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Description: | An enamelled cast copper alloy umbonate brooch of probable second century AD date. The domed circular brooch measures 40.8mm by 33.3mm by 14.6mm and weighs 10.6g. The edge of the brooch is decorated with eight equally-spaced knops. Six are round and plain with a diameter of about 2.5mm. The other two, which sit opposite each other, are larger. One of these is in the form of a loop and conceals the hinge for the pin. The other is solid with a moulded ring-and-dot and hides the curving catchplate. The front of the brooch is decorated with enamelled cells. In the centre of the dome there is a small circular cell which contains red enamel. This is surrounded by four petals, two of which are blue and two of which are yellow. Around this, on the flat part of the brooch which borders the dome there are further petals; four are yellow and sit at the cardinal points and in between these there are two blue petals in all but one quarter, where there is only one. The background against which all the petals are set is decorated with green enamel. The back of the brooch is concave. Several similar examples feature in Hattatt's 'Visual Catalogue'. No. 130, from Ipswich in Suffolk, is the closest parallel, although it is smaller (2000, p. 350, fig. 209).
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