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Description: | A cast copper alloy, Roman flat enamelled disc brooch dating from AD 100 - 200. The face of the disc carries a design in low relief consisting of a central annulet surrounded by a ring of thirteen pellets, all within a star of thirteen points and a raised rim. The interstices of the design carry traces of enamel. Between the outer rim and the star the enamel is dark blue in colour and much of this remains in place. Traces of green enamel remain in place in the area surrounding the ring of pellets and a very small trace of enamel remains within the central annulet; this was also probably dark blue. The reverse of the brooch carries the remains of a double lug for the sprung pin and part of the catch plate; the pin is missing, but traces of corrosion sugges that it was copper alloy and a spring type. The brooch is 26mm in diameter and 6.9mm thick. It weighs 4.88gm.Similar brooches are illustrated in Hattat, 2000, A Visual Catalogue of Ancient Brooches, figure 203, numbers 119 and 515. Compare also Mackreth, 2011, Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain, volume 2, plate 105, number 11638.
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