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BROOCH
Unique ID: SF2061
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Copper alloy knee brooch fragment. Upper half only, missing pin. Spring held in semi-cylindrical case with pierced discs at the ends holding axis bar. A small cast headloop on the top. The bow is D-section, tapering, perhaps unusually thick at the top. Width 17mm, surviving length 19mm. Hattatt shows enamelled examples of this form (p.335, nos. 1223 etc.) and suggests a British origin. Plain examples from CDD017 etc.
Notes:
The image accompanying this record was lost in the data transfer of 2003. A drawing of an incomplete brooch from Hacheston was found among Suffolk County Council's records and seems likely (although not certain) to be of SF2061, so it was added to this record.
Class: knee
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: AD 150
Date to: AD 300
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 19 mm
Width: 17 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st March 2000
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: No 68
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: SUFFOLK HACHESTON
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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 | p.335 no1225 etc |
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