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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy and enamelled Roman disc brooch (AD 80 - AD 250), decorated to the front with a triskele design. It is missing its spring mechanism and pin, and the curl of the catchplate. The enamel decoration is also missing, as is most of the edge. The brooch measures 24.01x20.75x3.70mm and weighs 3.87g.The front surface of the brooch is flat, with a raised copper alloy outline of a triskele with a pellet at the end of each arm and another in the centre. Originally, with the enamel inlay, the brooch would have been all the same height (2.22mm) and completely flat. Outside the triskele the metal has a blackish discolouration and the remains of the enamel is now a green colour. The enamel remains inside the triskele are black-coloured.To the reverse is a rectangular housing for the spring (max.thickness). It presumably once had pierced semi-cirular lugs, the tops of which are now broken.The brooch is worn and possibly corroding.Crummy (Crummy 1983, 'Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman Small Finds from Excavations in Colchester 1971-1979') illustrates a similar brooch, ref. 82 and dates it to the 2nd century. Hattatt 1982, 'Ancient and Romano-British Brooches', 138, fig. 58, ref. 120, illustrates a similar brooch. Comparisons recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database are for example WAW-669568, LVLP-1B3042, NMS-CD9A33 and IOW-AC4705.In Roman Brooch Timeline (2007), Worrell dates flat enamelled disc brooches to AD 80-250.
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