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BROOCH
Unique ID: BH-BEC9DF
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
An incomplete copper-alloy Polden Hill brooch with folded wing ends type.
One of the wings remains intact, with only a small portion of the other surviving. The underside of the cylindrical wing has a false spring, the individual coils of which have been defined either by casting or the addition of grooves. A pair of vertical grooves decorates the upper surface of this intact wing. Part of the axis bar is contained within the cylinder, and the now-missing pin would have been hinged via the central slot. The arched bow, broken at the base, is of D-shaped section, with a pair of longitudinal ridges at the centre of its upper surface.
Length: 19.6mm; width: 31mm. Weight: 7.15g.
Find of note status
This has been noted as an interesting find by the recorder.
Class: Polden Hill (folded wing ends type)
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 75
Date to: Circa AD 175
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.6 mm
Width: 31 mm
Weight: 7.15 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st November 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Ver 14/166a - 1
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: East Northamptonshire (District)
To be known as: Brigstock
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
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