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BROOCH

Unique ID: SF79

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published Find published

A Roman copper-alloy brooch fragment; Hod Hill type, incomplete upper bow only, one narrow and one broad cross rib at top, central rib and flutes, bow with openwork triangle each side.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 100

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st May 1999

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy

Spatial metadata

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

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. 56, 854

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Audit data

Recording Institution: SF
Created: 24 years ago
Updated: 11 years ago

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