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BOW BROOCH
Unique ID: SF10208
Copper alloy brooch, knee type (Snape type 5.1B). Missing spring, pin, part of spring case, catchplate; very bent. There are slight traces of a white metal coating on the bow and spring case. The end plate on the cylindrical spring case has iron staining in the axis bar hole. The spring case is undecorated and separated from the main bow by a transverse rib. The bow is D-section with a plain rounded front, curving in rapidly and then expnding into the flat ended foot. Original length c.30mm, surviving width 15mm. Although many knee brooches are Continental in origin Snape 1993 suggests that this type with unfacetted bow is best paralleled in Britain; they are more common in the military north thasn the south-east.
Class: knee
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: AD 150
Date to: AD 300
Dimensions and weight
Length: 22 mm
Width: 15 mm
Weight: 5.81 g
Quantity: 1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Incomplete [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Spatial data
Region: East
County: Suffolk
District: Waveney
To be known as: ST MARGARET SOUTH ELMHAM
Method of discovery: Metal detector
[scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]
Specific landuse: Character undetermined [scope notes]
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st July 2002
Personal details
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Recorded by: Judith Plouviez
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Identified by: Judith Plouviez - [view all attributed records]
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Created:
Friday 10th January 2003
Updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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