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BROOCH

Unique ID: FAPJW-EAF007

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

An incomplete copper-alloy penannular brooch (Fowler Type A3 - plain bosses with mouldings) dating to the Roman period. The incomplete ring is plain and circular in section. It extends to a single mushroom-shaped terminal with a narrower collar below. The pin is missing. The brooch has a diameter of 31mm and the ring, a thickness of 3mm. The terminal measures 6mm by 3mm. The brooch weighs 3.8g. Fowler Type A3 pennanular brooches have 'knob terminals with additional mouldings'. Mackreth 2011, 213 comments that this is a type that spans the first to third century AD, but does not run into the fourth century AD.

Notes:

SF 485. Seen 23.4.18

Class: Penannular
Sub class: Fowler Type A3

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
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight: 3.8 g
Diameter: 31 mm

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: Box 1, Bag 1

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: North East (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
District: Darlington (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Piercebridge (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: NZ2115
Four figure Latitude: 54.529849
Four figure longitude: -1.677018
1:25K map: NZ2115
1:10K map: NZ21NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Other chance find
Discovery circumstances: While diving in the River Tees

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Recording Institution: FAPJW
Created: 11 years ago
Updated: 4 years ago

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