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Description: | A damaged, cast copper alloy disc brooch of early Roman date, AD 100-200. The face carries the remains of a design that was probably of the triskele type though it is not possible to be certain as the brooch appears to have been damaged by fire. The face seems to have a white metal coating that has melted, pooling is a rounded ridge at one side of the brooch. The design may have been enamelled, but no evidence of this survives. The reverse carries the remains of a mounting point for an axis bar and sprung pin, consisting of three raised ridges making three sides of a rectangle containing the pin mechanism, together with the remains of a rectangular catch plate. The brooch is 30.1mm in diameter and 4.6mm thick. It weighs 10.38gm. Similar brooches can be found on the database; compare for example records GLO-EE3BA4 and LANCUM-F50CA6. See also: http://esmeraldamac.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/three-triskele-brooches/ (example 2).
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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