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Brooch
Unique ID: NMGW-DF5163
Object type certainty:
Roman copper alloy enamelled disc brooch of 2nd century AD date. The brooch is circular and comparatively small with no surviving peripheral lugs, but the suggestion of a single small loop adjacent to the hinge and unusually, no corresponding loop or lug opposite. The brooch employed a hinge mechanism with twin lugs and an iron axis bar. The face of the brooch has a plain border before a recessed panel containing a motif composed of alternating enamel and glass paste cells. The enamel is a bright orange, while the glass paste is in a millifiori square motif consisting of a blue/white background enclosing an outer border in alternating black and white squares, followed by a red open square which encloses a white square at the centre. The glass paste motif only survives in one of the five panels. The orange enamel survives slightly better with traces in four of the five panels. At the centre of the face is a raised circular panel decorated with a row of punched dots in a shallow groove. There is a separate central soldered boss, with the pin discernible on the rear of the brooch. The boss has concave sides and a rounded top.
Class: Disc
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Width: 19.8 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight: 2.5 g
Diameter: 18.9 mm
Quantity: 1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Spatial data
Region: Wales
County: Vale Of Glamorgan
District: Vale Of Glamorgan
Parish: Llancarfan
Restricted 4 Figure grid reference: ST0372
The map has been degraded and provides an approximate location with a degree of random obfuscation.
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
Method of discovery: Metal detector
[scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st February 2004
Personal details
Found by: This information is restricted for your login.
Identified by: Mr Mark Lodwick - [view all attributed records]
Other reference numbers
Other reference: NMGWPA 2004.40.1
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Created:
Tuesday 9th March 2004
Updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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