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BROOCH
Unique ID: BERK-E72CC4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper alloy Roman brooch, a Colchester derivative that Mackreth (2001:91) calls the 'East Midlands Enamelled' type (type 9.b). The brooch has wings that full encase the pin bar; these brooches are hinged not sprung.On this example the pin is missing. The bow is curved and tapers both in section and in width towards the foot, which is very narrow and has a bend outwards for the catchplate, most of which survives. Towards the top of the bow are two recessed cells for enamel, but directly into the bow itself; red enamel survives in the lower notch. There is faint ribbed ornament down the sides and the centre of the brooch, but the main decoration is restricted to the two enamelled cells. One example illustrated in Mackreth (2011: Plate 60 no. 2667) is the closest parallel to the example recorded here; they are dated from the late first to mid second century AD.
Class:
Colchester
Sub class: East Midlands Enamelled
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 75
Date to: Circa AD 130
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 29.6 mm
Width: 22.9 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight: 6.5 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 2014.903
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Basingstoke and Deane (District)
Parish or ward: Nutley (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU5942
Four figure Latitude: 51.17420311
Four figure longitude: -1.15741432
1:25K map: SU5942
1:10K map: SU54SE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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