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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 around the front 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. It is likely that the space between the rim and the raised design would have been inlaid with glass or enamel which is now lost. The brooch is incomplete; the pin is missing from the back and c. 5% of the plate is missing to an old break. It has also suffered some damage that has resulted in a slight bend to the plate. There is a square flat projecting lug at the top with a circular hole for the pin to attach. The catchplate is a small trapezoidal shaped plate projecting from the back of the plate which would have curved at the top to house the pin. The curved section is now broken and worn.It measures 21.9mm in diameter and 5.4mm in thickness including the lug and catchplate, 0.9mm excluding. It weighs 2.57g.There are several examples of this stype of disc brooch on the database including YORYM-118A13 showing blue and red inlay, WILT-76A495 showing blue and white inlay and CAM-58EFB4, similar to this example 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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