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Description: | Incomplete uncommon Roman cast copper alloy continental plate brooch, Mackreth Type 17b. The brooch has a central, circular plate with a separate bird shaped projection secured by an integral rivet to the centre, head and tail missing. The plate is decorated with two concentric bands with trapezoidal cells of enamel, the inner one with the remains of three black cells alternating with three turquoise cells. The outer band has six red cells alternating with three black and three white cells. One survives of originally two concave-sided trapezoidal plate projections comprising two addorsed crescents containing traces of red enamel, flanking an axe-shaped cell containing turquoise enamel with the remains of twin lugs for the missing pin. The back of the brooch is hollow behind the plate. Diam. 24.5mm. Length 36mm. Cf. Hattatt, nos. 600 and 601, Mackreth (2011), nos. 11660 and 11669. 2nd century.
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