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Description: | Almost complete enamelled copper alloy, flat and plain edged disc brooch of the Second Century AD. Diameter 20.5mm, thickness 1.2mm. Weight 4.00g. Two coils of a four-coil spring and the extreme end of the pin are missing. The break on the spring appears to be old and the end of the pin appears to have eroded.
Decoration on the front of the brooch is in the form of a central raised disc (about 3mm in diameter) surrounded by a six-pointed star of blue enamel with concave sides. At each tip of the star is a raised disc similar in size to that at the centre of the brooch. The field enamel is green.
On the reverse side of the brooch a perforated lug, 5mm wide and 4.5 mm high, has a semi-circular top. The copper alloy axis bar remains in situ to take a four coil copper alloy spring (two coils are missing). The chord lies tight against the back of the brooch. Viewed from the side, the catch-plate, which is almost complete, is ?D? shaped in profile. | 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 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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