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BROOCH
Unique ID: WAW-E50773
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Roman brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011, Chapter 3, Part 3, Group 4a or 4b, Plate 46, AD c. 75-400. The copper alloy brooch has semi-cylindrical incomplete wings with a trace of a perforated wing cap. The axis bar, spring and pin are missing. At the centre of the upper edge of the wings there is a trace of an integral hook. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and is undecorated. There are mouldings on the side of the bow head. The bow is oval in section and tapers to a blunt broken terminal.
The surface of the brooch has an incomplete mid brown patina.
It measures 39.45mm in length, 14.09mm in width, and weighs 9.8g.
The brooch is a Polden Hill type, Bayley and Butcher (2004:160) comment that the distribution of Polden Hill brooches are concentrated in the West Midlands. Mackreth classifies this type as Group 4a or 4b dating to late 1st to 4th century.
Bayley, J. and Butcher, S., 2004 Roman Brooches in Britain: A technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection London: Society of Antiquaries
Mackreth, D. F. 2011Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain Volume 1 Oxford: Oxbow Books
Class:
Colchester derivative, Polden Hill
Sub class: Mackreth, 2011, Chapter 3, Part 3, Group 4a or b, Plate 46
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 75
Date to: Circa AD 400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 39.45 mm
Width: 14.09 mm
Weight: 9.8 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 5th July 2017 - Wednesday 4th October 2017
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Worcestershire (County)
District: Wychavon (District)
Parish or ward: Dodderhill (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO8965
Four figure Latitude: 52.28302942
Four figure longitude: -2.16266712
1:25K map: SO8965
1:10K map: SO86NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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