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Description: | Roman copper alloy brooch, Hod Hill variant with traces of gilding & possibly enamelling. The head is damaged, the pin and central mounting are absent. From the sub-rectangular head the bow narrows and is decorated by three horizontal ribs It then widens to a flat circular plate with a central sub circular perforation and two concentric impressed circles. From this a rounded knop protrudes from each side. There is then a further set of horizontal ribs and on the underside of the brooch at this point the catchplate starts and continues down to the knopped foot. There are traces of gilding to the entire outer face of the brooch except for within the inner concentric circle. There is also what appears to be traces of degraded enamel but this may also relate to the gilding process. Dates to between 43 and 100 AD.The head is 15mm wide, the catch plate 21mm long and 6mm wide. The total length is 49mm, width 18mm, depth 6mm, and the weight 4.71g.Similar brooches on the database are SUSS-B0FA01, LIN-431AF3, LIN-9BEC36, and DENO-976191.The object description for SUSS-B0FA01 states, "A close parallel has been published in Mackreth (2011, Plate 96, No. 9382), which has been identified by the author as being a 'descendent of the Rosette type married to the basic form of the Hod Hill' (Ibid., p141, No. 9). Mackreth discusses the central aperture in the circular plate and suggests that the central hole would have secured a separately-made cup with inlaid red enamel. Mackreth suggests that this type would date from the Conquest to the mid-Flavian period."
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