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BROOCH
Unique ID: HAMP-025E77
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper-alloy Roman plate brooch inlaid with enamel, incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin (c. 2nd century AD). The brooch is in the form of an elongated stylised palm leaf which curves to one side at its tip. From the centre of the wide end a stalk emerges which ends in an expanded terminal (W.: 9.75mm). Within the main field, just above the stalk is an annulet inlaid with red enamel. The main field is inlaid with blue enamel, now cracked and crazed, but surviving well. Both the border and the annulet are decorated with fine punch marks. The lower surface is flat, except for the pin lug and catch-plate, located at either ends of a low longitudinal strip. The pin lug is located at the start of the stalk, slightly to one side. Within a double lug are the corroded remains of the iron axis bar. The catch-plate, towards the tip, has a length of 6.5mm and a width of 1.4mm. It is broadly trapezoidal and the fold has been abraded. This brooch has a mid/dark-green patina with some areas of lighter corrosion product. It has been bent downwards at the tip as a result of old damage. The form is seemingly a rare one, difficult to parallel in the main literature, but as ref. BUC-415350 on this database.
Class: plate
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32.35 mm
Height: 5.9 mm
Width: 16.65 mm
Thickness: 1.85 mm
Weight: 3.54 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 21st January 2012
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: E3266; LOF/228
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Test Valley (District)
Parish or ward: Kings Somborne (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU3931
Four figure Latitude: 51.077005
Four figure longitude: -1.444673
1:25K map: SU3931
1:10K map: SU33SE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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