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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy and enamelled lozenge plate brooch of Roman, second century date (AD 100 ? AD 200). Length 29.6mm, width 25.8mm and maximum thickness of the plate, 3mm. Weight 6.38g.
The centre is formed by a raised rim in one stage to form a cell concentric with the lozenge-shaped outline of the brooch. At each side of the brooch are the remains of a peripheral lug. All four of these lugs have old breaks. At the apex is a larger sub-oval-shaped lug. There was originally another lug at the bottom of the plate where there is an old break. The rear is hollow and has a central raised circular feature with a diameter of about 3.5mm, within which is a circular depression. Radiating outwards from the central feature is a series of regularly spaced concentric lathe-turned striations. On the rear face at the apex of the plate are two parallel perforated lugs that contain the remains of a cooper alloy axis bar for the hinged pin (now missing). The lugs are roughly D-shaped, as viewed from the side. Only a stub of the catch-plate survives.
The remains of enamel decoration, apparently part of a complex design, have survived within the cell. At each corner and at the centre of each side of the cell are the remains of small sub-square zones of a blue and white millefiori chequer pattern within a red enamelled border. These chequer patterned areas appear to have been set within a field of yellow or off-white enamel. | 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: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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