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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman plate brooch of the gilded glass centre-boss type. The brooch is circular, with a raised border and raised circle within. At its centre is an even higher circular setting with a raised punched ring at its centre; the glass 'jewel' is now missing. Within the external register within the borders there is fine S-shaped punched decoration, as seems characteristic of these brooches (see refs. below). Within the internal register are two rows of facing punched triangles. Gilding survives well over these areas. On the lower surface of the brooch is a slightly squashed catch-plate at one end and a sub-triangular pin lug at the other. The pin is missing, but iron staining around the lug suggests that it would have been made of iron; the single lug suggests that it would have been sprung. This lower surface retains traces of tinning. The metal, where it is not covered by green corrosion product is of a red-brown colour. Similar brooches can be found illustrated in Hattatt (2000, 364; refs. 174, 640).
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