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Description: | Roman copper alloy plate brooch. Oval plate with an inner and outer raised rib around a central setting containing a pointed oval dark brown or black glass stone, the glass cracked and with a chip missing. The fields between the ribs are filled with pairs of tiny stamped lines with an annulet at each end. On the reverse is a broken pin-lug and complete but squashed rectangular catch-plate. The pin is missing. The front of the brooch is gilded and the reverse tinned.Length 33mm. Width 26mm. Height (including glass but excluding pin-lug and catch-plate 8mm.For similar examples see Hattatt (2000, 364, fig.223, no.1213, 1647 and 643. 2nd - 3rd century.
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