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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy and enamel Roman flat disc brooch with peripheral lugs, missing its spring arrangment and pin and most of the enamel. It measures 22.61mm in length and 16.05mm in width/ diameter. It weighs 3.53g.The brooch depicts an eight-pointed star in copper alloy with a circle at the end of each point. At the centrea 1.89mm diameter boss projects. Between the edge and the star decoration are traces of a degraded (now brown colour) enamel, interestingly in alternate sections as created by the arrangement, perhaps suggesting the use of two colours of enamel, one of which has not survived as well as the other.To one side of the central disc a loop projects, 3.39mm in diameter (internal 1.41mm). To the opposite side a slightly squashed foot projects. It is rather wide, at 3.69mm.To the reverse is a worn catchplate, behind the foot, missing its curl. Below the loop are one lug and one damaged lug with a 'hood' above to protect the (missing) spring. the surviving lug has the remains of the iron axis bar at its centre.In, "Roman Brooch Timeline", Worrell (2007), dates flat enamelled disc brooches to AD80-AD250.Cf. a similar-style brooch from North Rauceby, Lincolnshire (WMID-42F3B2).
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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