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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy equal-ended plate brooch of Roman date. The upper half of the brooch and pin are all missing due to old breaks. The surviving half of the brooch is flat with an arched profile and has a transverse rectangular panel at the centre. This panel is decorated on the front face with a transvers row of three ring and dot motifs that have pierced central dots, beneath which is a row of incised diagonal grooves. To either side of the central panel are short arms with projecting hemispherical knops that have grooved collars.The lower half of the plate curves downards to the foot, is triangular in form and decorated on the front face with numerous punched dots arranged to form a V-shaped motif. At the foot is a transverse collar followed by a constricted neck and projecting hemispherical knop. On the back face of the foot is an incomplete, integrally cast catchplate that is semi-circular in form and missing its outer edges due to old breaks. The front face of the brooch has an added white metal coating. It measures 24.29mm in surviving length, 30.48mm in width and 2.65mm in thickness at central knops, and weighs 2.25g.This is an incomplete Roman plate brooch with near identical parallels published by Hattatt (1989: nos. 562, 1114). It is of 'Equal-ended' type and dates to the 2nd century AD.
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