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BROOCH
Unique ID: SF9904
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Copper alloy flat enamelled disc brooch. Missing pin, damaged headloop and catchplate. Pin hinged on two close set lugs. A central 3.5mm diam recess could have held enamel or some other setting; two narrow concentric grooves are also empty but an outer 3mm wide band contains enamel, alternately plain ?white (now cream coloured) and pairs of black lines on ?white. The brooch shape is not unusual (Hattatt nos 1038-1039 have the single headloop projection) but the use of millefiori type dark lines is not so easy to parallel.
Class: Enamelled disc
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 250
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 26 mm
Weight: 4.86 g
Diameter: 23.3 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st October 2002
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Forest Heath (District)
To be known as: SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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 | 344 |
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