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Description: | A complete 2nd-century Roman copper-alloy equal-ended plate brooch. The brooch is broadly hexagonal, being formed of a lozenge truncated at each short end. The resulting straight edges are furnished with three small rounded lugs, and a similar lug is placed at each side corner. The upper surface features a border, within which diagonal lines extend to the corners from a central annulet. There are further transverse lines extending from the annulet. The six broadly triangular areas thus created are recessed to take enamel. It appears from surviving enamelling that upper and lower cells are filled with red enamel, with the other cells are filled with blue, possibly blue-red-turquoise on each half, with rotational symmetry. It is uncertain as to what, if anything, would have filled the middle of the central circle. The lower surface of the brooch is flat, with two semicircular lugs at one short end and a catchplate at the other (max. L.: 7.3mm). The lugs are perforated to take the axis bar. The pin survives around the axis bar formed of three coils, the outer two curved round below into the chord, the central coil emerging uppermost as the pin. The pin has been abraded and slightly bent. The brooch has corroded to a mid/dark green colour. A direct parallel can be found illustrated in Hattatt (2000, 353; ref. 1116). The parallel was found in Dorset, while only two others have been illustrated in Hull's corpus under Type 227. One is from Caerwent, Gwent (Hull Pl. 804; ref. 8908) and the other from Gestingthorpe, Essex (Hull Pl. 804, ref. 2263), both virtually identical to this example. No foreign examples are known leading Hattatt (1987, ref. 1116) to describe this as 'an uncommon native British type'.
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