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BROOCH

Unique ID: KENT45

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published Find published

Incomplete cast copper alloy Colchester brooch, with the head, partial spring and partial bow surviving. The spring would have originally had eight turns, but only four survive. The axis bar runs through a single projection on the reverse of the headplate. The bow is plain and undecorated, tapering in thickness towards the break. The fragment is approximately 19mm long, 27mm wide and 13mm thick.

Notes:

No photograph of this images is available, however a sketch is available on the paper record held at Kent County Council. Due to the quality of the image it has not been added to this database record. The description has been improved based upon the sketch and further details provided on the paper record. However not all details are known. The measurements have been extrapolated from the 1:1 scale sketch, and cannot be taken as exact or accurate values. This record was originally created before the Portable Antiquities Scheme began using the Central Database, and as such it may fall below our usual standards of recording.

Class: Colchester

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 25
Date to: Circa AD 60

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 19 mm
Width: 27 mm
Thickness: 13 mm

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment

Spatial metadata

Region: South East (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Swale (District)
To be known as: KENT BAPCHILD

Spatial coordinates


Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
Discovery circumstances: fnd. in same set of fields as a large no. of late Roman coins
General landuse: Other
Specific landuse: Unknown

References cited

Author Publication Year Title Publication Place Publisher Pages Reference
Crummy, N. 1983 Colchester Archaeological Report 2: The Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester, 1971-9 Colchester Colchester Archaeological Trust Ltd p. 11-12, no. 40 similar to

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Audit data

Recording Institution: KENT
Created: 25 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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