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West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, 2015-04-29 16:19:34 |
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Roman millefiori disc brooch |
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| Description |
English: A copper alloy disc brooch dating from AD 150 - 300 and decorated with millefiori. About two thirds of the metal backplate survives, but less of the glass decoration. The circular plate is suggested to be a disc brooch because a barely perceptible thickening on the reverse is probably where a pin mechanism was once attached. However, the object also has a central rivet hole. This may have secured the pin mechanism, but could also suggest that the Roman object is in fact a mount from a larger object. The disc is 28.5mm long, 21.4mm wide, 2.1mm thick and 3.75g.
The millefiori is a chequerboard pattern of red and blue squares. The blue squares are made up of 7 by 7 rods. The outer rods are all blue, forming a frame round the inner chequered blue and white rods. The red squares are made of 5 by 5 rods. The outer ones are all red forming a frame round the inner chequered blue and white rods. There are several close parallels on the database. Recorded as an unidentified object, WAW-D50D57 has the same design enamel and a rivet hole like on this example. The record cites similar enamel used on a buckle plate (Cool, H.E.M.,Lloyd-Morgan G., Hooley, A.D. Finds From the Fortress (17/10) The Archaeology of York Y.A.T. Fascicules York) in York, No. 6305. Other plate brooches of similar design are BERK-9EC5C6 and LVPL-F1F6CC. The latter is complete and has the same design of enamel. The record cites a similar example from Alcester published in Bayley and Butcher, (2004), page 130, ill 31 and plate 17. Other similar objects are databased as mounts including WAW-34DA55 which is rectangular and NCL-A38DF3 which cites a similar disc with millefiori decoration in the British Museum (reg no 1891,0327.9), from Chepstow in Monmouthshire and dated to the 2nd-3rd century. Another millefiori disc is in the Oxfordshire Museum: <a href="http://www.artfund.org/supporting-museums/art-weve-helped-buy/artwork/9783/roman-millefiori-disc-roman">http://www.artfund.org/supporting-museums/art-weve-helped-buy/artwork/9783/roman-millefiori-disc-roman</a> |
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| Depicted place | (County of findspot) North Yorkshire | ||
| Date | between 150 and 300 | ||
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FindID: 718470 Old ref: SWYOR-0F6696 Filename: PAS_2475_milleflorie.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/514736 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/514736/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/718470 |
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