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Description: | An incomplete Roman copper-alloy and enamelled plate (disc) brooch (AD 80-250).The edges of the brooch are largely missing and prior to being damaged it would have had peripheral lugs. At the front, four swirling or curving arms form four teardrop/piriform cells. Two opposite cells contain fragments of decayed and discoloured enamel now coloured bluish green. The other two cells are empty. At the centre of the arms a small lozenge-shaped cell is also filled with decayed enamel of the same colour. The rear face is flat and has the remains of a perforated pin-lug and catch-plate. There is corroded iron around the lug.This brooch is corroded and green with patches of an olive green patina at the rear.Height: 20.2mm; width: 18.1mm; thickness: 3.2mm. Weight: 2.05g.A similar brooch has been published (Hattatt 1985: 144-145, fig. 61, ref: 528). Hattatt refers to the curving arms as a curved swastika.Similar brooches have been recorded on The Portable Antiquities Scheme database. See finds: DENO-788161; NLM-ABF596; SF-F61813 and WILT-CC3735.Hattatt, R. 1985. Iron Age and Roman Brooches. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
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