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Description: | A worn, incomplete Roman (AD 100-250) copper alloy enamelled umbonate plate brooch, missing some of the enamelling and half of the pin the shank. The lug at the top of the object is incomplete and would have been perforated for use as a chain loop. It measures 31.19x23.97x10.95mm and weighs 5.22g.The brooch has a central dome (concave to the reverse) flanked by a deep groove. The edge around is a little worn but a triangular projection half way between pin lug and catchplate to either side is apparent. At the centre of the dome is ring-and-dot, the dot being pierced (but not continuing to the reverse of the object). Around is a sunburst design of fourteen radiating elongated triangles. Six of these still contain dark blue enamel and appear to alternate with triangles of another colour, possibly red (although little survives). Surrounding these are fourteen rather squatter triangles, ten of which contain dark blue enamel.A pair of D-shaped lugs which hold the axis bar for the pin extend beyond the edge of the brooch. The pin has a triangular head and survives to a length of c.15mm. Directly opposite is the foot, now squashed to one side, with the short catchplate extending (also squashed) behind.A similar example can be found in Hattatt's Visual Catalogue (2000), p.350, fig.128.
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