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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-BE2307
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
An incomplete copper alloy Late Iron Age to early Roman Colchester brooch. The head has signs of transverse grooving on the outer face. To the rear are two loops, one still containing part of the chord. The rest of the spring and pin are missing. The bow tapers to a point and the remains of a triangular catchplate survive to the reverse.
Several similar examples are illustrated by Bayley and Butcher (2004, p.63, 54ff), who suggest that this type was first manufactured prior to the Roman conquest of Britain, but continued in use into the middle years of the 1st century AD (ibid., 149).
Length: 34.0mm, width: 12.0mm, thickness: 3.0mm, weight: 2.53g
Class: Colchester (one-piece)
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 60
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 34 mm
Width: 12 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight: 2.53 g
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Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: South Cambridgeshire (District)
Parish or ward: Boxworth (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL3460
Four figure Latitude: 52.22191536
Four figure longitude: -0.03975232
1:25K map: TL3460
1:10K map: TL36SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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