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Description: | Unusual Roman plate brooch, central part a horizontally set pointed oval, with central ring-and-dot containing white enamel and reserved on a blue field between eight dots, two of which retain fragments of white enamel. Both damaged ends of the brooch are sub-triangular with a white enamelled dot (enamel missing from one) on a black enamelled field, and the remains of trefoil lugs at angles. Both terminal lugs contain a blue enamelled dot, the other lugs are, with one exception, broken across the central perforation. Double pin-lug, copper alloy pin and damaged triangular catch-plate on reverse. >21 x 40mm. 2nd century AD.
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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