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Description: | Copper alloy disc brooch, flat enamelled type. Missing pin, damaged margin and almost all the enamel lost. Pin was hinged between two close set lugs. The enamel originally covered the entire face with a narrow rib enclosing it around the margin which is now largely missing and worn flat. The corrosion pattern shows a chequer-board design with paler lines around dark 2.5mm squares. A small patch at the edge has a blue enamel square with red enamel along the edges. Diam 31mm, plate just under 1mm thick. This chequered type of disc brooch is normally millefiore - although the complete surviving blue square at the edge is plain an adjacent fragment might have white spots (?) in it. Hattatt nos. 522, 1037 with further parallels and suggests probably Continental in origin - but these two examples and the cited Richborough (IV) and Augst (1979) ones are all smaller in diameter than the present example. However an example from WCB 016 is of comparable size and has alternating squares of red & blue. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 43
410 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Jude Plouviez | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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