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Description: | A complete copper-alloy plate brooch, missing only the pin. It is a swastika in shape and measures 25.94mm by 24.29mm in size. It is flat and the front face decorated with nine evenly spaced ring and dot motifs. The back face is undecorated and has a single pin lug with corroded iron adhering to its base, presumably the remains of an iron pin, and a large catchplate which has two parallel vertical grooves on one face. This brooch is unusual and could be Roman or early medieval in date, Roman examples of the same shape, also flat are known from elsewhere see LVPL-F52FB5, however, these are undecorated and the pin loop is normally two lugs rather than one, this example with its ring and dot motifs may therefore be early medieval rather than Roman.
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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