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BROOCH
Unique ID: CORN-D866AE
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman disc brooch with a plain edge, oval in plan and flat in profile. The upper face of the brooch is decorated with a central six-pointed star or sexfoil, each point terminates in a circular lobe, within a blue enamelled field. The centre of the sexfoil has a raised circular boss which also has blue enamel inlaid around it. This shape within the disc, of a sexfoil with lobes, in a field of blue enamel also compares well to the Roman plate brooches with projecting knops, so it may have been emulating these more elaborate brooches. The reverse of the brooch retains the double lugs for the spring and pin and part of the spring remains but the pin is broken and missing. Opposite the spring is the catchplate which is missing the securing lip.
Hattatt (2000) illustrates a very similar disc brooches on page 344, fig.203, nos.118, 518 & 1409, which are dated from the 2nd century AD.
See records BERK-9C09B3 and WILT-63996E for similar examples.
Class: Disc
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 22 mm
Height: 11.7 mm
Width: 17 mm
Thickness: 2.7 mm
Weight: 3.29 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 4th December 2016 - Sunday 4th December 2016
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Enamel
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: West Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Loders (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SY4894
Four figure Latitude: 50.74326603
Four figure longitude: -2.73834961
1:25K map: SY4894
1:10K map: SY44SE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hattatt, R. | 2000 | A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches | Oxford | Oxbow Books | 344, fig.203 | nos.118, 518 & 1409 |
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