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Description: | Roman-British enamelled cast copper alloy dragonesque brooch, c.AD50-150, Hull Type T200A. Incomplete, one terminal and the pin are missing. The remaining terminal (the lower, unjoined terminal) is bi-lobed, with a red enamel dot on the rounded nose-like lobe and an enamel ring and dot at the centre with white enamel dot and red enamel ring (eye-like). The expanded main body of the brooch is decorated with enamel cells consisting of a central sub-circular motif containing a central lozenge-shaped cell with incurved sides and no enamel surviving, surrounded by four pointed oval cells, two containing white enamel, two empty; there is a triangular cell of red enamel at either end of the circular motif. Fine dark grey-green patina. Length (incomplete) 40.08mm, width 27.65mm, thickness across head 5.05mm, thickness across centre 5.25mm, weight 14.46g.
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