Rights Holder: Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service
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Unique ID: ESS-E4F9D7
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published
Roman cast copper alloy wide cuff bracelet terminal. It is rectangular in plan with a slightly curved profile. There is a worn break at one end. The terminal is decorated with two rows of punched circles across the width of the bracelet. There main body of the brooch is symmetrical along its length; There is a narrow groove running parallel to the edges next to a wider, shallower groove. There are two central raised bands of decoration with depressed, oblique lines along their length. The fragment is 26.26mm long, 20.66mm wide, 1.15mm thick and weighs 4.03 grams.
Class: Wide cuff (early)
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 200
Quantity: 1
Length: 26.26 mm
Width: 20.66 mm
Thickness: 1.15 mm
Weight: 4.03 g
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 12th March 2006
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Other reference: NS 34
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
4 Figure: TL0334
Four figure Latitude: 51.994905
Four figure longitude: -0.501231
1:25K map: TL0334
1:10K map: TL03SW
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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