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Description: | A Roman copper alloy diamond shaped plate brooch with central enamelling. The main shape is bordered by a scalloped edge with ring and dot motifs, overlaid with a diamond mount with inciside edges, and this is overlaid with a smaller diamond shaped mount with enamelling of blue, red and yellow in the centre. There is no surviving pin but the catchplate and pin mounts are present. Some iron residue on the reverse of the brooch may suggest that it may originally have had an iron pin.The centre of the back is a circular hollow measuring 12.73mm in diameter. This brooch has an early date of 1st - 2nd century AD.
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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