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BROOCH
Unique ID: GLO-931F88
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy plate brooch in the shape of a fish. This has a long and thin oval body that expands at one end into a triangular tail that has a concave terminal. The fish is decorated with a serous of recessed cells filled with enamel that highlight that detail of the animal. Starting at the head these consist of a ring in filled with red enamel for the eye behind is a transverse semicircle filed with blue enamel for the gill. The body is decorated with three chevron shaped cells that point to the head with a forth small oval cell behind; these are filled with blue enamel. Running from the gills to that tail on both sides of the body is a wide cell that is filled with red enamel. On the reverse is the mount for the spring, the spring is still in place and is made from three curls, the pin is missing. To the front of the brooch is the catchplate, only the base of which remains.
Class: plate
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 38 mm
Width: 10 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 3.99 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 2017 - Saturday 1st July 2017
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Gloucestershire (County)
District: Stroud (District)
Parish or ward: Slimbridge (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO7304
Four figure Latitude: 51.73405446
Four figure longitude: -2.39237339
1:25K map: SO7304
1:10K map: SO70SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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