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BROOCH
Unique ID: BH-255AD3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
An incomplete copper-alloy Colchester-derivative brooch of double-pierced lug type, dating from the mid to late 1st century AD.
The horizontal wings take the form of a half-cylinder, at the centre of which there is a perforated lug containing the axis bar. Immediately above this lug is a second such lug containing the external chord, which holds in place the nine coils of the spring. The pin is missing. On top of the head, a short gap separates the uppermost lug from a ridge, the latter extending to the point at which the tapering, sub-rectangular-sectioned bow is broken.
Dimensions: 29.5mm long, 26.6mm wide (head), 13.4mm deep. Weight: 11.17g.
Class: Colchester-derivative (double-pierced lug)
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 29.5 mm
Width: 26.6 mm
Weight: 11.17 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 22nd April 2012
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Ver 12/61 - 7
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: South Cambridgeshire (District)
To be known as: Great and Little Chishill
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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