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Description: | Copper alloy with iron and enamel Stud. Sub-spherical or onion shaped stud with a hollow back with central collar of diameter 7.5mm retaining the stub of an iron pin of diameter 4.8mm. The outer surface bears twenty eight sunken compartments retaining brick red enamel. These comprise a basal circumferential ring, twenty six triangular compartments, mostly ascending in series of three, and a circular apical cell which has a central spot of a yellowish tint, either intrusive or a solitary element of a different coloured enamel.The object stands rather proud to have decorated a scabbard, though the iron pin is too flimsy to suggest this to be a linch pin terminal, and may simply be intended for secure fixing to its setting. The extensive use of monochrome enamel began in the later pre-Roman Iron Age, but continued thereafter. Suggested date: Early Roman, 40-100.Diameter: 17.6mm, Height: 17.4mm, Thickness (outer wall):3.2mm, Weight: 16.91gms.
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