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BROOCH
Unique ID: DOR-CC21AA
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
A fragment of a copper alloy brooch. The head and partial bow of a Hod Hill brooch. One folded wing is complete, the other is broken and the axis bar the housed is missing. There is a notch between the wings. The head of the bow is decorated with transverse ridges and tapers to the top of the bow. The bow is expanded from the head and decorated with transverse ridges two narrow flanking a wider one). The remnant of the leg of the bow tapers to the break and is decorated with longitudinal ridges.
Date: Roman - c. AD 43 - 75
Dimensions: 36.34 mm x 18.38 mm x 3.86 mm
Weight: 7.04 g
Class: Hod Hill
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Exactly AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 75
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 36.64 mm
Width: 18.38 mm
Thickness: 3.86 mm
Weight: 7.04 g
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Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: North Dorset (District)
To be known as: Spetisbury
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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