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BROOCH
Unique ID: NMS-18FC83
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Slightly distorted Roman copper alloy Hod Hill Bagendon type brooch, pin and half of the forward-rolled top of the head missing. There are three knobs on each side of the bow and a vertical row of pellets between two fine ribs on either side of a central groove. These end at a double transerve moulding. Length 45mm. Head width 12mm.
Hattatt 1989, 323, fig. 182. Mackreth 2011 Hod Hill Type 12.a3 (ibid. 142-143, plate 97). Mid to late 1st century. Finder's number A5.
Class:
Bagendon
Sub class: Mackreth HOD HILL 12.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 100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 45 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 30th April 2012 - Monday 30th April 2012
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 9759
Other reference: MT102012
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: South Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Caistor St. Edmund (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TG2203
Four figure Latitude: 52.579466
Four figure longitude: 1.275176
1:25K map: TG2203
1:10K map: TG20SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hattatt, R. | 1989 | Ancient Brooches and Other Artefacts: A fourth selection of brooches together with some other antiquities from the author | Oxford | Oxbow Books | 323 | fig. 182 |
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