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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Roman symmetrical plate brooch of the second century AD, missing the head with the hinge, the pin and most of the catchplate. Broadly the brooch is formed of two equal triangles arranged base to base along the centre of the brooch with a raised band across the centre. The raised band is divided into two horizontally by an indented line and both halves are decorated with regularly spaced incised diagonal lines. The back is plain and the triangles are almost flat, thinning slightly to the edges.At the foot is a circular stud with a recessed front filled with a whitish substance and possibly some blue enamel. It is likely there was a similar stud at the head, now lost to the old break. On the back of the foot running from the base of the stud slightly into the plate is a raised central ridge, the worn remains of the catchplate.The brooch is now 29.1mm long, 14.8mm wide and 1.7mm thick, 4.6mm including the catchplate. It weighs 2.47 grams.Mackreth (2011: 178) discusses this group of brooches, dividing flatter versions such as this from the others and suggests excavated examples are mostly second century.
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