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BROOCH
Unique ID: SWYOR-F5A966
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy Roman brooch, a Trumpet derivative type dating from the 1st and 2nd Centuries. The brooch has a small trumpet head with a damaged cylindrical housing for the axis bar behind. The bar is missing but there is a slot for the missing hinged pin. On either side of the bow on the front of the head is a concave depression which may have originally contained enamel. The bow is arched and flattens out slightly in the centre where there is a circular platform with a hole through the centre. It then flares out to form the foot which is triangular like a fan tail brooch. On the foot are three more concave depressions like the ones on the head. There is one centrally at the top and two at the end of the foot, one on each side. The catchplate on the reverse tapers from the foot, ending approximately half way up the body; its edges are slightly worn with some minor damage and the turn over is missing. The brooch has a dark green patina and is worn. It has been coated with a preservative. Compare Hattatt, page 330, figure 189 number 1537 which is a very similar but better preserved brooch.
Length: 14.3mm; Width: 12.9mm; Thickness: 9.3mm; Weight: 9.07g
Class: trumpet derivative
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 14.3 mm
Width: 12.9 mm
Thickness: 9.3 mm
Weight: 9.07 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st May 2010 - Thursday 12th May 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: PAS form number 1513
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Doncaster (Metropolitan District)
District: Doncaster (Metropolitan District)
Parish or ward: Wadworth (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK5598
Four figure Latitude: 53.475864
Four figure longitude: -1.172799
1:25K map: SK5598
1:10K map: SK59NE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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