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BROOCH
Unique ID: WAW-BBC613
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Fragment of a copper alloy brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth Group 5, flat wing ends type, Western Group), Mackreth 2011, 5.b4.Plate 50. The bow and wings survive, the foot and catchplate is missing. Corrosion makes it impossible to determine if the bow was decorated but each of the wings bears two, bold circumferential mouldings. The underside of the wings is hollowed to accomodate the coiled spring and one of the small perforated plates that secured the spring chord is present. There are also traces of the fitting on the end of the bow that secured the spring.
Class:
Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth Group 5, flat wing ends type, Western Group)
Sub class: Mackreth 2011, 5.b4.Plate 50
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Circa AD 150
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.92 mm
Width: 17.13 mm
Thickness: 6.76 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st July 2008
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Warwickshire (County)
District: Stratford-on-Avon (District)
To be known as: Bidford on Avon
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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