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Description: | A gilded copper alloy Roman wheel-type disc brooch dating to the period c. AD 250 - 370. The brooch consists of a circular disc, the reverse of which is flat and undecorated. It features a single lug for the missing spring pin mechanism with a hooked plate opposite.The obverse is heavily gilded. It has a rasied rim around the outer edge with another concentric circular ridge inside. The space between the ridges is decorated with a circle of stamped saltires. The centre of the disc features a central domed projection terminating in a circular knop surrounded by projecting spokes. There were originally six arms, however, one is missing and two have been bent out of shape. The central dome and the surrounding wheel are separately applied.Comparable brooches are recorded in Snape: 1993, p83, fig 223 and Mackreth: 2011, p110, plate 107. In both these examples the central protrusion terminates with a knop. Although it is a possibility that the domed central projection may also originally have had a knop, there is no indication that the brooch has been damaged in this way. Mackreth dates the brooch as AD250-370. Snape dates the brooch as mid-fourth century. Both Mackreth and Snape comment on the comparative rarity of this type of brooch.The brooch measures 27.72mm in diameter, is 14.90mm thick and weighs 10.52g.
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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