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BROOCH
Unique ID: WILT-606C66
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of a Roman copper alloy brooch, probably a Colchester derivative type, dating to c. AD 50-125. The surviving portion comprises of the foot of the brooch, which tapers to an unelaborated point, with an unperforated, sub-triangular catchplate projecting from the reverse. The pin rest curves right. The bow is lost to an old break, it is sub-oval in cross section.
Dimensions: 25.6mm; 3.8510.1 2.16g.
It is difficult to assign such a small fragment to a specific type, however the form and lack of elaboration of the foot would probably suggest an earlier Colchester derivative, cf. SOM-8100BB.
Class: Colchester derivative
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Circa AD 125
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25.6 mm
Width: 3.85 mm
Thickness: 10.1 mm
Weight: 2.16 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 5373
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: West Oxfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP3503
Four figure Latitude: 51.72463397
Four figure longitude: -1.49468843
1:25K map: SP3503
1:10K map: SP30SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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