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Description: | Roman copper alloy circular plate brooch with a sprung pin, and decoration comprising a sexfoil reserved on an enamelled ground. The inner part of the flower, apart from a reserved central dot, was also inlaid with enamel, of which surviving specks show was red. The surrounding enamel has been lost. As is normal with this type, an applied white-metal sheet has also disappeared from the front face. On the reverse there is a single pin lug. Cf Hattatt 2000, fig. 203 no. 118 and Mackreth 2011, pl. 105 no. 11599. Mackreth's (ibid., 156) British Plate type 2.b. Diameter 21mm. 2nd century.Found in area 13 on annotated map in file. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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