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BROOCH
Unique ID: BH-144DD4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
An incomplete cast copper-alloy bow brooch of Hod Hill type dating to the Roman period, c. 43-75 AD. The head is broadly trapezoidal in shape, with a central sub-rectangular cut out for the pin. Below the head, the sub-rectangular body of the brooch flares outwards, decorated with three longitudinal moulded ridges. The edges of the brooch are not preserved. The lower part of the bow are separated from the main body by two moulded transverse ridges. The foot is missing. It measures 32mm long (without accounting for the bent head), 18mm wide at its midpoint and weighs 3.04g.
Class: Hod Hill
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: Circa AD 70
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32 mm
Width: 18 mm
Weight: 3.04 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st November 2016 - Saturday 31st December 2016
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: South Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Mundham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TM3398
Four figure Latitude: 52.53000059
Four figure longitude: 1.43371235
1:25K map: TM3398
1:10K map: TM39NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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