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BROOCH
Unique ID: SWYOR-126C45
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy Roman brooch; a rectangular plate brooch which is decorated by being silvered on the front. Th edges of the plate are damaged, but it appears to be complete. The front is silvered and scratched, but there does not appear to be any further decoration. On the reverse is a central projecting ridge. It is concave in the centre and extends at one end to for the catchplate (the turnover is missing, and is broken across a circular perforation at the other end. This is where the pin would have attached. The breaks are very worn and well patinated. The bare metal is a dark green colour.
Class: plate
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 300
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 29.18 mm
Width: 16.16 mm
Thickness: 9.08 mm
Weight: 6.89 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st February 2012 - Tuesday 28th February 2012
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: PAS form number 1819
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
District: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Calbourne (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SZ4387
Four figure Latitude: 50.681076
Four figure longitude: -1.392741
1:25K map: SZ4387
1:10K map: SZ47SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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