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BROOCH

Unique ID: NCL-401351

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

A copper-alloy Thealby type bow brooch (Mackreth's Colchester Derivative Type 17.a) dating to the late first or second century AD. The bow is arched and rectangular in section. It tapers slightly towards the foot which is missing. The wings are rectangular with a vertical marginal rib on the edge of each. There is rectangular horizontally grooved head extension with integrally cast chain loop.The axis bar is enclosed within a damaged cylindrical closed plate. The catchplate rises to more than three quarters the length of the bow. The brooch measures 57mm in length, the width of the wings is 16mm. The bow is 8mm at its widest. For a discussion of the type, see Mackreth 2011, 98-99 which notes that the type is 'remarkably military' in its distribution.

Notes:

SF 4431. Seen 23.4.18

Class: Thealby

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: AD 75
Date to: AD 150

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 57 mm
Width: 16 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st January 1986 - Tuesday 1st January 2002

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: Box 1, Bag 3

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: North East (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
District: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Piercebridge (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: NZ2115
Four figure Latitude: 54.529849
Four figure longitude: -1.677018
1:25K map: NZ2115
1:10K map: NZ21NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Other chance find
Discovery circumstances: While diving in the River Tees
General landuse: Open fresh water
Specific landuse: Running water

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Hattatt, R.	1989	Ancient Brooches and Other Artefacts: A fourth selection of brooches together with some other antiquities from the author	Oxford	Oxbow Books	82_Fig 40	1527

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Recording Institution: NCL
Created: 18 years ago
Updated: 4 years ago

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