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Description: | An incomplete Roman (AD 80-250) copper-alloy disc brooch. It is incomplete so far as the pin is missing and there is some damaged to the catch plate and circumference. It measures 21.2x17.5x1.6mm and weighs 2.2g.The brooch is circular in form and rectangular in section, and consists of a central circular raised area followed by a six pronged star with circular protrusions at each point. The cell between these raised areas would have been filled with coloured enamel none of now which survives. The star is surrounded by a circular border to which there has been some loss to. The reverse of the brooch is flat with an incomplete copper alloy catch plate which runs a third of the way in, the pin is missing.Similar brooch can be found on the database; LEIC-269CE5, where it is commented that this brooch is similar to one in Hattatt's Visual Catalogue; no: 118 in fig. 203.
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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