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Roman dragonesque brooch
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Stuart Noon, 2014-05-20 14:46:42
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Roman dragonesque brooch
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English: Copper alloy with blue, yellow and red enamel Brooch fragment. Cast Dragonesque Brooch with a body of reverse S form. The head has an expanded nostril and broad rounded ears. The body bears a series of three enamelled panels with yellow enamelled ovals surrounded by 8 red enamelled triangles and two alternating red and blue enamelled triangles above and below with further red triangles around the dragon ears with eyes demarcated by round blue panels for the eyes underscored by red enamel.

Dragonesque brooches are an insular type which appear to have been manufactured in the Yorkshire area. Similar on the database to DUR-B44368, DUR-F7E453 and SWYOR-638528. The length is 54mm, the width is 19mm thickness 4mm and the weight 5.89g.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Wiltshire
Date between 50 and 75
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FindID: 617467
Old ref: LANCUM-B5C813
Filename: LANCUM-B5C813.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/469020
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/469020/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/617467
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