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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman umbonate disc brooch. The central conical boss is preserved intact, but the remainder of the plate, the pin and catchplate are all mostly missing due to old breaks. The brooch is circular in form with a large, pointed conical boss at the centre that has a globular knop. A groove separates the central boss from what remains of the surrounding, flat plate. The boss itself has a concave back face and is separated into 16 triangular recessed fields with alternating red and blue enamel. Only a small area of the outer plate survives intact, now mostly incomplete due to old breaks, including what appears to be the base of an integrally cast projecting loop at the top of the brooch, and traces of possible punched decoration at one side. The back face of the brooch is concave and undecorated, with an integrally cast semi-circular double pin lug at the loop/top end of the brooch preserving the corroded remains of an iron pin. The brooch measures 30.50mm in length, 28.26mm in width, 9.19mm in height/thickness, and weighs 8.35g.This is a Roman umbonate plate brooch similar to an example published in Hattatt (1989: no. 1063). It dates to the 2nd century AD.
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