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BROOCH
Unique ID: DEV-B12875
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete Late Iron Age or early Roman copper alloy brooch, possibly of Birdlip type, dating to the period c. AD 25 - 55. The pin, part of the bow, the foot and the catchplate are missing. The brooch measures 25.71mm in length, 14.22mm maximum width, 11.11mm minimum width, is 7.94mm thick and weighs 6.12g.
The head exhibits drilled cylindrical wings which house the axis bar for the hinged pin mechanism. The axis bar appears to be copper alloy. The wings are divided by a central pin slot which houses the corroded remains of the iron pin. The remains of the pin are stuck to the underside of the bow and terminate in an old break.
The bow arches back from the head and tapers slightly to an old break. It is decorated with an incised groove running along each long edge with two curved grooves positioned back-to-back in between. The brooch terminates in an old break.
Mackreth (2011, Vol. I, p. 13) discusses similar examples. A comparable example is illustrated in Mackreth, ibid, Vol. II, p. 8, pl. 5, no. 14509). The Birdlip type brooch is a derivative of the continental Flűgelfibel type brooch (Bayley and Butcher; 2004 p. 148).
Class: Birdlip
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 25
Date to: Circa AD 55
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25.71 mm
Width: 14.22 mm
Thickness: 7.94 mm
Weight: 6.12 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Devon (County)
District: South Hams (District)
To be known as: Stoke Gabriel
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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