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BROOCH
Unique ID: WILT-4C1E08
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of a cast copper alloy Roman brooch. The remains consist of the lower part of the bow, and all of the sub triangular cathplate and pin curl which ends in a very small foot, essentially a point. It is likely to have been a T shape brooch, c AD50 - 150, or possibly a Colchester derivative of similar date, with a tapered sub circular section bow (diameter of c 2.95mm in section at the top of the catchplate). The brooch has broken, at an early date, at the point where the bow extends into the catchplate..
The item is 28.88mm in length, 8.75mm in width (across the catchplate) and weighs 1.77g The pin curl (and the catchplate at that point) is 12.09mm in length.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Circa AD 150
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 28.88 mm
Width: 8.75 mm
Weight: 1.77 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 5066
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: West Tisbury (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST9128
Four figure Latitude: 51.05127417
Four figure longitude: -2.1297745
1:25K map: ST9128
1:10K map: ST92NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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