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BROOCH
Unique ID: SOM-869F31
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment from a cast copper-alloy Roman bow brooch of probable 1st century AD date. The fragment consists of the head and beginnings of the upper bow; the rest of the brooch has been lost to old damage. The head is formed of a chunky cylinder seemingly with closed ends. Each end is perforated for the iron axis bar, now corroded. At its centre the head of the pin survives as a vestige within the pin slot. The tips of the wings are decorated with a double ridge. The bow emerges at an immediate forty-five degree angle. Beyond this is a further bend, but not as sharp. With this second bend the upper surface becomes flattened. Either side of this flattened top is a longitudinal ridge. The artefact has a corroded to a variable light/mid-green colour.
The classification of this brooch is not certain, but it may be of the T-shaped type.
Class: T-shaped
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Circa AD 150
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 15.7 mm
Height: 11.9 mm
Width: 24.5 mm
Thickness: 7.8 mm
Weight: 8.52 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt 22466
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Alvediston
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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