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Description: | An incomplete enamelled disc brooch of Roman date (AD 80 - 250), missing some of the enamel decoration and the pin. The brooch has suffered some circumferential damage. The brooch is flat (1.40mm) and decorated with a circumferential band, within which is a 10 pointed star with a pellet within each internal angle and within this is a circular band enclosing a central circular recess. There are recesses to hold enamel, the recess between the circumferential band and star contains dark blue or black enamel and the recess around the pellets contains red enamel. The reverse is undecorated, the catchplate and the coil of the spring survive and iron axis bar is visible.The brooch measures 21.50mm in diameter, is 5.50mm thick and weighs 2.99grams.Cf Hattat 1989 page 344, fig. 203, numbers 119 and 1035.
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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