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Description: | Disc brooch
Roman 100-199AD
Diameter 18mm, height 13mm
The brooch has a cone shaped central boss 5mm at the base, the cone expands slightly outwards towards the end to form a circular terminal. The face of the brooch has six Pellets are situated around the centre cone and a raised rim denotes the edge of the brooch. There are the remains of red enamel within the recesses of the face of the artefact. The catch plate on the reverse is complete and a second projection with a hole in the centre would have held the separate spring mechanism. The spring is only partially remaining consisting of four coils and a bar that run through the centre, the pin is missing.
The artefact is made from copper alloy, although it is corroded but all of its features are still visible, it has a mid to light green colour with none of its original surface remaining.
Similar examples have been found at Colchester and have been dated to the 2nd century (Crummy, 1983, 16,17). | 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: | 100
199 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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