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Unique ID: HAMP-A4F521
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete and corroded 1st century AD, cast copper-alloy Roman cruciform plate brooch. The brooch is broadly lozengeform in plan, with four opposing protrousions located at each tip. One of these protrousions conceals the double semicircular lug in which the pin would have sat; only the head of the pin survives now corroded in place. Opposite, on the longest axis, a protrousion conceals a corroded incomplete catch-plate. The projection expands slightly before the tip. There are two other projections, set at a ninety degree angle from the pin and catch-plate, both appear to be incomplete due to old breaks. In the centre of the brooch is a circular perforation filled with iron corrosion product which is visible around the perforation on both the front and reverse faces. The brooch appears to be undecorated and is corroded in places. It has a light green and brown patina.
Class:
Cruciform, early Continental
Sub class: Hull T225; Bayley and Butcher 2004, 122 fig. 94; Mackreth 2011, chapter 7, part 2,PL CONT Type 2.b.1; Riha 1979, type 7.4.1
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 63
Date to: Circa AD 100
Quantity: 1
Length: 28.45 mm
Width: 17.05 mm
Thickness: 3.85 mm
Weight: 1.35 g
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 15th October 2010
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Other reference: E3094
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SU6434
Four figure Latitude: 51.101739
Four figure longitude: -1.08732
1:25K map: SU6434
1:10K map: SU63SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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