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Description: | A Roman copper-alloy umbonate plate brooch.The upper surface of the oval, domed brooch has a circular cell at its centre; this is surrounded by two concentric rings of triangular cells, which point towards the centre and retain most of their insets. All of the outer cells have blue settings; the inner ring has two blue settings, two red and two that are empty. A circumferential groove and outer rim surround the domed centre of the brooch, there is a right-angled lug projecting from the centre of the right- and left-hand sides, a larger such lug at the base and a damaged chain loop at the apex. On the reverse, the two right-angled hinge tabs extend backwards from the base of the chain loop, with a remnant of the pin between them. The catchplate is located behind the basal lug and has a rolled outer side. The pin would originally have straddled the hollow central area at the back of the plate.Height: 32.6mm; width: 27.1mm; depth: 12mm. Weight: 5.76g.Two similar brooches were found at Richborough, where they were dated to the 1st century AD (Bayley and Butcher 2004: fig. 99, nos. 382 and 383/p. 173). The generally accepted date range for these brooches, however, is 2nd to mid 3rd century AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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