Rights Holder: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum
CC License:
Our images can be used under a CC BY attribution licence (unless stated otherwise).
Unique ID: WILT-7E5DC7
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Iron Age/ early Roman (AD 20-80) copper- alloy Colchester one-piece brooch missing a section of the catchplate and part of the spring. The wings are flat and rectangular. No decoration is visible on the bow which tapers towards the tip. Behind the wings is a spring which consists of six coils, part of the tapering pin survives. The catchplate has been bent slightly, it is broadly triangular in plan and has two broadly D shaped perforations adjacent to the foot.
Class: Colchester one piece
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 20
Date to: Circa AD 80
Quantity: 1
Length: 53.85 mm
Width: 13.55 mm
Thickness: 17.55 mm
Weight: 6.61 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st November 2010 - Tuesday 30th November 2010
This information is restricted for your access level.
Other reference: SP 052
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Grid reference source: GPS (From FLO)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
No references cited so far.