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BROOCH

Unique ID: HAMP-0D3AF1

Object type certainty: Certain
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A complete 2nd-century Roman copper-alloy plate brooch. The brooch is rectangular in form with very slight abrasions to the corners. The upper surface features a border, within which diagonal lines extend to the corners from a central annulet. The four broadly triangular areas thus created are recessed to take enamel. It appears from surviving traces that the smaller cells adjoining the shorter sides would have been filled with blue enamel while the larger cells were filled with red. It is uncertain as to what, if anything, would have filled the middle of the central circle. The lower surface of the brooch is flat, with two semicircular lugs at one short end and a catchplate at the other (L.: 7.4mm). The lugs are perforated to take the axis bar. The pin survives around the axis bar formed of three coils, the outer two curved round below into the chord, the central coil emerging uppermost as the pin. The pin has been abraded and slightly bent. The brooch has been bent upwards slightly at the pin end. It is corroded to a mid/dark green colour, the red-brown colour of the pin suggesting a different alloy. A similar rectangular plate brooch can be found illustrated in Hattatt (2000, 349; ref. 584), although it has six cells instead of four.

Class: Plate

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 200

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 23.65 mm
Width: 12.4 mm
Thickness: 1.45 mm
Weight: 3.15 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 10th April 2008

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: E2372; 3

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel

Spatial metadata

Region: South East (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Test Valley (District)
Parish or ward: Nether Wallop (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SU2735
Four figure Latitude: 51.113661
Four figure longitude: -1.615664
1:25K map: SU2735
1:10K map: SU23NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Hattatt, R.	2000	A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches	Oxford	Oxbow Books	349	584

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Created: 15 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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