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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman disc brooch. It is missing its outer edges, pin, outer edges of the catchplate and some of the enamelling due to old breaks. The brooch is flat, circular in form with enamelled decoration on the front face of the plate. This comprises a central recessed field in the form of a six pointed star that has a projecting central circle that possibly has traces of an added white metal coating. The star shaped field is now missing any enamel it may originally have had due to old breaks. Surrounding the star are six evenly spaced triangular enamelled fields. These retain their enamel, two of which have a blue enamel, the remainder a dark red or black that has suffered from some post-depositional corrosion. The two blue traingles are arranged unevenly within the group of six giving the entire object a slightly unbalanced appearance, perhaps as a result of an error during manufacture(?). The outer edges of the plate are mostly missing due to old breaks and traces of possible added white metal coating are visible on the raised outline of the star shaped central field. On the back face of the plate is an integrally cast double lug that is pierced by a separately cast transverse axis bar retaining parts of the separately cast spring. The majority of the spring and the pin itself are missing due to old breaks. On the opposing side of the plate is an integrally cast semi-circular catchplate, missing its outer edge due to old breaks. The entie objetc has a pale green patina and measures 21.78mm in maximum diameter, 2mm in thickness and 4.07g in weight.This is an incomplete Roman enamelled disc brooch. It finds parallels in examples of disc brooches of British type published by Hattatt (1987: nos. 1041-1043) and probably originally had projecting knops around the outer edge as in the published examples. It is of 2nd century AD date, c.100-200 AD.
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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