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Description: | A Roman copper-alloy plate brooch.The brooch comprises a flat-sectioned disc with circular aperture at the centre, two concentric grooves near the edge and six projecting lugs. These lugs are sub-rectangular, equally spaced and, apart from the lowest, of roughly equal size. The lowest lug is longer and wider than the others, flaring towards its squared-off end. A central casting flash extends vertically on the reverse of the brooch, linking the hinge and catchplate. Located behind the uppermost lug, the hinge comprises two right-angled tabs, separated from one other by a central gap (for the now-missing pin) and linked by an iron axis bar, which is contained within two opposing perforations. The catchplate takes the form of a single right-angled tab and is situated on the reverse of the lowermost lug.Height: 20.8mm; width: 22.2mm; depth: 6.7mm; thickness of plate: 2mm. Weight: 4.18g.Similar brooches, albeit without the peripheral lugs, are nos. 348 and 349 from excavations at Richborough, Kent (Bayley and Butcher 2004: 122-123/Fig. 95). The Richborough examples were considered to have been derived from the mid 1st century 'Rosette' type and offered a similar dating (ibid. 154-155).
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