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Description: | Incomplete and corroded copper alloy and enamelled oval plate brooch of Roman date, probably second or third century (AD 100 ? AD 300). Length 27.4mm, width 22.5mm and 1.5mm thick. Weight 4.63g.
The piece is flat and oval in plan and the front is divided into two zones by a reserved metal ridge concentric with the oval outer rim. The central oval field, 11mm in length, is empty but would probably have been filled with enamel. The enamel in the outer field is incomplete and damaged. Originally, it contained eight undivided segments of alternating red and blue enamel, the smaller blue segments being roughly square and situated at the top, bottom and at each side, and the longer segments of red enamel occupying the neighbouring spaces. The reverse is flat and the pin (now missing) would have been aligned on the longest axis of the brooch. There is a single perforated lug to accommodate the iron axis bar, only a small part of which survives within the perforation. The catch-plate is incomplete. The breaks are old and the brooch is in poor condition. | 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
300 | 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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