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Description: | Roman copper alloy flat, enamelled disc brooch (triskele motif) of 2nd century AD dateThe disc brooch is near-complete, with some peripheral damage (with a diameter of 19.7mm and weight of 4.8g). The sprung pin with internal chord is secured around a single, pierced lug (giving an overall depth of 6.5mm) with an iron axis bar. The catch plate is intact (with a height of 4.8mm, and a length of 6mm). The circular disc face (with a thickness of 1.5mm) is decorated with enamel within a raised border. The decorative device is a triskele in red enamel and within a cell defined by a copper alloy border. Outside of the triskele is blue enamel. Each of the three arms of the triskele terminated in a raised circular copper alloy pellet, now eroded (with a diameter of 3.2mm and a surviving height of 1.1mm) and there is a fourth pellet at the centre. The surface has a dark-green patina with the suggestion that the border rim and circular pellets may have been tinned or silvered.The brooch can be paralleled with an example recorded by Hattatt (1982, p. 139, no 120) found near Ipswich, Suffolk. The Ipswich brooch is almost identical in shape and decoration, with an outer blue enamel, although the inner enamel is now discoloured. Hattatt describes the pattern as a native design and also draws parallels with Hull's type 255 (Hattatt, 1985, p. 142).
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