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Description: | Roman cast copper alloy enamelled umbonate plate brooch, 2nd century AD. Incomplete - the pin and loop are missing. Circular conical plate brooch with central pellet and six drop-shaped cells around forming a sexfoil; the cells are filled with alternating yellow and colourless enamel; there is no outer ring of decoration. Simple border with rocker-arm decoration. Two opposed projections from the edge. The top projection would have formed a double collared loop, but the loop is now broken off. The lower projection is a double collared rounded knop. One the reverse of the top projection is a double lug holding the remains of the copper alloy pin on a copper alloy axis bar; the pin still moves freely; most of the pin is broken off. On the reverse of the lower projection is the now damaged catchplate; file marks on the catchplate. The reverse of the brooch is slightly hollowed and has not been well smoothed during the finishing process. Length 36.0mm, width 20.1mm, thickness including lug/catchplate 11.2mm, thickness across centre 5.2mm, weight 6.75g.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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