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Description: | An incomplete and worn copper-alloy plate brooch of Roman date. It is missing its pin due to old breaks and has very worn surfaces, perhaps missing part of one side of the plate. The upper half of the plate is disc shaped in form with single projecting semi-circular knops around its edge at top centre and at the centre of both sides. At the centre of the front face is moulded decoration comprising a central circle surrounded by two concentric circles. The base of the plate has a narrow neck before flaring to a triangular terminal with concave bottom edge. This lower half of the plate also has the remains of moulded decoration, perhaps formed from vertical ribs or groopves, but their precise form is uncertain due to the preservation of the object. On the back face of the brooch there is an integrally cast semi-circular double pin lug at the top, with corresponsing semi-circular catchplate at the bottom, missing the pin due to old breaks. The entire object measures 31.75mm in length, 19.52mm in width, 1.98mm in thickness and 3.76g in weight. This is an incomplete copper-alloy plate brooch of Roman date. It finds parallels in examples published by Hattatt (1989: nos. 510A, 1559, 1560) and is of probable early Roman date, c.1st century AD.
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