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Description: | Copper alloy with silver plating, gilding and a translucent turquoise green glass stone of diameter 16.5mm: Plate Brooch, Mackreth British Plate 3b4 (cf no. 10946) with two zones around a central boss. Circular plate with upstanding rim and a concentric upstanding ring within it, surrounding a third raised inward sloping ring forming the cell for a conical glass stone. A guilloche of closely spaced S shaped stamps follows the inner edges of both the outer rim and central ring. The front of the brooch is gilded. The back bears a central rib between the damaged stub of a catch plate retaining the tip of a cast copper alloy pin and paired lugs with the looped end of the pin between them. The back of the brooch is silvered. Suggested date: Late Roman, 200-300.Diameter: 32mm, Thickness (clear of pin gear): 10.7mm, Weight: 12.73gms.
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