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BROOCH
Unique ID: WAW-AD5B04
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The wings were originally tubular, but the outer face is abraded. Both terminals of the wings are abraded, but one may have a trace of an original edge suggesting it did not have wing caps. The pin, axis bar and spring is missing. The bow head is slightly hump-like in profile with a rounded triangular section before tapering towards the bow which is has a slender elongated oval section. Only a small portion of the bow remains before it is broken. The break is not recent. The bow head and bow is undecorated. The brooch has an abraded surface with traces of a blue/green patina. It measures 17.44mm long, 20.24mm wide and weighs 2.6g.
The brooch is a Colchester-derivative, but the type cannot be classified further with certainty. The brooch probably dates to the late first to second centuries.
Class: Colchester derivative
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 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 17.44 mm
Width: 20.24 mm
Weight: 2.6 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 22nd February 2010 - Thursday 6th May 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Warwickshire (County)
District: Stratford-on-Avon (District)
Parish or ward: Tanworth-in-Arden (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP1369
Four figure Latitude: 52.318952
Four figure longitude: -1.810705
1:25K map: SP1369
1:10K map: SP16NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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