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Description: | An almost complete Roman copper alloy disc brooch. The front of the brooch features two concentric ribs of decreasing diameter within the disc, and a raised border around the circumference. The inner rib stands in clear relief when the brooch is viewed in profile. The zone within the inner rib is recessed and contains a raised annular collar, around a central corroded area. This area would have contained a glass setting and a few fragments of glass were found with the brooch. The two zones between the outermost ribs are decorated with a repeated X and bar punched design. These two ells are gilded. The reverse of the brooch features a large single lug and catchplate. A gently raised line runs between the catchplate and the lug. A copper alloy axis bar runs through the perforation in the lug and the pin is coiled into a spring round the bar. There is a ninety degree bend in the middle of the pin so the tip does not rest on the catchplate. The reverse of the brooch is silvered, but not side which was probably originally gilded, though very little survives, in contrast to the front. The brooch is 36.12 mm in diameter and weighs 20.34g. Based on parallels, this is likely to have been a gilded disc brooch with a central glass setting (see Bayley, J & Butcher, S, 2004, 'Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study based on the Richborough Collection' pp 134-5, and plate 7, between pages 48-9). Bayley & Butcher date this type of brooch to the third if not the fourth century, and probably manufactured in Britain since few are known from the Continent (Ibid. pp 178-9). Similar examples on the database are WMID-128924, LVPL-616C83 and BERK-02AB86.
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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