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Description: | A cast copper alloy Roman disc brooch, from the 2nd Century AD.The brooch comprises a circular, flat plate, with six circular lobes extending out around the edge, at almost equal intervals. Each one has a circular depression, infilled with either a light blue enamel or a whitish-cream enamel. The main plate has a raised rim decorated with short incised lines. Inside the rim there is a circular depression also infilled with enamel, the colour of which is largely indistinct due to the crystallisation that has occurred, at the moment it appears as a light creamy-green colour. In the centre of this there is a flat raised plate of copper alloy, surmounted by a conical knop. The reverse retains the catchplate, but is has been broken. Opposite this, on the longitudinal axis, is the single pierced lug. Through which the spring and pin has been passed, three turns of the spring and the axis bar remain visible. The metal is a mid brownish-green colour and slightly pitted. Similar brooches can be seen in Hattatt, p345, 124.
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