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Description: | Copper alloy and glass, gilded and silvered or tinnedBrooch. Plate brooch of Mackreth (2011) Type 3b. Cast oval plate with raised rim, a broad sunken border decorated with a series of semi-circular stamps and then gilded, with a central setting with raised rim. The setting retains a dark blue conical pointed stone. The back of the brooch bears white metal plating and retains a lug for the pin (which is lost) and a folded catch-plate; the survival of both yellow and white metal coating is very good. Suggested date: Later Roman, 200-300.Length: 25.4mm, Width: 20.9mm, Thickness (at stone, clear of fastening gear): 9.4mm,Weight: 6.88gms.
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