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BROOCH
Unique ID: DOR-54F781
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of an initial T-shaped bow brooch, possibly a plate headed type. The wings, fragment of the bow and the stub of a corroded iron pin remain. The wings are short and tubular housing the (probably iron) axis bar for the corroded pin. There is considerable iron corrosion product obscuring the pin and the head of the bow. TAt the head is the stub of a head loop. Below this the remaining bow extends to the break. The bow has a shallow D-shaped cross section and tapers slightly.
Date: Roman - c. AD 70-150
Dimensions: 18.85 mm x 25.88 mm x 18.50 mm
Weight: 9.48 g
Class: T Shaped
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 70
Date to: Circa AD 150
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 18.85 mm
Width: 25.88 mm
Thickness: 18.5 mm
Weight: 9.48 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCMS 019377
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: North Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Fifehead Magdalen (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST7821
Four figure Latitude: 50.9879762
Four figure longitude: -2.31481
1:25K map: ST7821
1:10K map: ST72SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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