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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy and enamelled umbonate brooch of Roman date (AD 100 ? AD 200). Length 27.0mm, width 22.3mm and thickness of plate, 3.8mm. Diameter of umbo 17.0mm. Weight 3.84g.
A plate brooch of umbonate type, circular and domed at the front and mainly concave at the rear. It has a deep groove running all around, close to the perimeter. Originally, the brooch had four knobs protruding from the umbo; one at each side, one at the top which is perforated as a chain loop and one at the bottom which hides the catch-plate. However, the right hand knob and also part of the peripheral groove that it was attached to are broken and missing. The chain loop is also incomplete. A small circular cell at the apex of the umbo has a diameter of about 1.8mm and is surrounded by a concentric circular groove with an outer diameter of 3.6mm. Both of these features are now empty but may have originally been filled with a decorative material, probably enamel. Surrounding the centre of the plate are two circles of triangular cells filled with enamel. The smaller inner circle consists of fourteen cells filled with red enamel and the larger outer circle has larger cells which are about twice the size of those forming the inner circle. These outer cells are filled with blue enamel. On the reverse the periphery is flat and the central area is concave. At the top of the reverse are two incomplete and closely aligned parallel perforated lugs to take a bar for the hinged pin. These are situated partly behind the plate and partly behind the chain-loop. The bar and the hinged pin are missing. Just a stub of the catch-plate has survived and is situated at the bottom, to the rear of the basal knob. The surfaces of the brooch are corroded and are green/bright green. Some of the enamelling is decayed. All the breaks are old. | 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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