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BROOCH
Unique ID: SF-EA8026
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete and worn copper-alloy Roman Langton Down bow brooch. Only the wings and the bow survive, the remainder of the object is missing due to old breaks, now worn.
The wings are folded over to be cylindrical in form and undecorated. The juncture of the bow is rectangular. The bow is flat and rectangular. It is undecorated and tapers towards the foot. On the back face of the foot are the remains of an integrally cast catchplate.
This brooch measures 18.35mm in length, 17.80mm in width at the wings, 10.78mm in width at the bow, 3.12mm in thickness, 3.07g in weight.
There is a similar example from Camulodunum (Hawkes and Hull, 1947, plate XCIV, no. 97).
Class: Langton Down
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 25
Date to: Circa AD 65
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st November 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: St. Edmundsbury (District)
To be known as: Thelnetham
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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