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Description: | Roman (2nd to early 3rd century) plate brooch: The copper alloy brooch is a trefoil in plan, composed of three adjoining circular cells, each of which is decorated with a central pellet and an annulet. In the central field there is light green coloured enamel, which may have originally been red, and the exterior field is filled with mid green enamel, and this may be the original colour. The combination of the three raised circles creates a small triangular cell in the centre of the plate, which is also filled with enamel, possibly the light green. The reverse is flat and undecorated, with the remains of a three coiled spring and the fourth coil becoming the pin. The spring is held in place by an axial bar running between two copper-alloy circular lugs. On the opposite edge there is a larger lug which has a curled upper edge, forming the catchplate. The brooch measures 19.12mm long, 19.76mm wide, 7.31mm thick at the catchplate and weighs 3.1grams.Hattat (1989) illustrates a very similar brooch, No. 1616 and dates it to the 2nd century. Bayley and Butcher (2004, 176) comments plate brooches continued into the early 3rd century. Similar brooches on the PAS database include SUSS-21E171, BH-F3CBB6, and HAMP-8B7D92.Bayley and Butcher, 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection Society of Antiquaries p. 176Hattat, R. 1989 Ancient Brooches and Other Artefacts Oxbow.
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