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Unique ID: WILT-A4367E
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete Roman copper alloy hinged 'initial' T-shaped brooch, probably dating to c. AD 50-100. The surviving fragment comprises of the right wing and upper bow, with the rest of the brooch lost to old breaks. There is no indication of a headplate.
At the head of the brooch the right wing survives complete, to a width of 28.5mm, the left lost to an old break. The wing is cylindrical, and retains an iron axis bar in situ. The front of the wing is decorated with four raised bands, the outer on the wing tip, and the innermost leaning in towwards the head of the brooch. The bow expands from the head with a width of 14.6mm, although with the left edge heavily abraded; it is 3.4mm thick, with a flat front and slightly convex reverse. The bow is decorated with a thick, central longitudinal band. A transverse line is incised below the head of the brooch and marks the point at which the central band divides into four ridges, the central two zig-zagging down the length of the band. Two rows of lightly punched chevrons border this central band.
Overall dimentions: length 28.7mm; width 36.4mm; thickness at head 5.0mm; weight 9.11g.
The form, decoration and lack of headplate would all suggest an identification as an intial T-shaped brooch, dated by Bayley & Butcher (2005) to the Flavian period, who suggest a south-western distribution for the type.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Circa AD 100
Quantity: 1
Length: 28.7 mm
Width: 36.4 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight: 9.11 g
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Other reference: SSWM 5368
4 Figure: ST9634
Four figure Latitude: 51.10528443
Four figure longitude: -2.05851037
1:25K map: ST9634
1:10K map: ST93SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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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 |