a cast copper alloy Roman plate brooch. The fragment is the edge of an oval shaped brooch. The upper surface is decorated with two moulded concentric ridges. The interior edge is also a ridge, but it is the broken edge of an oval cell, which originally would have held a glass boss. The broken edges are not recent. The reverse of the fragment is undecorated and has an integral lug at one edge. This lug is incomplete and has the remains of a central perforation which suggests originally it was part of the hinge for the pin. The surface of the brooch is encrusted with soil, but has traces of a mid green/grey coloured patina. The brooch weighs 3.7g, and measures 32mm long, 12.75mm wide and 5.71mm thick. Hattat (1987 Brooches of Antiquity Oxbow) illustrates a similar brooch, No. 1213 and he dates these type of brooches to the 2nd to 3rd centuries. Macketh (1998 'Copper Alloy Brooches' in Timby, J. Excavations at Kingscote and Wycomb, Gloucestershire Cotswold Archaeological Trust p. 147) narrows the dates of these type of brooches to c. 160 and through the 3rd century.
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