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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy umbonate plate brooch of Roman date. The plate is circular in form with central conical boss and concave back face. Projecting from the top edge of the plate is an integral chain loop that is mostly incomplete due to old breaks. Around the periphery of the plate are a further three evenly spaced semi-circular projections or knops, one at the base and one at each side. The outer edge of the plate is separated from the central boss by a deep circumferential groove. At its base the boss has vertical sides before tapering to produce its conical form. Its surfaces are covered with two bands of recessed enamelled fields. The lower/outer band comprises 14 triangular fields all filled with worn blue enamel. A smaller upper/inner band also has 14, smaller, triangular fields that are now missing any enamel that may once have exited due to post-depositional corrosion. At the top centre the cone has a ring and dot motif. On the back face of the chain loop is an integrally cast double pin lug, missing its pin due to old breaks. On the back face of the semi-circular projection at the base of the plate is an integral catchplate, which is rectangular in form with a folded outer edge. The entire brooch measures 30.91mm in length, 29.07mm in width, 13.26mm in thickness (at pin lug; 6.36 at plate), and weighs 7.98g.This is a Roman umbonate plate brooch with a similar example noted from Hacheston (Blagg et al., 2004: no. 178) and in Hattatt (1989: no. 128). These indicate a date in the 2nd century AD for the current brooch.
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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