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BROOCH
Unique ID: WAW-B9B7CE
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Roman brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011, Part 3, Group 4, flat wing ends type), c.f. Mackreth Type 4.i. Plate 47, AD c. 80-240. The copper alloy brooch has a semi-cylindrical undecorated wing (one wing is missing) with the axis bar, spring and pin all 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 decorated with a vertical ridge which continues down the bow. Either side of the ridge there is a column of high-relief obliquely angled lentoids. Either side of the head there is a slight platform. Only a trace of the bow remains and it is oval in section. The break of the bow is not too recent.
The surface of the brooch has a well-developed grey-green patina which is heavily abraded.
It measures 27.55mm in length, 15.24mm in width, and weighs 5.72g.
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 and suggest they date to AD 80 to 120. Mackreth (2011) classifies this type as a Type 4i.
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. 2011 Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain Volume 1 Oxford: Oxbow Books
Class:
Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011, Part 3, Group 4.i, flat wing ends type)
Sub class: Mackreth Type 4.i. Plate 47
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 80
Date to: Circa AD 240
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 27.55 mm
Width: 15.24 mm
Weight: 5.72 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 4th October 2017 - Wednesday 7th February 2018
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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: Ombersley (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO8364
Four figure Latitude: 52.27388515
Four figure longitude: -2.25056798
1:25K map: SO8364
1:10K map: SO86SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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