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Description: | A Roman disc brooch, probably dating from the 2nd century AD. The disc brooch is circular with a very slightly convex front and eight evenly spaced oval peripheral lugs. Its diameter, including the lugs is 36.65mm, it is 2.92mm thick and weighs 12.59g. One lug is broken but the others are all decorated with one incised ring and dot. One of the central dots is perforated, although this appears to be the result of wear rather than an original feature. From what remains of the broken lug, it was deliberately perforated (hence it is broken but the others are not). The decoration on the main part of the disc is based around circular motifs. There is an outer ring of twenty small circles with traces of red enamel within the sunken ring which defines them. Within this is a more deeply incised circle and inside this there are five small panels of enamel. The central four-pointed star contains blue enamel and the four peripheral pointed ovals contain red enamel. The remains of a hinged pin and catchplate are present on the reverse of the brooch, in line with the perforated lug. This side of the brooch is otherwise flat and undecorated. | 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
199 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Naomi Payne | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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