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Description: | A probable disc brooch, likely to be of Roman date. The artefact is flat and is circular with five knops. Each knop is approximately 4.5 mm wide. No method of attachment survives, but a slightly rougher appearance on one side of the knops may suggest a pin mechanism was applied to this side. The centre of the artefact contains a hollow circular field, 14 mm in diameter. This field was once filled with a bone setting, just over half of which survives. The use of stone or bone in early Roman plate brooches is known, and has been seen as a fore-runner to the use of enamel in the later first to third centuries (Bayley and Butcher 2004, 155). A tentative early Roman date is therefore suggested for this find, perhaps in the mid-first century AD. The brooch measures 24.7 mm across (including knops), whilst the circular centre measues 16.5 mm in diameter. It is 2.1 mm thick and weighs 2.6 grams. As the measn of attachement is uncertain, this object is not certainly a brooch, and it may have fulfilled another function. One such possibility is a seal box lid, although no parallels have yet been found.
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