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Description: | A corroded and incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman disc brooch (2nd century AD). The brooch is now sub-circular in plan having suffered abrading and losses to its circumference. Its upper face features two raised concentric rings: one towards the circumference and a central, thick ring with a small, central depression. To the outer edge of the brooch which has been badly damaged, are finely incised S-shaped incisions which would have run the whole way round the edge. The catch-plate and pin lug are at either end of a continuous low ridge on the lower surface; both have been abraded and the pin lug broken through resulting in the pin's absence. This brooch has now corroded to a light-green colour with patches of tinning on the lower surface. A similar moulded disc brooch can be found illustrated in Hattatt (2000, 346; ref. 517).
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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