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BROOCH
Unique ID: PUBLIC-AE4324
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete, cast copper-alloy Roman brooch of T-shaped type, dating to c. first to second centuries AD. The remains of the brooch consist of most of the upper half, including a cylindrical crossbar with possible iron axial pin still intact; the pin itself has broken off. A portion of the head loop remains, which is the rectangular shaped base to the circular loop. The upper half of the body remains, having broken off at some moulded decoration approximately halfway down the tapering brooch body. The remaining upper portion is sub-rectangular in plan and was originally flat with little curvature to the brooch in profile. The brooch is now bent in multiple places, probably from in situ damage. The outer face of the brooch body has two recessed sub-rectangular cells running the vertical length of the body, terminating in unclear raised moulded decoration. The pin, head loop, catchplate and lower half of the brooch body are missing due to old breaks. Only vague traces of enamelling are visible in the recessed cells; no further decoration survives. The reverse is undecorated and the brooch is of a medium green colour with some areas of darker patina on the reverse. It measures 29.14 mm long, 19.03 mm wide, 2.11 mm thick and weighs 4.1 grams.
Cf. Hattatt 2007, p. 303, nos. 911-913 and for a simpler version, cf. Ibid., p. 304, nos. 1522, 400, 401.
Class: T-shaped
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 199
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 29.14 mm
Width: 19.03 mm
Thickness: 2.11 mm
Weight: 4.1 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 11th December 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: PastfindersI
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Lewes (District)
To be known as: Near Lewes
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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