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Description: | A Roman copper alloy, high tin bronze, plate brooch (Conquest period 43-65AD). This is thin plate brooch is crescent-shaped; the two tips of the crescent curve inwards and abut and on each terminal there is a ring and dot motif. Projecting from each side is a circular knop again decorated with a ring and dot motif. On the edge opposite the crescent tips are twin lugs and an axis bar which would have secured another element of the brooch, now missing. The front surface is decorated with an inset circular cell with a central perforation and a ring of transverse ridge and grooves. Other examples of plate brooches sometimes have niello or studs of glass or organic material held in place by rivets or repoussé-decorated metal foil soldered on to the main plate (Bayley & Butcher 2004:155). On the reverse are twin lugs with an iron axis bar securing the pin and a catchplate. The axis bar has corroded and fixed the pin permanently at the furthest reach of its movement.Dimensions: length: 36.53mm; width: 32.77mm; thickness: 1.55mm; weight: 6.12g.References: Bayley, J. and Butcher, S. 2004. Roman Brooches in Britain. The Society of Antiquaries, London.Hattatt, R. 2000. A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches. Oxbow Books, OxfordType 24d1 e.g. from Lézignan, Corbières, Gaujac in M. Feugère 1985, Les Fibules en Gaule Méridionale de la conquête à la fin du V siècle après J.-C. Revue Archéologique de Narbonnaise, Supplément 12, Pl. 147 no. 1854
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