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BROOCH
Unique ID: OXON-E090F7
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy brooch of Colchester derivative Polden Hill type of The Western Group Mackreth 2011, Chapter 3, Part 3, CD PH 5.b1. dating to the period AD 75--175. Only the pin is missing. The semi-cylindrical open wings are decorated at the front with transverse ridges/mouldings. The wings have an integral flat end-cap. The end-cap is pierced for the axis bar around which is the coiled spring. The front of the bow is decorated with a central longitudinal ridge which is flanked on either side by a shallow ridge. The lower section of the bow is plain and undecorated and tapers to a rounded point. At the foot of the brooch on the reverse is the catchplate, damaged but complete. The catchplate is openwork with two geomtetric voids. Similar brooches have been published by Hattatt (Hattatt 1989: 301, fig. 160, refs: 382, 383, 901).
Class:
Colchester derivative Polden Hill (flat wing end type)
Sub class: Mackreth 2011, Chapter 3, Part 3, CD PH 5.b1. Plate 50
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Exactly AD 75
Date to: Circa AD 175
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 63.7 mm
Width: 25 mm
Weight: 14.2 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 2019.077
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Geometric
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Gloucestershire (County)
District: Cotswold (District)
Parish or ward: Siddington (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU0499
Four figure Latitude: 51.68974119
Four figure longitude: -1.94353376
1:25K map: SU0499
1:10K map: SU09NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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