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Description: | Fire-damaged Roman disc brooch dating from the Roman period, c. AD100-300. The brooch is extremely worn. Originally the object would have been circular in plan and it would have featured a circular border around an inlaid glass stone which is molten in the fire. The border is gilded with good preservation. TThe back of the brooch is flat and undecorated with no evidence of gilding. The pin rest and the hinge for the pin are still in place although everything is very damaged and distorted. The pin is missing, but the spring and its mechanisn are still visible through the iron corrosion.Similar examples are listed in Hattatt as gilded glass centre-boss type and are dated to the 2nd or 3rd century AD. There are also examples recorded on the PAS database, see records SUR-003BA1, SWYOR-492CA2, DUR-873B16 and SF-8F28D4.
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