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BROOCH
Unique ID: WILT-C3C494
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete Late Iron Age/ early Roman (AD 20-80) copper- alloy Colchester one-piece brooch missing the majority of the catchplate, the spring and pin.
The wings are flat and rectangular, one wing in incomplete. No decoration is visible on the bow which tapers towards the tip. Behind the wings is a fragment of the coil of the spring and a forward facing hook.
The majority of the catchplate is missing, a fragment survives.
The brooch is 45.8mm in length, 9.1mm wide, 13.55mm thick and weighs 4.48 grams.
Class: Colchester one piece
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 20
Date to: Circa AD 80
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 45.8 mm
Width: 9.1 mm
Thickness: 13.55 mm
Weight: 4.48 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 6th October 2012
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 3978
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Salisbury
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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