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Description: | Roman copper alloy equal armed or plate brooch with a central plate in the shape of a six pointed star. One of the points is elongated and has the remains of the catchplate behind it, the opposite point has broken off from an old break. The front is enamelled with a plain border enclosing red enamel surrounding a central raised copper alloy ring containing blue enamel. The brooch measures 18.84mm long by 15.57mm wide and 1.91mm thick; it weighs 1.17gms.The plain form of the extended point suggests this may simply be a plate brooch where the smallness has necessitated expanding one arm rather than an equal armed brooch which tend to have decorative terminals. Hattatt (1989:182-3, Fig 85, No. 1650) illustrates a similarly decorated and sized 6 pointed star brooch which does not have an extended arm while in another volume (1987:204, Fig 64, No. 1106) he isllustates a similar six pointed enameled example where one two opposite points have been extended into zoomorphic terminals. Either interpretation would place this in the 2nd century AD.
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