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Description: | A cast copper alloy, Roman plate brooch dating from AD 100 - 300. The brooch is oval in shape with a central, raised cell that once contained a gem intaglio or glass setting of some sort but which is now missing. The brooch is decorated with a series of concentric ridges, between which are small, punched designs. Immediately adjecent to the central cell is a small step that is decorated with a series of small, punched dots. There is then a flat area decorated with a series of small, punched crescents before a narrow, ropework ridge and a higher, plain ridge, separated by a V shaped groove. Finally, between this last ridge and the raised outer rim of the brooch is a decoration of saltires in low relief. The whole of the brooch is gilded and much of this gilding remains. The reverse of the brooch carries a catch plate, now bent double, and a single sub-rectangular lug for the pin. 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 40.1mm long, 31.4mm wide and 9.3mm thick. It weighs 20.66gm.Similar brooches are illustrated in Hattat, 2000, A Visual Catalogue of Ancient Brooches, figures 223 and 224 and also in Mackreth, 2011, Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain, volume 2, plate 107, numbers 10871 and 10892.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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