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Description: | A gilded copper alloy Roman wheel-type disc brooch dating to the period c. AD 250 - 370. The brooch consists of a circular disc plate that has a raised rim around the outer edge with another concentric circular ridge inside, the space between the ridges is undecorated. The centre of the plate is flat with a composite boss riveted in place via a single central rivet. The boss is formed by a central domed section that has five outwardly projecting and evenly spaced flat-semi-circular spokes. The centre of the boss mounts the rivet which has a cone shaped head with a flattened tip.The reverse of which is flat and undecorated. It features a single lug for the missing spring pin mechanism with a hooked plate opposite.Taken from record DOR-532FBDComparable brooches are recorded in Snape: 1993, p83, fig 223 and Mackreth: 2011, p110, plate 107. In both these examples the central protrusion terminates with a knop. Although it is a possibility that the domed central projection may also originally have had a knop, there is no indication that the brooch has been damaged in this way. Mackreth dates the brooch as AD250-370. Snape dates the brooch as mid-fourth century. Both Mackreth and Snape comment on the comparative rarity of this type of brooch.See DOR-532FBD HESH-93EAD7 and WILT-046EC4 for similar examples
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