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Description: | An incomplete Roman copper-alloy and enamelled disc brooch (AD 100-200).The pin is missing.At the front it has a central circular cell formed by an annulet and a wide border composed of thirteen raised inward pointing chevrons which form numerous small cells. Between each point of the chevron there is a small pellet. On the rear face, a pair of parallel perforated lugs that secure a copper-alloy axis bar contain the majority of a copper-alloy spring mechanism. The complete catch-plate is trapezoidal.This brooch is partially corroded with a green patina. The central cell contains flecks of a buff material that may be the remains of enamel. Between the annulet and the chevrons a patch of enamel is now coloured red.Diameter: 21.68mm; thickness of plate: 1.43mm; overall thickness: 5.80mm. Weight: 3.66g.A similar brooch has been recorded from Towcester Parish, Northamptonshire. See Portable Antiquities Scheme find: BUC-EC07F2.Cf Hattat 1989: 117. fig. 55, ref: 1562.
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