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Description: | A copper alloy Roman plate brooch. It is an Enamelled Umbonate type, decorated with a sunburst motif of two circles of triangular cells. There is a deep groove around the umbo from which four evenly-spaced peripheral lugs project . The uppermost of these is incomplete due to old breaks, and would have terminated with a chain loop. The outer ring of fourteen triangular cells have their blue enamel still intact. The inner ring, also with fourteen cells, has traces of red enamel in some of them. At the centre is a plain circular cell surrounded by a deep groove. On the reverse the pin is in situ, held in place behind the chain-loop lug by a pair of close-set pierced lugs and fixed with a small rivet. The pin is bent at an angle, away from the catchplate set behind the base lug. The brooch measures 24.36mm in diameter, 30.68mm in length and weighs 8.75g. This type of brooch is illustrated in Hattatt, no.1059 with an example from Lincolnshire. It is also known from Suffolk, where a comparable brooch was excavated from Hatcheston ( Blagg et al, 2004, pp102-3, no. 178. It dates to the second century AD.
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