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BROOCH

Unique ID: NMS-A54510

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Iron Age / Romano-British Langton Down brooch, spring, pin and foot missing. A faint line of probably engraved zig-zag or rocker-arm across the top of the head, while the front is decorated in relief with a triangular moulding enclosing three dots, between two scroll mouldings. Cf. Hattatt no.270, “hooks and eyes”. Below a transverse groove at the top the D-section bow is apparently undecorated. A continental variety, so called Nertomarus type, Hattatt (1985), 36. First half 1st century

Class: Langton Down
Sub class: Nertomarus type

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: AD 1
Date to: AD 50

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Monday 10th May 2004

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
To be known as: Shouldham

Spatial coordinates

Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Hattatt, R.	1985	Iron Age and Roman Brooches	Oxford	Oxbow Books		#270

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Recording Institution: NMS
Created: 19 years ago
Updated: 8 years ago

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