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BROOCH
Unique ID: WILT-08FA25
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
A copper alloy Roman disc brooch, flat, with ten peripheral lugs or knops, slightly irregular in size, the largest projecting 4.20mm. The pin is missing, but the hinge plate and catch plate appear to be complete.
It is 22.72mm in diameter including the peripheral lugs, the main body is 16.45mm in diameter. It is 3mm thick. It weighs 4.03g.The main body of the brooch is surrounded by a slightly raised margin from which the lugs project. Within this are a circle of ten pellets around a larger, central pellet.
The reverse is plain with some iron corrosion on the flat area near the hinge plate. The whole has a greenish patina.
cf Hattatt 2007 p345 fig 204 no 1047.
Class: Flat, enamelled disc (lugged)
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
Weight: 4.03 g
Diameter: 22.72 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 4496
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Teffont (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST9832
Four figure Latitude: 51.08731112
Four figure longitude: -2.02993243
1:25K map: ST9832
1:10K map: ST93SE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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