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BROOCH
Unique ID: SUSS-B5D303
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A nearly complete cast copper-alloy Late Iron Age or early Roman period one-piece brooch of 'Nauheim derivative' La Tene III type dating from c. AD 25-100. The brooch has a head with an internal chord which passes underneath the bilateral four-coil spring, one of which forms the pin, which seems to be complete. The brooch body is triangular in plan and flat in section, and has a slightly arched profile similar to many brooches of this type. The body tapers into a narrow undecorated foot. It retains a fragment of its perforated sub-triangular catchplate, which is common to the 'Neuheim derivative' type. The brooch does not seem to be decorated. It measures 50.1 mm long, 11.9 mm wide (at spring), 1.8 mm maximum thickness of body; it weighs 3.97 grams. The brooch has an even dark green colour, with some of the outer surface of the lower brooch body and pin abraded away.
Nauheim derivative brooches are common in Britain during the Roman period and were probably manufactured in Britain as well as the Continent. Cf. Bayley and Butcher 2004, Fig. 37. For another similar PAS database example cf. SUSS-A6BD93.
Class: La Tene III, 'Nauheim Derivative'
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 25
Date to: Circa AD 100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 50.1 mm
Width: 11.9 mm
Thickness: 1.8 mm
Weight: 3.97 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 11th November 2013
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Wealden (District)
Parish or ward: Willingdon and Jevington (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ5502
Four figure Latitude: 50.79684138
Four figure longitude: 0.19801969
1:25K map: TQ5502
1:10K map: TQ50SE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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