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BROOCH
Unique ID: BERK-CB3539
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch, a variant of the Hod Hill type and possibly Continental in origin. The brooch has a fantailed foot containing three triangular cells of a yellow-colured enamel. The main bow of the brooch is also fanned, with the narrow head at the head. Again this is decorated with alternating triangular cells, every-other cells containing degraded enamel. The head of the brooch may have had a loop (like a trumpet brooch derivitive) however it is uncertain. The wings fully encase a thick copper wire, showing the the pin was hinged and not sprung. The pin is now missing. The catchplate is retained on the reverse of the brooch on the lower fantail. The whole brooch has been silvered and some of this survives in places across the face of the brooch. No direct comparisons could be found int he usual litereature. It shares simialrities with both the Hod Hill and Trumpet brooches, and is likely to date from c. AD 50-150.
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Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Circa AD 150
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 40 mm
Width: 20.2 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 11.5 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 2014.024
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Geometric
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: West Oxfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Cassington (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP4512
Four figure Latitude: 51.80483693
Four figure longitude: -1.34875979
1:25K map: SP4512
1:10K map: SP41SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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