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Description: | A Roman disc brooch dating from 80 - 250 AD. The brooch is circular and is damaged in the centre where there is now a hole through the disc. The decoration on the front is in concentric circles. The outermost raised band has a solid outer edge and scalloped inner edge. Blue enamel fills the space between this band and the next which is a narrow plain raised line. The recessed area inside the line contains and ring of raised metal dots. This area probably would have been enamelled but it is all missing. Inside is a raised plain wide circle, with a recessed circular area in the centre of the brooch. This may have originally been a setting or enamelled, but is now damaged. There are suggestions of a white metal coating on the metal, but none is surviving. On the reverse is a raised rectangle from which project two pin lugs, now damaged. The axis bar and pin are missing. The catchplate is almost complete. The copper alloy has a dark orange colour with bright green corrosion where damaged. A similar brooch is number 1564 on page 344 of Hattatt's Visual Catalogue. The design is almost identical.
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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