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Description: | An incomplete and worn cast copper-alloy Roman plate brooch. It is missing one side, most of the pin lug, catch plate and pin due to old breaks. The plate is lozenge shaped with projecting globular knops on each corner of the lozenge, one of which is now missing due to old breaks. If the front face of the plate originally carried any decorative these are now missing or obscured by post-depositional damage and wear. The back face of the plate has a slightly raised central rectangular ridge with the remains of an oval shaped double pin lug at one end and an incomplete catchplate at the other. It measures 18.57mm in length, 13.41mm in width, 1.76mm in thickness, and weighs 1.25g.Ths is a small and incomplete Roman plate brooch of lozenge form. It is similar to an example noted in Hattatt (1989: no. 1580) and dates to between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD, c.43-300 AD.
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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