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Description: | An incomplete Roman cast copper-alloy plate brooch (c. AD 100-200).This brooch consists of four conjoined discs forming a lozenge at the centre. Each disc comprises a cell with a copper-alloy pellet at its centre. The lozenge is also a cell and has a copper-alloy pellet at the centre. Light green residue in the discs may be decayed enamel. At the rear, on the same alignment, there is an incomplete pin lug and an incomplete catch-plate.The pin-lug has a break across the perforation and the curled-over part on the catch-plate is missing.There is some circumferential loss of material around the discs. Traces of a khaki green patina are present and the breaks are old. The pin is missing.A similar brooch found in eastern Yorkshire has been published (Hattatt 1989: 156, fig. 73, ref: 1615).Hattatt comments that this form in Britain is very widespread, one from Yorkshire, one from Norfolk, one from Brighton, Sussex and one from Nor'nour in the Scilly Isles.Height: 27.74mm; width: 24.96mm; thickness: 5.32mm. Weight: 4.36g.
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