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Description: | An incomplete and very corroded copper alloy enamelled stud of Roman date. The stud is circular in shape, but many sections of the edges and the integral shaft on the reverse are missing due to old breaks. It measures 18.22mm in surviving diameter, 2.35mm in thickness, and weighs 2.06g. The outer face of the stud is decorated with enamel arranged around a central circle. The central circle is approximately 5.5mm in diameter and may have once been filled with enamel. This was probably separated from a second band of decoration by a small moulded wall or concentric circle. The second band of decoration measures approximately 3.5mm in width and 11.57mm in diameter, but all trace of what decoration may have once existed is now missing. This is separated from a third, and final, band of decoration by a prominent wall or concentric circle that has traces of an added white metal coating. The exterior band is incomplete due to damage at the edges of the stud. It preserves remains of enamelled decoration comprising regularly spaced squares of blue enamel interspersed by smaller squares of uncertain colour. The underside of the stud is flat and undecorated, and there is much corrosion at the point where the integral shaft would have once been attached. Similar circular enamelled studs are noted from Roman contexts, with parallels apparent at Roman Colchester (see Crummy, 1983: pp. 118, nos. 3217-3221) and on the Portable Antiquities Database from Suffolk (SF-1C6462).
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