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BROOCH
Unique ID: WILT-76A495
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast, enamelled and silvered (or tinned) disc brooch of Roman date (AD 80 - 250), missing some of the enamel decoration and most of the silvering, part of the D-shape lug and the spring and pin. The curl of the catchplate is damaged but still in place, as is part of the edge. The brooch measures 21.12mm in diameter, is 5.41mm in max. depth and weighs 4.2g.
The brooch is flat (2.26mm thick) and circular and decorated with a six-pointed star around a single copper alloy pellet. At each star point is a copper alloy pellet. The area between the star and the outside edge (flanked by a c.1mm wide copper alloy border) carries a blue enamel, mostly of a light shade but varying in its intensity of colour. About a third of the enamel is missing. The area inside the star carries white enamel, again missing about one third.
To the reverse are the remains of the lug (about half, broken across the piercing) with traces of iron staining, and the catchplate opposite.
Cf. Hattatt 2007 p.344, fig.203, nos.118, 518, 1409. In Roman Brooch Timeline (2007), Worrell dates flat enamelled disc brooches to AD 80-250.
Class:
Disc
Sub class: Flat and enamelled
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 80
Date to: Circa AD 250
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 5.41 mm
Weight: 4.2 g
Diameter: 21.12 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st February 2011 - Tuesday 5th April 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 3597
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Multiple
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Pitton and Farley
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hattatt, R. | 2000 | A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches | Oxford | Oxbow Books | p.344 | fig.203, nos.118, 518, 1409 |
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