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BROOCH
Unique ID: GLO-6559BA
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Copper alloy brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill type (Mackreth 2011, Part 5, Group 2.a2, sprung pin, enamelled panel on upper bow made up of three squares, pair of lobes under it, flat wing ends type).
Rearward facing lugs on either end of the wings that would have held the pin axis bar. There is a loop at the top of the head for the external cord of the spring. the head of the bow is an angled flat plate that has a line of three recessed squares running down its length. Below the head plate are a pair of lobes beneath it before the lower part of the bow narrows to an oval cross-section leg, however this it truncated near the top resulting in the loss of the catch plate. Date 80-160AD.
Class:
Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011, Part 5, Group 2.a2, sprung pin, enamelled panel on upper bow made up of three squares, pair of lobes under it, flat wing ends type)
Sub class: Mackreth 2011, Part 5, Group 2.a2, Plate 68.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 80
Date to: Circa AD 160
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25 mm
Width: 19 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight: 2.74 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st July 2001 - Sunday 1st July 2012
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Gloucestershire (County)
District: Stroud (District)
To be known as: cotswolds
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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