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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-A4499D
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Roman copper alloy umbonate plate brooch, 22mm in length, 20mm wide and 1mm thick with a weight of 7.47grams.
The brooch is circular in form and triangular in cross section. It has an incomplete flat outer border which has two intact circular cut outs. Given that they are not in the correct position for suspension loops and the remaining incomplete cut outs have different depths, this would suggest the brooch originally had a series of cut out circles as a border. These would have been interspersed with punched ring and dot motifs. In the centre is a triangular boss contained within a raised collar decorated with notches. The boss is decorated with 8 elongated triangular recesses around a central circular depression. The panels are decorated alternately with blue and red enamel. The reverse of the brooch is hollow and has the remains of a sub rectangular spring housing with a rectangular catchplate on the opposite edge. The brroch appears to have a parallel in IOW-FBC9D5 which has the same border (though I cannot view the enlarged image to confirm).
Class: umbonate
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 250
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 22 mm
Width: 20 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight: 7.47 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Melton (District)
To be known as: Melton (District)
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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