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BROOCH
Unique ID: NMS-079914
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Fragment of copper alloy Roman Colchester Derivative Harlow type brooch. Half of the spring, the pin, lower part of the bow and catchplate are missing, all from old breaks. The remainder of the brooch, the external chord and half the axis bar survive. Both wings are flat, sub-rectangular in section and are decorated on their upper faces with twin oblique grooves The undecorated bow curves up from the wings and narrows in width along it's length before terminating at an old break. The bow cross-section is that of a shallow D, flanked with moulded slightly flanged sides. Circa AD43-80.
Class: Colchester
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 80
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32 mm
Width: 25 mm
Weight: 7.91 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 9th March 2018 - Friday 9th March 2018
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 62927
Other reference: IND19072018GC
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Breckland (District)
Parish or ward: Rocklands (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL9995
Four figure Latitude: 52.51653823
Four figure longitude: 0.93142639
1:25K map: TL9995
1:10K map: TL99NE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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