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Lot 244

1 May 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A Romano-British bronze enamelled disc brooch
Circa 2nd Century A.D.
Composed of two registers separated by bronze rims, the outer circle set with rectangular millefiori inserts alternating a red matrix with a chequerboard pattern of white, red and black tiny squares, and a green matrix with yellow squares, the inner section with five wavy bands of multicoloured enamelled, the boss at the centre adorned with an enamelled green and yellow flower head pattern, with attachment loop at the top and remains of the hinge and catch-plate on the reverse, 36mm high

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Provenance:
Found in Winterbourne St. Martin, Dorset, in May 2012.
Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme as BH-6E73F5.

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