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Description: | Copper alloy enamelled disc brooch, slightly domed. Missing pin, severe damage around the edges, catchplate and pin hinge largely removed; iron-stained corrosion on the back. The pin was hinged between two close-set lugs. The back is almost flat, the front convex. A central dot contains blue enamel, with an empty concentric band. From this eight panels radiate; the larger four form a a cross with a single U-shaped "petal" in each cell, all containing an orange paste which in one case has traces of dark ?blue on the surface. The intervening smaller radiating cells all contain blue enamel. Traces survive of a large groove around the circumference and the stubs of projections over the hinge and catchplate. Survivng diameter 31mm, plate height 3.2mm. Hattatt shows one similar brooch (no.129) in a group described as variants on the common umbonate types, generally dated 2nd century and a British type. | 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
250 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Jude Plouviez | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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