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Description: | Incomplete Roman copper alloy horse-and-rider brooch, broken behind the right-facing rider, rear end of horse missing, the head of the horse and part of the fore-legs missing. Blue enamel survives in a rounded trapezoidal cell on the horses flank, three irregular cells on the body of the rider contain red enamel, small dot for the rider's eye. Stump of broken catch-plate on reverse, pin and pin-lugs missing. Length >15.5mm x >23mm. Mackreth Type 2.1b, Vol.1, 181, Vol.2, 127, no.7921. Late 2nd-late 4th century AD.
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