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Description: | A Roman openwork plate brooch of unusual form, inlaid with enamel and with the remains of a catchplate and two lugs for the pin.The brooch has a crescentic area of enamel, divided into three fields. The central one is square and contains what was probably originally white (or very pale opaque blue) enamel. The fields to either side contain the remains of the red enamel that originally filled them and two petals or pellets in reserved metal. Over the catchplate is an abraded central protruberance that may originally have been an animal head/snout as there are hemispherical hollows to either side that would have held glass spheres (perhaps intended to represent eyes). There may be traces of tinning surviving on the back near the catchplate.
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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