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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Roman (AD c.100-c.200) umbonate plate brooch, missing a fragment from one edge, the tips of its peripheral lugs, the pin and the curl of the catchplate. Overall, the brooch measures 33.4mm long, 28.9mm wide and 12.4mm thick. It weighs 6.04g. The brooch is formed from a 1.2mm thick copper-alloy plate. The brooch has eight peripheral lugs, two of which are missing, and five are broken or very worn. One of the surviving lugs, positioned at the top in front of the hinge of the pin, is actually an incomplete loop. The lug at the opposite edge to the loop is the most complete because the catchplate on the reverse has given it extra thickness. It is decorated with a recessed ring-and-dot, and the remains of the other lugs show that they also had this decoration on them. There is a recessed ring around the edge of the brooch measuring 21.6mm in diameter. Within this ring is a circular dome measuring 18.2mm in diameter and 6.7mm thick. The dome is decorated with two concentric rings of triangular cells of enamel. The inner cells contain red enamel and the outer ones contain blue enamel. At the centre there is a small trace of some black enamel, which may have been held in a circular cell. The reverse of the dome is hollow. The hinge lug and the catchplate are partially intact on opposite sides of the plate.A similar brooch can be seen in Hattatt, p.350, Fig. 209, no.1574.There is a crack running from the right of the bottom lug into the central dome.
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