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BROOCH
Unique ID: SOM-1D8CBB
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Very worn Roman copper alloy plate brooch with central oval glass setting. Most of the outer border of the brooch is worn away but it is likely it was also oval. Th glass setting is matt black with a broadly flat front with has a slight rise twrds the cnetre, tapering side and probably flat back. The plat of the brooch is so worn that, as well as behind the glass setting, only small sections survive top and bottom, too small and worn to interperate the form or decoration of the border.
On the back is a small amount of the original white metal coated surfaceand a suggestion of a vertical catchplate at one end, now worn flat. At the other end is preserved a central, integral semi-circular lug with a central iercing though which runs the iron axis bar. One loop and the internal chord of the sprung copper alloy pin remains on this bar.
The entire piece is now 23.7mm long, 12.0 mm wide, 5.3mm thick excluding the lug and pin, 9.9mm including them and weighs 3.21 grams.
Bayley and Butcher (2004:178) suggest this type of oval brooch with a central coloured glass setting (Hull T271) dates to the third or fourth centuries and probably of British manufacture.
Class: Plate
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 225
Date to: Circa AD 350
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 23.7 mm
Width: 12 mm
Thickness: 9.9 mm
Weight: 3.21 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 7th September 2014 - Sunday 7th September 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt 17042, finders ref JP 16
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Glass
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: White metal coated
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Urchfont (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU0356
Four figure Latitude: 51.30311414
Four figure longitude: -1.95835165
1:25K map: SU0356
1:10K map: SU05NW
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bayley, J. and Butcher, S. | 2004 | Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection | London | The Society of Antiquaries |
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