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BROOCH

Unique ID: SF189

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published Find published

Copper-alloy brooch fragment; Aesica crescent type; central bow with riveted on crescent and top of fantail foot; joins another fragment from the same site; radiating lines on outside face of crescent and incised lines radiating on fantail.

Notes:

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Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: AD 43
Date to: AD 410

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 32 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st October 1998

Personal details

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Fragment

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Mid Suffolk (District)
To be known as: SUFFOLK CODDENHAM

Spatial coordinates


Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Character undetermined

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 no. 289

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Audit data

Recording Institution: SF
Created: 24 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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