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BROOCH

Unique ID: YORYM-699471

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published Find published

Cast copper-alloy hollow backed circular plate brooch with a raised central boss, having had only four projections only two remains. One of these projections is in the form of a suspension loop, another forms the catch-plate. The design of the raised centre is of a four petalled flower with a red centre circle on a blue ground. There is the remains of the catch-plate and fixing for the pin, but the pin is missing.

This is likely to be the brooch illustrated on p. 55 of The Searcher magazine for May 2000

Class: umbonate

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 250

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 31 mm
Width: 22.5 mm
Thickness: 8.5 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 2000

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Materials and construction

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

Spatial metadata


County or Unitary authority: York (Unitary Authority)
District: York (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Poppleton

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Audit data

Recording Institution: YORYM
Created: 20 years ago
Updated: 8 years ago

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