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BROOCH
Unique ID: GLO-FDBC50
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Copper alloy Roman Large south-western T-shaped brooch of Hull T139 type, hinged type. Low rectangular head plate surmounted buy a truncated head loop, at the rear of the head plate is a double pierced lug in order to mount the pin which is now missing, this area is encrusted in iron corrosion which is the remains of the pin and pin support bar. The bow is decorated with five groves which run down its length to the final quarter where there are three horizontal recessed bands above an undecorated panel. Semi-circular foot at the base. The catch plate on the reverse is closed.
Class:
Large south-western T-shaped
Sub class: Hull T138-T140; Bayley and Butcher 2004, 167, fig. 140; Hattatt 2000, fig. 163, lower row and fig. 164
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: 80 mm
Width: 27 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight: 36.41 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st July 2017 - Sunday 1st October 2017
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
District: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Tortworth
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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