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BROOCH

Unique ID: SOMDOR753

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Fragment of copper alloy brooch. Wings, head, part of bow and hinged pin only. Flat topped tubular wings housing the copper alloy axis bar and decorated with two grooves around the ends. The copper alloy hinged pin is attached to the axis bar. The head is narrowed from the wings and has the remnants of a chain loop at the top. The head is incised with a saltire cross. Below this is a raised ovoid stud, recessed for enamel, placed longitudinally. The bow tapers from this point and is decorated with a recessed rectangular panel of lozenge chambers for enamel. No enamel surviving.

Notes:

PAL 636

Class: Bow brooch
Sub class: T-shaped

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 200

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 30 mm
Width: 21.29 mm
Thickness: 1.24 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st September 1999 - Tuesday 1st February 2000

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Geometric
Completeness: Fragment

Spatial metadata

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

Spatial coordinates

Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 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

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Hattatt, R.	1985	Iron Age and Roman Brooches	Oxford	Oxbow Books	87-95	as 387 & 405

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

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