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Description: | An incomplete Roman cast copper-alloy disc brooch dating to the late 1st/2nd century AD. The brooch is convex (umbonate) and broadly circular, with three opposing protrusions with a fourth probably missing. One of these knops conceals the double semicircular lug in which the pin would have sat; only the head of the pin survives now corroded in place. Opposite, on the longest axis, a collared knop (still attached) conceals a corroded catch-plate. There are two other projections, set at a ninety degree angle from the pin and catch-plate, one is lost, the other is pointed. The upper surface of the brooch is decorated with enamel which is set in small triangular recesses. These are arranged in two circles of fourteen around a central punched dot, and all within a grooved circular border visible on the protrusions. The enamel is retained in a few cells in full, with evidence of it in others. The colours used are red and blue and they are alternated (see Hattatt 1982, 140; ref. 128; cf. also SUSS-3471F7 and HAMP-EB7132 on this database). The artefact has corroded to a mid-green colour, with off-white corrosion product on the lower surface.
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