Rights Holder: Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service
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Unique ID: ESS-D2A30C
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy object, probably from a Late Iron Age or Roman one-piece brooch, dating AD 30-70. The object has a squared head and a shank which tapers into a point. The shape of the object has been altered by wear but would have originally had a circular section shank and the head likely had projections either side with a further projection away, that would have acted as the pin. The object is covered with a mid-dark green patina.
Numerous one piece brooches are recorded on the database, for example ESS-FCE52C. Sally Worrell (unpub) dates one peice brooches to AD 30-70.
The pin weighs 2.91g, 52.31mm length, 6.40mm width, 4.97mm thickness (head),
Class: One-piece
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 30
Date to: Circa AD 70
Quantity: 1
Length: 52.31 mm
Width: 6.4 mm
Thickness: 4.97 mm
Weight: 2.91 g
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: TL5112
Four figure Latitude: 51.78628668
Four figure longitude: 0.18779363
1:25K map: TL5112
1:10K map: TL51SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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