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Description: | Incomplete Roman copper alloy and enamel decorative stud, presumably intended for fixing to leather. It is missing most of the enamel but is otherwise complete.
It is 20.6mm in diameter and 2.4mm thick, weighing 4.20g. The shaft on the reverse is square in section (3.3mm at base, 2mm at opposite end) and c.6mm long.
The stud has a 1.5mm wide rim which is decorated with tiny transverse incised lines. At the center of the stud is an boss area 2.3mm in diameter and 1mm deep - presumably missing a setting. It is surrounded by a rim 0.7mm wide. Between this and the outside rim is another, halfway, and 0.8mm wide. Thus two areas are created which hold the remiains of enamel.
The area nearest the outside edge has the remains of a browny-orange enamel, alternating with empty spaces (which we assume were once filled, although no trace remains now). The spaces and enamel remains are clearly defined, so we can deduce there were originally twelve roughly equally-sized areas, six of browny-orange enamel and six of another ?enamel.
The area around the central (empty) boss has four larger patches of browny-orange enamel interspersed with a tiny sliver of a very vibrant orange enamel, which seems to have survived rather better than the duller colour.
Cf examples in Crummy 1983, The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-9 , fig.121 'enamelled studs'. Presumably these are akin with the 2nd century brooches which are so similar in style and design. | 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: | 101
200 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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