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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-B4BE41
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Roman copper-alloy zoomorphic plate brooch in the form of a bird, possibly a dove?. The brooch is essentially T-shaped with a slightly raised triangular shaped body which sits above a flat plate, containing the backwards pointing wings and the sub triangular tail at the end of a thin body. The projecting neck is conical with a rounded head which is flat in profile and has a circular eye pierced through. The surface of the wings have been enamelled with an ovate shaped enamel cell which has a main body of red. The lower wing (as per photo) has three circular enamel cells, the outer two are picked out in pale blue, the third cell is now empty. The upper wind is damaged so this can't be seen The tail has also been enamelled with two trianglular cells which have the remains of a pellet in each. Between the raised body and the wing cells are a series of crescent shaped depressions running the length of the body.
There are the remnants of a double looped? catchplate underneath the tail and remains of a catchplate sitting beneath the birds neck.
Length 30mm, width 17mm, thickness 17mm, weight 5.75grams.
Class: zoomorphic (bird)
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 200
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30 mm
Width: 17 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight: 5.75 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Stockton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST9736
Four figure Latitude: 51.12327485
Four figure longitude: -2.04424454
1:25K map: ST9736
1:10K map: ST93NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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