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Description: | An incomplete Roman copper alloy disc brooch, dating AD 125-300. The object is circular with traces of a hinge and catchplate on the reverse. The front is decorated with a sunburst design, formed of six radiating pellets around a central raised annulet. There is a perforation in the centre of the annulet, which would have likely housed a stud as seen in Mackreth (2011, no.11606). There is a raised border to allow enamel to fill the field of the object, none of which remains. It has a mid-light green patina.A similar example is published in Hattatt (1987, no. 1029). Disc brooches are believed to date from the mid 2nd century into the 3rd century AD (Worrell, unpub).Dimensions: diameter: 19.76 mm; thickness: 5.69 mm; weight: 1.94g.Reference: Mackreth, D. F. 2011. Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain. Oxford: Oxbow.Hattatt, R. 1987. Brooches of Antiquity. Oxford: Oxbow.
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