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Description: | A virtually complete Roman cast copper-alloy umbonate disc brooch dating to the late 1st/2nd century AD. The brooch is domed and broadly circular, with protrusions at the cardinal points. The largest of these knops conceals the double semicircular lug in which the pin is still retained by its axis bar. The pin is slightly corroded and has lost its tip. Opposite, on the longest axis, a knop conceals a catchplate of sub-rectangular shape and slightly abraded. The other two projections are small and rounded by comparison.The upper surface of the brooch is decorated with enamel which is set in small triangular recesses. These are arranged in two circles of fourteen around a central ring and dot, and all within a grooved circular border. The enamel is retained in all cells apart from a few and is exclusively blue; many such brooches have enamel alternating between red and blue (Hattatt 1982, 140; ref. 128; cf. also SUSS-3471F7 on this database). The artefact has corroded to a mid-green colour and has been bent downwards slightly on one side.
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