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BROOCH
Unique ID: ASHM-B8D8CB
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman Colchester derivative, double-lugged, Harlow style brooch, dating to the 1st century AD. The brooch has a moulded ribbed bow and wings and an incised horizontal line across the foot and lower section of the bow. The pin missing but the sprting is extant; the spring is of a different alloy/colour to the brooch but it is not as starkly different from the other brooches from the area; a brooch is almost identical style is recorded here: ASHM-B75F24.
Notes:
Cf ASHM-B75F24.
Class: Colchester derivative, double-lugged, Harlow
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Undergoing further examination at a museum
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 50.5 mm
Width: 20.8 mm
Weight: 6.4 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: ASHMBD492
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: Vale of White Horse (District)
To be known as: Childrey
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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