Copper alloy, 20.50 grams; 38.29 mm. Circa 1st century AD. A beautiful lead filled millefiori mount divided into three concentric sections by bronze encircling bands each filled with decorative millefiori canes, the central circle is filled with a chequer board pattern, with each blue square cane containing miniscule white squares and each red square cane containing its own chequer board pattern of white and blue squares. The inner border is filled with a blue base colour set with multiple chequer boards made up from tiny white square’s, the outer border is filled with plain black square panels. Ref: Bonhams auction catalogue, 20th October 2005; lot 294 and T.W Potter Roman Britain (British Museum, London 1983) page 54, fig. 64. Very fine condition with some nibbling to the edge. Found near Prinstead, Hampshire 1985.