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BROOCH
Unique ID: NMGW-65B987
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A middle early-medieval copper-alloy brooch of 8th- to early 9th-century date.
The brooch is fragmentary, represented by the distorted upper bow and part of the spring only (with a surviving distorted length of 30.3mm, a surviving depth of 14.9mm and a weight of 2.5g). The circular-sectioned spring is integral to the bow and has one and a half surviving coils before the break (with a surviving width of 5.0mm and a diameter of 1.8mm). It is now unclear whether the missing chord was external or internal. The bow is of sheet copper alloy (1.0mm thick) with one surviving side, which is straight and divergent to the break (giving a maximum surviving width of 17.5mm). The front of the bow was decorated with repeated punched ring-and-dot. It is now unclear how the ring-and-dot motifs were arranged on the bow. No other applied decoration is evident on the bow. The rear of the bow is undecorated and flat. Working striations are discernible at the apex of the rear of the bow. The surface is heavily-corroded with a mid-brown patina partially surviving; elsewhere the surface has corroded bright green and red-brown.
An example illustrated by Weetch (2014, 186; no. 974) from Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire, has a bow of comparable proportions and decoration.
Class:
strip (Weetch Type 31)
Sub class: lozengiform strip (Weetch Type 31.C)
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 700
Date to: Circa AD 825
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.3 mm
Weight: 2.5 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NMWPA 2014.15
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Decoration style: Other
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Gloucestershire (County)
District: Forest of Dean (District)
Parish or ward: Westbury-on-Severn (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO7013
Four figure Latitude: 51.81481832
Four figure longitude: -2.43659412
1:25K map: SO7013
1:10K map: SO71SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weetch, R. | 2014 | Brooches in Late Anglo-Saxon England within a North West European context: A study of social identities between the eighth and eleventh centuries | Reading | Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Reading | 186 | 974 |
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