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BROOCH
Unique ID: BERK-B2FE61
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete cast copper alloy Late Iron Age one-piece brooch dating to the first century AD. The brooch is a La Tene III Nauheim derivative type, with long thin bow that tapers to a sharp pont at the foot, the reversse of which forms the long catchplate. The head of the brooch has sharply narrowing shoulders which turn in to the rolled spring of four coils, before straightening out and tapering in to the pin shank. The front of the brooch has a crude attempt at beading, with a single vertical line over-scored by multiple short horizontally alligned score runng down to just over half of the bow's length. Three poorly arranged transverse scores separate the decorated bow with the plain lower section and foot.
Similar examples are illustrated in Hattatt (2007) nos. 736, 738. Mackreth (2012) also illustrates similar with nos. 3960 and 3985. They date from c. AD 20-70.
Class: Nauheim derivative
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 20
Date to: Circa AD 70
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 62.7 mm
Width: 11.4 mm
Thickness: 1.2 mm
Weight: 6.2 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 2016.877
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: Vale of White Horse (District)
Parish or ward: Kingston Bagpuize with Southmoor (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU4096
Four figure Latitude: 51.66136563
Four figure longitude: -1.42310504
1:25K map: SU4096
1:10K map: SU49NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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