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Description: | Roman copper alloy disc brooch dating from 80 to 250 AD. It consists of a circular plate with a raised rim on the front around the outer edge and a catchplate and lug on the back. The front has a raised design consisting of six pellets linked by curving lines around a slightly larger central pellet. The space between the rim and the raised design has been inlaid with glass or enamel, mostly surviving. The brooch has blue inlay at 12 and 6 o'clock and white inlay at 3 and 9 o'clock from the image. The inlay in the middle section surrounding the central pellet now appears green which could have originally been green or possibly red which has oxidised. The brooch is incomplete; the pin is missing from the back. There is a square flat projecting lug on the back. The catchplate is a small trapezoidal shaped plate projecting from the back of the plate which curves at the top to house the pin. The brooch measures approximately 23mm in diameter.There are several examples of this stype of disc brooch on the database including WILT-76A495 similar to this example showing blue and white inlay, YORYM-118A13 showing blue and red inlay and CAM-58EFB4 with no remaining inlay. Hattatt (2000: 344) illustrates a similar example, number 118.
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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