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Description: | 2nd to 3rd century copper alloy Roman brooch. Hattatt describes this brooch as an oval brooch with intaglio, though the intaglio is missing from this example. The brooch is oval in plan and has a moulded, raised outer rim, 2mm wide, and a moulded raised inner oval rim, within which the missing intaglio would have been fixed. The surface of the brooch shows traces of silvering or tinning. There are no traces of enamel between the outer and inner, but it is likely that enamel was present originally. More complete examples have had undivided alternating segments of blue and another colour of enamel (green and white have been recorded). The reverse of the brooch also has faint traces of silvering or tinning. The pin bar lug is complete, but the pin is missing. A large proportion of the catchplate survives, but has lost the curled over section that would have held the pin end.Despite the missing intaglio and enamel, the main body of this brooch survives in good condition. Examples of other oval brooches can be found in Hattatt, 1985, Iron Age and Roman Brooches, page 183, figure 73. This type of brooch is widely scattered across Britain, with a predominance in the south. They date to the 2nd century but may have continued into the 3rd.
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