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BROOCH
Unique ID: HAMP-B3246A
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A worn, incomplete Roman (AD 100-250) copper alloy enamelled umbonate plate brooch, missing some of the enamelling and some of the plate itself, as well as the lug and pin attachment and most of the catchplate. It is now quite squashed.
The brooch comprises a dome of sheet metal. At the centre of this is a circular depression, 1.9mm in diameter and 0.6mm deep. A groove flanks this and around is a sunburst design of fourteen radiating elongated triangles. Eight of these (in two groups of four) contain traces of a decayed, reddish-coloured enamel. The remaining triangles are all either open work or perforated, some carrying traces of decayed enamel. Surrounding these are fourteen rather squatter triangles, six of these with traces of decayed blue enamel. The remaining are again openwork or partly so.
To the reverse edge is a small projecting triangle with a recent break, presumably originally the catchplate. At the edge opposite is a evidence of another break, presumably for the pin lug.
The brooch measures 20.4mm in length and diameter, with a squashed width of 15.9mm. The plate is 1.1mm thick. The object weighs 1.97g.
Notes:
Similar examples of unbonate type brooches can be found in Hattatt's Visual Catalogue (2000), p.350, fig.209.
Class: Umbonate
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 250
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 20.4 mm
Width: 15.9 mm
Thickness: 1.1 mm
Weight: 1.97 g
Diameter: 20.4 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Hampshire Cultural Trust Object Entry Form WINCM 696
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Inlaid with enamel
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Test Valley (District)
To be known as: Thruxton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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