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BROOCH
Unique ID: NMGW-39E02F
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Roman copper alloy brooch of uncertain type, possibly an emailed T-shaped, or allied type and of 1st or 2nd century AD date.
The brooch is fragmentary, missing the head and upper bow (with a surviving length of 33.5mm, a surviving depth of 16.4mm and a weight of 3.2g). The mid bow has broken across a decorative square panel (7.6mm wide and 1.9mm thick), which probably had an enamel motif, possibly a saltire cross. Beneath the panel are horizontal ribs. The leg is of D-shaped section with straight sides converging to the forward-projecting foot. The leg was decorated with a central column of horizontal grooves. The catch-plate is positioned to one side of the rear of the leg. The surface has a pale-green patina.
The fragmentary nature of the brooch makes typological identification difficult but the form of the mid-bow, leg and positioning of the catch-plate may suggest an enamelled T-shaped, or allied type of later 1st or 2nd century AD date.
Class: uncertain type but possibly Developed T-shaped
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 33.5 mm
Width: 7.6 mm
Thickness: 1.9 mm
Weight: 3.2 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NMWPA 2013.76.2
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Wales (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Newport (Unitary Authority)
District: Newport (Unitary Authority)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST4290
Four figure Latitude: 51.60583439
Four figure longitude: -2.83890088
1:25K map: ST4290
1:10K map: ST49SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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