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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman flat- enamelled disc brooch dating to the second century AD. The brooch consists of a discoidal body and a two raised semi-circular spring lugs on the reverse still holding a copper-alloy wire chord loop, which passes underneath the remains of the spring. The remains of the spring consists of the central coil which terminates in the pin; the pin is now missing 75% of its length. Positioned on the opposite circumferential edge from the spring lugs is the sub-triangular catchplate, still mostly intact.. The outer surface of the brooch has been elaborately decorated, first with a raised sexfoil design and large central flattened pellet. Within the flower itself are traces of red enamelling and black enamel decorates the recessed spaces between the petals and the outer edge of the brooch. A thin raised circumferential edge completes the decoration.The brooch is nearly complete, missing only appromiately two spring coils and a portion of its pin; the outer surface decoration is missing some of its red and black enamel, but is otherwise intact. The metal is of a dark green patina. The brooch measures 20.84 mm diameter, 1.6 mm thick (at plate), 5.3 mm thick (with lugs) and weighs 3.49 grams. Cf. Hattatt 2007, p. 344, nos. 518 and 118.
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