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Description: | Cast copper alloy dragonesque brooch dating to c.75-200 AD.It is mostly complete with just the pin and one nose missing. A curvilinear egg-waisted plate with a pelta-derived appendage at each end, these are the heads. It would have been symmetrical when complete. The central section is split in half long ways, with four panels on each side, the two end ones being pointed as the body narrows. These panels were filled with enamel in a chequerboard pattern, alternating in red and (possibly) yellow. Most of the yellow has gone whilst most of the red remains.Each end of the brooch has a head with a large central circular eye with a red enamel border. The nose then curves back towards the head, ending in a bulbous point with a circle of red enamel. The back of the head extends up away from the eye with grooved lines representing ears.
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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