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BROOCH
Unique ID: NMS-DF826F
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Late Iron Age to Roman copper alloy Colchester brooch of Mackreth's (2011) Type 2 dating to the period c. AD 15 - 65. The head exhibits the stubs of flat, rectangular wings, both terminating in old breaks. projecting from the centre of the head is the stub of the integrally cast spring mechanism with, above the stub of the forward facing hook which would have held the external chord in place. The bow tapers back from the head, terminating in a worn break. The foot and catchplate are missing.
See: Mackreth, D.F, 2011, Vol. I, p. 37 & Vol. II, p. 25, pl. 22.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 15
Date to: Circa AD 65
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 48.2 mm
Width: 8.1 mm
Thickness: 7.5 mm
Weight: 3 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 10th April 2018 - Tuesday 10th April 2018
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 56279
Other reference: IND10052018JS
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Shouldham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF6707
Four figure Latitude: 52.63505286
Four figure longitude: 0.46637364
1:25K map: TF6707
1:10K map: TF60NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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