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BROOCH
Unique ID: CORN-268076
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman hinged dolphin-type brooch, missing one wing and the hinge and pin, as well as the foot and catchplate. There is a small fragment of the copper alloy spindle visible within the tubular wing. Some of the surface of the wing remains on the outside and retains two sets of parallel transverse incised lines. The head of the brooch has a central raised moulded square which extends vertically down the bow into a lozenge-shape which tapers into a neck and then expands into a rounded terminal. The terminal appears zoomorphic because a chip has been broken off which looks like an eye socket, but there is nothing to match it on the other side. Below the moulded ridge, the bow tapers to a broken edge and the back of the bow is hollow.
Hattatt (2000) illustrates a similar example of a hinged Dolphin-type brooch on page 299, Fig.158, No.361, which is dated to the 1st century AD.
Bayley and Butcher (2004) illustrate a similar Dolphin-type brooch on page 90, Fig.70, No.207, which is unstratified but could only date up to c.AD 200, and a Polden Hill type brooch with a similar 'zoomorphic pellet' on the bow, on page 91, Fig.72, No.213, which dates from c.AD 80-120.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 70
Date to: Circa AD 120
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 22 mm
Width: 30.4 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight: 8.77 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st November 2010 - Tuesday 30th November 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Tregoney (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SW9144
Four figure Latitude: 50.258918
Four figure longitude: -4.933536
1:25K map: SW9144
1:10K map: SW94NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bayley, J. and Butcher, S. | 2004 | Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection | London | The Society of Antiquaries | 90-1, Figs.70 & 72, | Nos.207 & 213 | |
| Hattatt, R. | 2000 | A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches | Oxford | Oxbow Books | 299, Fig.158, | No.361 |
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