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BROOCH
Unique ID: DEV-A56EE6
Object type certainty: Certain
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A Late Iron Age to Early Roman copper alloy hinged strip bow brooch, probably dating to AD 25-70. The brooch survives largely complete, missing only its axis bar and pin.
The head of the brooch survives to a width of 10.3mm, it consists of a rectangular sheet of copper alloy with a central slot to accomodate a hinged pin, this is rolled around underneath itself to form a cylindrical casing for an axis bar, now lost. The head tapers into the bow, which thickens into a sub-rectangualr cross section, which continues to taper into an unelaborated foot. The upper bow is delineated from the lower by a double-stranded transverse collar of incised lines, with an incised line running down either longitudinal edge, following the sides of the bow and converging slightly towards the foot. The lower bow is undecorated, an unperforated sub-triangular catplate projects from the reverse of the foot.
Dimensions: length 58.6mm; width 10.3mm; thickness of bow 2.5mm, at catchplate 5.7mm; weight 3.62g.
Bayley & Butcher (2004: fig. 119) illustrate comparable examples, with further parallels excavated in Roman contexts at Dorchester are published by Woodward et al. (1993: fig. 61, nos. 32, 35-36).
Class: Strip bow
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 20
Date to: Circa AD 75
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 58.6 mm
Width: 10.3 mm
Thickness: 5.7 mm
Weight: 3.62 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 8th October 2017 - Sunday 8th October 2017
Rally details.
This object was found at Piddletrenthide 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt: 017645
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: West Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Piddletrenthide (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SY7098
Four figure Latitude: 50.78079343
Four figure longitude: -2.42688847
1:25K map: SY7098
1:10K map: SY78NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bayley, J. and Butcher, S. | 2004 | Roman Brooches in Britain: A Technological and Typological Study Based on the Richborough Collection | London | The Society of Antiquaries | |||
| Woodward, P.J., Davies, S.M. and Graham, A.H. | 1993 | Excavations at Greyhound Yard, Dorchester 1981-4 | Dorchester | Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society |
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