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LOT 0672
Romano-British Composite Lunar Type Plate Brooch
2ND CENTURY A.D.
1 7/8 in. (10.3 grams, 47 mm).
An openwork plate brooch with two lobed discs connected by a pair of crescents, traces of red enamel; remains of catchplate and pin-lugs on the reverse. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound East Anglia, UK.
From a Kent collection formed in the 1990s.
Cf. Hattatt, vol 4, p.355, no.1421, which has crescent missing.
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LOT 0672
Romano-British Composite Lunar Type Plate Brooch
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