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BROOCH
Unique ID: WAW-97557C
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Roman brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill. The copper alloy brooch has a semi-cylindrical wings which are undecorated. The axis bar has the spring coiled around it eleven times and the pin is missing. At the centre of the upper edge of the wings there is an integral perforated lug. The bowhead is shallow in profile and is slightly hump-like. The bow is decorated with a low-relief crescents, but the overall motif is unclear due to corrosion. The bow is semi-circular and is broken above the approximate midpoint.
The surface of the brooch has a light green patina which is abraded and incomplete.
It measures 18.57mm in length, 23.81mm in width, and weighs 5.84g.
The brooch is a Polden Hill type, Bayley and Butcher (2004:160) comment that the distribution of Polden Hill brooches are concentrated in the West Midlands and suggest they date to AD 80 to 120. It is not in good enough condition to give it a Mackreth classification.
Bayley, J. and Butcher, S., 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection London: Society of Antiquaries
Mackreth, D. F. 2011 Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain Volume 1 Oxford: Oxbow Books
Class:
Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011)
Sub class: Mackreth Type not known
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 70
Date to: Circa AD 175
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 18.57 mm
Width: 23.81 mm
Weight: 5.84 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 26th March 2018 - Monday 26th March 2018
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Finders Ref.: 652
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Warwickshire (County)
District: Stratford-on-Avon (District)
Parish or ward: Morton Bagot (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP1163
Four figure Latitude: 52.26505355
Four figure longitude: -1.84023963
1:25K map: SP1163
1:10K map: SP16SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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