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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman openwork disc brooch dating to the second century AD. The brooch is cirular in plan with four small, rectangular peripheral lugs spaced equidistantly around the rim. The brooch is has an openwork design of four kidney shaped voids each with a rounded tab projecting inwards. This openwork pattern creates an expanded armed cross in the solid frame. The centre of this cross pattern contains two raised concentric circles, the space created between likely to have been filled with red enamel; the void within the rest of the solid frame contains the remains of a light blue enamel. The top and bottom lugs on the outer frame carry the hinge mount and catch plate respectively on the reverse; the pin is missing.No direct comparison could be found in the usual literature however one exact parallel from Market Weighton in East Riding has been recorded on this database (LVPL-E534E7). An example illustrated in Hattatt (2010:345 no. 5380, differs only from the example recorded here in the presence of a raised central boss not the flat moulded cells see here; a small number the boss-type brooches have been recorded on this database: see SF-448571 and SWYOR-C4ED98.
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