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Description: | A small, cast copper alloy, Roman flat enamelled disc brooch dating from AD 100 - 200. The face of the disc carries a design consisting of a central, circular spot of copper alloy surrounded by a concave-sided hexagon with a small copper alloy circle on each of the cusps. The brooch is in very good condition, with all of the enamel remaining. The interior of the hexagon is red and the remainder of the design is black. The reverse of the brooch carries a flat, sub-rectangular lug for the pin and the remains of the catch plate. The pin lug is pierced and the piercing contains the remains of a ferrous pin; the remainder of the pin is missing. The brooch is 21.9mm in diameter and 7mm thick. It weighs 4.27gm.Similar brooches are illustrated in Hattat, 2000, A Visual Catalogue of Ancient Brooches, figure 203, number 118 and in Mackreth, 2011, Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain, volume 2, plate 105, number 11599.
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