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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy 2nd-century Roman moulded disc brooch. The circular brooch would have originally had six plain, peripheral lugs; one has been lost along with a small adjoining part of the circumference. The brooch consists of three zones of differing heights, generally flat on the lower surface and moulded on the upper. A central disc measures 14.65mm in diameter with a central perforation 3.0mm in diameter. It has a circumferential raised border and an internal border, bevelling internally towards the hole. The annular cell thus created features segments of blue enamelling at the cardinal points, with traces of red between these. The generally flat border strip is joined to this upper disc by a plain angled section. This latter has a border at its base; there is a further raised border at the circumference. Both are decorated with finely incised transverse lines to give a rope-like effect. The brooch has a maximum height of 10.4mm, including catchplate and pin lug.On the lower surface there is a ridge around the central perforation. A very slightly abraded catchplate that extends across the border and one of the lugs (L.: 6.4mm). On the opposite area of border is a double D-shaped lug, perforated to take a hinged pin. The axis bar and head of the pin have both been corroded in situ, with the rest of the pin lost. As well as this loss and the damaged described above, the central disc has become detached from the angled element around three-quarters of its circumference. Otherwise, this delicate brooch survives well, a variable dull green colour as a result of corrosion.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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