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BROOCH
Unique ID: WILT-3DE369
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
A complete cast copper alloy enamelled disc brooch dating to the period c. AD 80 - 250. The brooch is flat (2.32mm thick) and decorated with a six-pointed star around a single copper alloy pellet. The points of the star each terminate in a circular knop. The area inside the star surrounding the inner pellet contains red enamel. The area between the star and the outside edge contains blue enamel.
A complete lug and catchplate are visible on the reverse, the spring is intact and the pin projects out from the disc brooch at a 180 degree angle, terminating in an old break.
Cf. Hattatt 2007 p.344, fig.203, nos.118, 518, 1409. In Roman Brooch Timeline Worrell dates flat enamelled disc brooches to AD 80-250.
Class: Flat, enamelled disc (sexfoil)
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 80
Date to: Circa AD 250
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 2.32 mm
Weight: 5.21 g
Diameter: 22.09 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 4845
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Test Valley (District)
To be known as: Broughton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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