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BROOCH
Unique ID: CORN-9E6AE7
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete Langton Down strip brooch dating from the early Roman period, made of a strip of thin copper alloy sheet metal, folded into a tube at the top to hold the pin mechanism. Only one of the wings and the bow of the brooch survive with a tapering body with three broad parallel longitudinal grooves down the front face. The foot, catchplate, pin, spring mechanism and one of the wings are all missing. The brooch appears to have been coated in a black substance, perhaps burnt organic material having been part of a cremation burial, which has since rubbed off on the upstanding surfaces but remains in the grooves and on much of the back of the brooch.
Langton Down brooches are native to Britain, being copies of Cotinental imports to Britain before the Roman conquest in AD 43. They continued to be produced in Britain until c.AD 65.
Hattatt (2000) illustrates a similar Langton Down brooch on p.306, fig.165, no.39, which is dated from the 1st century AD.
Class: Langton Down
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 25
Date to: Circa AD 65
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25 mm
Height: 6 mm
Width: 14 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Weight: 1.29 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 5th November 2017 - Sunday 5th November 2017
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: West Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Loders (District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SY5293
Four figure Latitude: 50.73461929
Four figure longitude: -2.68153238
1:25K map: SY5293
1:10K map: SY53NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hattatt, R. | 2000 | A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches | Oxford | Oxbow Books | p.306, fig.165 | no.39 |
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