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Description: | a copper alloy Roman plate brooch. It is a flat enamelled disc with four peripheral lugs arranged evenly around the circumference. The disc has a rim 3.15mm wide, and a central protruding boss with a concave stem and domed head. The field created between the rim and the boss has two rectangular strips of blue enamel, arranged radially, with traces of a third, suggesting an original arrangement of six radial strips. Of the peripheral lugs two opposing ones have blue enamel infill. They are all c.5.6mm in diameter. There are four scars spaced evenly between the lugs, which indicate the position of a possible four further lugs. An example from Hattatt 1987, no.1419 is similar.The pin and catchplate are attached behind the blue enamel lugs. The pin is missing, but was hinged. The disc brooch has a diameter of 23.75mm, and measures 323.77mm in length across two peripheral lugs. It weighs 8.47g.
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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