Rights Holder: Oxfordshire County Council
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Unique ID: BERK-EB51C4
Object type certainty: Certain
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A cast copper-alloy Roman tutulus brooch dating from the first to third century AD. The brooch is circular in plan with a raised outer rim from which protrude six (incomplete) small lugs spaced at regular intervals around the outer edge. Four of these lugs are purely decorative, but two lugs directly opposite each other are integrally moulded to conceal the pin hinge and the catchplate, both of which are present. The centre of the brooch rises into a cone that is topped by a rounded moulded central boss with inner pellet. The reverse of the brooch is convex beneath the central boss and the pin is missing.
Class: Tutulus
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 250
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 6.22 mm
Weight: 6.2 g
Diameter: 29.65 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 2012 - Saturday 10th March 2012
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Other reference: 2011.785
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SP4101
Four figure Latitude: 51.706247
Four figure longitude: -1.408063
1:25K map: SP4101
1:10K map: SP40SW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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