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BROOCH

Unique ID: SOMDOR460

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published Find published

Copper alloy brooch. T-shaped brooch. Short flat, sub-rectangular wings, open at the back, housing a tightly wound sprung pin mechanism around a copper alloy axis bar. The wings are decorated with four longitudinal incised lines on each end. At the head there is the stub of a chain loop. Tapering bow (bent in antiquity) with a tapering rectilinear recess for enamel. At the foot a convex knob.

Notes:

PAL 264

Class: Bow
Sub class: T-shaped

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Circa AD 150

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 25 mm
Width: 18 mm

Discovery dates

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

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Materials and construction

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

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: South Somerset (District)
To be known as: SOMERSET ILCHESTER

Spatial coordinates


Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Operations to a depth less than 0.25 m

References cited

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Audit data

Recording Institution: SOMDOR
Created: 23 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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