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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy equal-ended Roman plate brooch of the 2nd century AD. The brooch is broadly of the form of a rectangle with rounded corners. Just off each surviving corner on the longer sides are three protrusions with rounded ends (old damage has deprived the brooch of the fourth). These protrude for c. 5mm and are c. 4.4mm wide. Each extant protrusion is decorated with what appears from the illustration (see notes, below) to be a punched ring and dot motif: there are three concentric rings in each. Protruding from the shorter sides of the rectangle are flanges which extend into rounded points. The illustration appears to show a circle punched centrally on the flange, within the widest area resulting from the extension. The point of the flange at the pin lug end (uppermost on the image, right) appears to have been abraded away. The rectangular field is bordered with a raised narrow strip decorated with incisions. Within the border the brooch rises to a central platform, c. 8.6mm wide by c. 21.3mm long. The platform features seven lateral grooves and, duly, eight ridges, all sandwiched within a pair of minor lateral ridges. In profile this raised area has a serrated appearance. The grooves appear to be open at their ends and residual ?glass (possibly enamel, contra the paper record) suggests that they would have originally been inlaid with blue glass (arguably alternated with another colour). On the reverse there is a sub-triangular perforated pin lug below the one of the flange/border elements of a shorter side; on the other is the catchplate. The recorder notes the presence of an iron pin, although this is not clear from the illustration. A brooch with similar properties can be found illustrated in Hattatt (1989, 353; ref. 1118). As alluded to above this brooch has suffered from old damage: a corner projection has been lost along with just over half of the border and angled rising element on one of the longer sides of the rectangle. | 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 | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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