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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Roman plate brooch, a conical umbonate type dating from the 2nd or early 3rd century. The brooch is circular with a conical centre and about two thirds of it survives. The centre is decorated with six radial triangular cells filled alternately with red and blue enamel. There is a groove round the base of the cone, and then a flat rim. Protruding from the edge of this are six or seven (four surviving) lobes, probably originally circular, but none survive complete. There each have a ring and dot motif, but are not enamelled. Traces of silvering survives on the plate and lugs. The reverse of the brooch is hollow. There is a double lug for the pin, with part of the copper alloy pin and the copper alloy axis bar surviving. Part of a suspension loop also survives, formed by piercing the lug in front of the pin lug. The metal has a dark brown patina. The brooch is similar to number 1063 on page 350 of Hattatt's Visual Catalogue, but a very close parallel is SWYOR-CFABD2.
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