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Description: | Copper alloy Plate Brooch with enamel traces, Mackreth type PL CONT 9.b. A flat disc with six equidistantly spaced discoid cells projecting from its outer edge. Circumferential decoration of the plate comprises an outer band of bordered and billeted relief decoration, a sunken zone or cell retaining (now) red traces of colorant, and a plain central zone with central aperture of diameter 2.7mm, which probably retained a separate projecting boss, now lost (cf. Mackreth Plate 116 nos 11041-11042). The back has an integrally cast and folded catch plate and paired lugs retaining the stub of a possibly sheet metal pin on an iron spindle. Suggested date: later Roman, 250-400.Diameter: 29.7mm, Thickness (clear of fastening gear): 1.4mm, Weight: 4.17gms.
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