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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy plate brooch of Roman date AD 43 - AD 100). Length 33mm, width 22, maximum thickness 3mm. Weight 5.67g.
The central part of the brooch, which has a length of 26mm and a width of 22mm, is oval in plan, flat at the front and hollow at the rear. Around the upper edge of this oval part is the remains of an outer flanged plate. At the rear the oval part is slightly hollow and the flanged plate is flat. At the centre of the rear is a small raised circular feature which has a diameter of 4.5mm and at the centre of this feature is a circular depression which has a diameter of 2.0mm. There are two parallel D-shaped lugs at the top of the flange on the rear of the brooch. These accommodated a pin bar which is lost. The perforations for the bar are filled with copper alloy. Within the oval part of the brooch the front face is decorated with two lathe-turned disc-shaped features which are on the same alignment on the minor axis. These features each have a diameter of 7mm and at each centre is a small circular depression, 1.8mm in diameter, which also appears to have been created with the use of a lathe. The bottom of these depressions are rounded and one has a small deposit of an indeterminate red substance. The areas above and below the discs, formed by the periphery of the discs and the outer edge of the oval part of the brooch, are pelta-shaped.
This brooch is in poor condition. It is corroded and has several fractures on the oval part | 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: | 43
100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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