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PLATE BROOCH

Unique ID: SF810

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published Find published

Copper alloy chatelaine type brooch fragment. Missing pin (which was hinged), catchplate, attachment bar and lugs, very damaged margins. Central knob on conical element with 6-petal motif - slight traces of pale enamel in petals. Basal line has blue/yellow/blue/blue/yellow/blue ovolo cells, discoloured triangles below. Arc around centre has similar alternation of colours with extra pair of blue and single yellow in centre; triangles again discoloured. All outer lugs lost. Surv height 30mm, surv width 28mm. As Hattatt nos. 603, 1081 and also Pakenham, PKM 005 no 3936 (but this lacks centre knob.)

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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: 30 mm
Width: 28 mm
Thickness: 8 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 1999

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

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

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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 fig210 nos 603,1081

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Audit data

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

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