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PLATE BROOCH
Unique ID: NMGW-06D50C
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Roman copper alloy enamelled plate brooch of 2nd century AD date
The brooch is of lozenge form (with a length of 34.4mm, a width of 29.3mm and a weight of 9.7g) and is incomplete, missing the pin and enamelled decoration. The missing pin was likely to have been hinged but the hinged lug is now damaged and truncated but appears comparatively long (with a surviving length of 5.5mm, giving an overall maximum surviving depth of 7.9mm). There is the suggestion of a groove and hole remnants to accommodate the pin and axis bar. The catch-plate is also truncated (with a surviving height of 4.8mm) and has lost the catch. The rear is not decorated and is flat. The brooch face contains linear ribs defining nine internal lozenge cells that would have held enamel but with no trace now surviving. The base of the cells has irregular facets from their working prior to enamelling. The base of the brooch had a small projecting knop beneath the catch-plate. The surface has a dark-brown patina.
Class: plate brooch of lozenge form
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 34.4 mm
Width: 29.3 mm
Weight: 9.7 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NMWPA 2014.146.1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Decoration style: Other
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with other or unknown
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: Taunton Deane (District)
Parish or ward: Langford Budville (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST0922
Four figure Latitude: 50.9901802
Four figure longitude: -3.2979431
1:25K map: ST0922
1:10K map: ST02SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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