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BROOCH
Unique ID: NCL-7BB464
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
A Roman copper-alloy Knee brooch dating to the late second or early third century AD. The head is a flat, semi-circular, undecorated plate. On the reverse, there are two semi-circular perforated lugs holding an axis bar and fragment of the sprung pin. The pin is missing. The bow is arched, hollow and approximately rectangular in section; it expands to a flat, triangular foot which is marginally grooved. The catchplate extends the full length of the foot and is trapezoidal in shape. The brooch measures 43mm in length; the head has a width of 20mm and the foot has a width of 14mm. The brooch weighs 7.6g. Bayley and Butcher classify this as a Type 171 and note that it is more common in Britain and rare or missing on continental sites. It occurs on military sites including South Shields, but also on southern civilian sites. The only dated examples come from a drain at the the legionary fortress of Caerleon dating to AD 160-230 and from the Jewry Wall site at Leicester dating to about AD 220 (Bayley and Butcher 2004, 179-180).
Notes:
SF 4359. Seen 23.4.18
Class: Knee (Romano-British)
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: AD 150
Date to: AD 230
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 43 mm
Width: 20 mm
Weight: 7.6 g
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 4
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.
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