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Description: | Roman lozenge shaped plate brooch. The raised central panel is V-shaped with a semi-circular top (resembling an upsidedown tear-drop) and contains traces of blue/green enamel. The outer edge of the brooch is marked with short lines. There is a trilobe knop at head containing three dot-in-circle designs, and the round knop at the foot contains one dot-in-circle. The foot knop appears to be complete, rather than a broken trilobed knop. The two side knops are missing and the breaks are worn. The reverse of the plate has a deep domed recess with a small circular depression slightly off center. The in tact hinge is situated behind the trilobed knop, and the catchplate is behind the foot knop. The pin is missing. Lozenge shaped plate brooches are found all over the northern roman provences, however the trilobed knop is rare and appears to be a native British device. There is no exact parallel for this brooch, however similar designs can be seen in Hattatt's visual catalogue plate 207. Number 1091 and 1582 have trilobed knops, however these are for all four knops, not just the head knop as with our example. The tear-drop shape enamelled panel does not appear in Hattatt's catalogue. | 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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