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BROOCH
Unique ID: KENT-4312F4
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A thin incomplete copper-alloy Roman (AD 43-60) rear-hook Colchester derivative brooch.
Description The historic break is across the coil and wings, leaving residual fragments. the rearhook survies as a small stub. The bow is very thin and arched creating a comma shape and is circular in cross-section and tapers to a pointed. The lower 14.45mm is bent over at a right ange to the cross bar. It has light blue/green corrosion on all surfaces.
Measurements- length: 66.39mm, diameter: 4.44mm, weight: 4.62g.
Class: Colchester derivative (rear Hook)
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 44
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 66.39 mm
Width: 10.93 mm
Weight: 4.62 g
Diameter: 4.44 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Folkestone and Hythe (District)
Parish or ward: Elham and Stelling Minnis (District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TR1944
Four figure Latitude: 51.15333176
Four figure longitude: 1.13020128
1:25K map: TR1944
1:10K map: TR14SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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