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Description: | Cast copper alloy disc brooch of Roman date (80-250 AD). The brooch is broadly circular in plan. The front face is slightly dished (concave) with a raised cast design formed from slight ridges and recessed panels. There is no enamelled surface - instead the surface is tinned / silvered. The design consists of a central raised annulet which is enclosed by four lobes / petals. From the centre four ribs extend dividing each lobe in half; each rib is decorated with two pellets evenly spaced. The area between the lobes is an irregular triangle shaped panel; each is also decorated with three pellets arranged evenly in a triangle. The circumferential edge of the brooch has a raised ridge around it. The rear of the brooch is flat. The upper part contains an incomplete heavily abraded and damaged pin setting of hinge / spring. On the opposite edge to the spring are the remains of a slight projection most probably a catch-plate. This is cast integral to the brooch and is sub rectangular in plan and profile; the outer edge of the catchplate is abraded and the pin rest lost. The brooch is a mid-light green colour with an even but abraded patina which covers all surfaces. The brooch has been distorted by movement in the plough soil with one edge being removed entirely by movement. This plate brooch is similar to a number recorded in a Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches all of which have been dated to the 2nd century AD figure 203, page 344. A direct parallel has not been found.The brooch measures 24.8mm diameter; is 5.3mm thick across the hinge and 2.0mm thick across the plate of the brooch. It weighs 5.02 grams.
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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