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Description: | A cast copper alloy lozenge shaped plate brooch, with lugs and decorated enamelled surfaces. This brooch is lozenge shaped, and would once have had decorative knops on each corner of the lozenge and in the middle of each angle. Only two now survive (one on a corner, one on an angle). Both have been decorated with ring and dot designs. Just inside from the edge of the lozenge is a raised lozenge shaped border, which has been engraved with rows of parallel short lines (going across the raised border, rather than along it). Inside this border is a lozenge shaped strip of what appears to have once been a red enamel. Then inside this border there is a lozenge shaped gap, which may once have been enamelled or may have held a stone. The reverse is undecorated but there is a circular hollow behind the central lozenge shaped design (which is visible from the front). This hollow appears to have been drilled out and a smaller hollow sits inside it. The catchplate survives but it has been broken. There are also the remains of the twin lug. The twin lug and the catchplate have been aligned longitudinally across the reverse of the brooch, along the longest axis. The metal is quite worn and the enamelled surfaces are quite corroded. The metal has a light greyish-green colour. This type of brooch dates from the 2nd century AD. This brooch is similar to examples in Hattatt, 2000, pp348, Fig. 207. | 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
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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