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Description: | Roman copper alloy oval plate brooch of 2nd or 3rd century AD dateThe brooch is of oval form (31.0mm long, 23.3mm wide and with a weight of 8.9g) and is heavily-corroded and incomplete, missing the central setting and pin. The missing pin was sprung and was secured around a single pierced lug, now broken (9.0mm long, 2.0mm thick, with a surviving height of 4.5mm and giving the brooch a surviving depth of 7.7mm). Iron corrosion around the lug suggests an iron pin was employed. The catch-plate is positioned at the base of the rear and is also truncated. The brooch face had a raised border and a decorative rib before the central setting, although corrosion has now masked the decorative detail. There is the suggestion of repeated punched marks flanking the rib. At the centre of the brooch would have been an oval glass setting (18.3mm long and 13.5mm wide), now lost. Traces of gilding survives over areas of the faces. Elsewhere the surface has a pale-green corrosion and red-brown stripped metal.
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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