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BROOCH
Unique ID: BH-617A21
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A copper-alloy small-long brooch of Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date.
The brooch has a square head-plate, the upper surface of which is decorated with a border of punched ring marks. The short, arched bow springs from the centre of the head plate's bottom side; it is of triangular section, with squared corner mouldings at both ends. At the base this moulding continues downwards, forming a right angle. The foot comprises a truncated lozenge-shaped plate with a border of punched rings, as on the head-plate. A right-angled, perforated lug, situated centrally, at the base of the head's underside, represents the attachment for the now-missing pin. The catchplate is located behind the top of the foot and consists of a smaller right-angled lug, its rolled upper edge missing. The artefact measures 62.6mm long, up to 18.5mm wide (head-plate) and weighs 14.74g.
Similar small-long brooches are illustrated in the Ashmolean Museum's A summary of the Anglo-Saxon Collections (MacGregor and Bolick 1993: 126-127), the closest parallels being nos. 15.7 (from Brighthampton, Oxon.), 15.8 (Haslingfield, Cambs.) and 15.9 (Fairford, Glos.). According the authors, such brooches first appear in the early fifth century, continuing well into the sixth (ibid. 125).
Class: Small-long
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 410
Date to: Circa AD 600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 62.6 mm
Width: 18.5 mm
Weight: 14.74 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 22nd January 2012
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Ver 12/12 - 6
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: South Oxfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Britwell Salome (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU6793
Four figure Latitude: 51.631831
Four figure longitude: -1.033379
1:25K map: SU6793
1:10K map: SU69SE
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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