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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy oval brooch with probable paste intaglio (length: 30.3mm; width: 25.3mm; thickness: 7.2mm; weight: 10.18g), probably dating from the 2nd-4th century AD. The outside edge of the brooch is rimmed and protruding slightly upwards on the front face, with a gap and an inner ridge running around the front, before another gap after which the central platform protrudes outwards. The front face is gilded on the surface between the outside edge and the central platform, with small criss-cross markings in the outer gap, and small areas of visible marked decoration in the inner gap, but it is difficult to identify the design. The central platform has the remains of what appears to be intaglio, which now appears as a paste, but there are small fragments of the original surface around the edges, of dark purple/ brown colour. If there was any marked/ indented design originally in the intaglio, it has now disappeared. The back of the brooch is very worn, with small areas of red/ orange corrosion (possibly indicating iron?) as well as some patches of bronze disease. There are also patches of silvering on the back, nearer the edges. There is very little evidence of the spring and catch plate, apart from two slightly protruding ridges. Overall, the brooch is very worn and in a bad condition, with extensive corrosion around the edges and on the back. Similar oval intaglio brooch examples are illustrated in Hattatt?s ?Iron Age & Roman Brooches?, 1985, pages 180 & 183, fig 73, ref nos 636-8, found at Colchester, Thetford and an unknown provenance respectively. However, the design around the central platform is more similar to those illustrated in the same publication and the same figure 73, where are described as a Glass Centre Boss type (see pages 181-2 also). More examples of both types of brooch are also illustrated in Hattatt?s ?Brooches of Antiquity?, 1987, pages 252-261. | 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
400 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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