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Description: | A Roman cast copper alloy enamelled disc brooch. The body of the brooch is sub circular in plan and rectangular in section, with twelve evenly spaced integral lugs situated around the periphery. The front face is decorated with a pierced six-pointed mullet which is filled with red enamel. The central void and the gaps between the mullet arms and the edge of the brooch are filled alternately with green and blue enamel, some of which is missing. On the reverse of the brooch, to one edge, there are two radially aligned sub-semicircular flat lugs that are separated by a 5mm gap. Each lug has a circular hole through its thickness which are spanned by a circular cross-sectioned copper alloy bar. The bar acts as a hinge for the copper alloy pin, a small part of which remains coiled around the bar. Diametrically opposed to this hinge mechanism on the opposite edge of the brooch there is a similar unpierced radially aligned catchplate. The catchplate is broadly semi circular in shape with some damage to its edge, it is canted over at an approximate 50 degree angle to the flat body of the brooch. Similar brooches are illustrated in Hattatt, A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches (2007) p345, Fig 204, Nos. 1041, 1042, 1043, 526. The brooches are generally dated to the 2nd century AD. The brooch is dark green in colour, 20.3mm in diameter, 1.6mm thick (not including lugs) and weighs 2.86g.
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