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Description: | Cast copper alloy and enamel Roman plate brooch, a skeumorphic type in the form of a sandal, dating to the 2nd century AD.It is mostly complete with just the pin and most of the enamel decoration missing. The brooch is flat and in plan is pointed at one end, has a narrow waist in the middle and is rounded at the other end. There is a loop at the rounded end. On the reverse of the brooch is a double pin lug at the rounded end, with the hinge part of a copper alloy pin surviving between them; and a damaged catchplate at the pointed end.The enamel is mostly missing but from what remains the pattern can be seen. There would have been two raised copper alloy dots, one at the heel and one at the ball. The field was filled with one colour enamel, the fragments remaining have corroded to a light blue, this could originally have been blue, white or green, but the most likely colour is blue.Snape (1993) notes that "They are decorated with spots of enamel to represent hobnails" and that "Sandal brooches may represent the left or the right foot, and may have a rounded or pointed toe. The type is found in Britain and on the Continent".
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