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Description: | A gilt copper alloy composite disc brooch consisting of back-plate, ring with radiating petals and central boss. On the front face the chamfered edge of the back-plate rises as a slight rim, and is concentric with an inner rib between which there is an engraved concentric wavy line. Within this the five spokes or petals radiate from a ring held in place by a central, riveted conical boss with a globular terminal. On the reverse there is the stump of a catch-plate and a single pin lug with a perforation filled with decayed iron, and the end of the central rivet. Diameter 26mm. Thickness at rim 2mm. Thickness in centre 7mm. Weight 12.63g.Cf. a larger example from Carleton Rode (HER 34589), and Hattatt 2000, fig. 224 nos. 548-51, 1215-6 and 1645. There is some similarity to a brooch from Pooles Cavern near Buxton, Derbyshire, on which a less prominent boss lies within four spokes (Branigan and Dearne, Current Archaeology 126 (1991), 249). Ralph Jackson (British Museum) suggests that it is some sort of 2nd-century tutulus type.
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