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Description: | An incomplete Roman copper-alloy and gilded disc/plate brooch (AD 200-350).This brooch would have been circular in plan prior to being damaged. At the front, the surviving edges are flat with traces of gilding. It has a circular cell formed by a circular ridge. The cell may have contained enamel, paste or glass. There are stamped annulet-like motifs on the front at the catch-plate end. The rear face is flat with a relatively narrow central vertical rib. One end of the rib has an incomplete pierced lug and the opposite end has an incomplete catch-plate.This brooch is corroded with gilding at the front and a white metal coating at the rear.Length: 20.7mm; width: 17.9mm; thickness: 2.9mm; thickness including catch-plate: 5.6mm. Weight: 2.38g.Similar brooches have been published (Hattatt 1982: 167, fig. 71. refs: 174-175; Bayley and Butcher 2004: 135, fig. 101, refs: 389-390).Hattatt, R., 1982 Hattatt, R., 1982 Ancient and Romano-British brooches. Sherborne: Dorset Publishing. Sherborne: Dorset Publishing.Bayley, J. and Butcher, S. 2004. Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study based on the Richborough Collection. Society of Antiquaries.
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