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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy disc brooch of Roman date (AD 75-200). The brooch is sub-circular in profile and composed of a flat sheet of copper alloy. A single integral, projecting lug is situated at the upper edge of the brooch, it is likely however that such lugs would have continued in a regular repeating pattern around the circumference of the brooch but are now missing due to either an old break or post depositional processes. The reverse retains a minor projection from the catchplate and upper loop for the pin. All missing aspects are so due to old breaks or post depositional processes.The decoration is integral and consists of a partially intact, raised circular outer border with two raised longitudinally running lines with a central pellet between them. To either side of the linear patter, within the outer circular border is a single, semi-circular raised decoration, thus the pattern would have been symmetrical when the brooch was intact.Both surfaces of the object have a mid-cream coloured coating of possible enamel.The metal is a light green in colourHattatt, R. (2000) A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches. Oxbow Books, Oxford. P 345, nos 1040, 1568, 122.Diameter: 21.64mm, Thickness, 1.75mm, Weight: 1.65g.
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