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BROOCH
Unique ID: LANCUM-BF512B
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast copper-alloy plate brooch dating to the Roman period, c. 150-250 AD. It is oval in plan and broadly plano-convex in section, with a flat underside demonstrating a broken looped pin mechanism and catchplate. The upper face has been ornately decorated, demonstrating an outer recessed field with stamped circular motifs inside two linear ropework designs, which serve to enclose the former. This has been gilded, the majority of which survives intact. The inner of these encircles a central oval cell with projecting rim, which originally would have contained a glass insert, though this is now missing. The reverse has been silvered much of which remains. The length is 32mm, the width is 20mm thickness 8mm and the weight 8.25g.
Mackreth publishes a number of similar brooches (Mackreth 2012, vol. II, p. 110, plate 107) see nos. 14749, 10871, and 11620. See also NARC-CBC7E1 and SWYOR-DCD811 on the PAS database.
Class:
Plate
Sub class: Mackreth type British Plate 3.b2.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 150
Date to: Circa AD 250
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32 mm
Width: 20 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight: 8.25 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 7th August 2017 - Monday 7th August 2017
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: North West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lancashire (County)
District: Lancaster (District)
Parish or ward: Melling-with-Wrayton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SD6072
Four figure Latitude: 54.14226629
Four figure longitude: -2.61379629
1:25K map: SD6072
1:10K map: SD67SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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