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Description: | Incomplete Roman cast copper alloy equal-ended type plate brooch (2nd century AD). The brooch has a wide rectangular-plan bow with an incised border defining the central column. This central rectangle is divided horizontally into three equal cells, the middle of which is raised. The upper and lower cell have incised designs which mirror each other; the upper having a triangular shape pointing upwards, and the lower having one pointing downwards. The triangles are themselves defined of smaller triangles in a pyramidical arrangement with four on the bottom row, three above, two above these and one on top. The raised central cell has an incised quatrefoil decoration. Each leaf of the diagonally-orientated quatrefoil has seven rounded lobes and looks a little like an oak leaf. Traces of bright red enamel remain in sections of the quatrefoil. The foot of the brooch plate has a long projection decorated with raised ridges and ending in a pointed collared knop. An identical terminal would have been present at the head of the brooch but this is now missing. On the reverse of the foot is a hemispherical projection that forms the brooch catchplate. The outer edge would probably have folded over in a lip to hold the pin secure, but this appears to have broken off. The reverse of the brooch has some pale buff concretion; the front has a dark olive-green patina. The brooch measures 24.5mm long, 12mm wide and 12.4mm thick. It weighs 4.7 grams. Hattatt (2000) illustrates an example with a similar end terminal and similar sections of triangular decoration p. 353, ref. 1601. The equal-ended type is dated to the 2nd century AD.
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