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BROOCH
Unique ID: NMS-4BB340
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Fragments of two Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Harlow brooches, the D-sectioned lower parts of the bow, both catchplates with a pin groove and a triangular aperture. Mackreth 2011 CD Ha. One, extant length 36.3mm, width at break 3.2mm, is decorated with a median groove which dies out above the upper end of the catchplate. The other: length 30, width at break 2.8mm. c.43 - c.75.
Class: Colchester Derivative Harlow
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Exactly AD 75
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 2
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 19th September 2015 - Monday 14th December 2015
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 29715
Other reference: SB022016
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Gayton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF7318
Four figure Latitude: 52.73196272
Four figure longitude: 0.56071756
1:25K map: TF7318
1:10K map: TF71NW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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