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BROOCH
Unique ID: GLO-E85384
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy Roman bow brooch fragment that consists of the upper half of the brooch. The brooch has Tubular wings hold the pin axis bar; there is a slot in the centre of the wings at the rear for the pin which is still retained although only the top half survives. There is a loop at the top of the undecorated and an expanded lozenge shaped flat panel at the apex of the bow. The panel is decorated with a series of transverse cells, these cells may have been filled with a substance, most likely enamel, but the item has ben coated in wax preventing a confident identification. The broch was original coated in a white metal.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25 mm
Width: 19 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight: 5.37 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 25th November 2017
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Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Gloucestershire (County)
District: Stroud (District)
Parish or ward: Slimbridge (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO7303
Four figure Latitude: 51.72506356
Four figure longitude: -2.3922955
1:25K map: SO7303
1:10K map: SO70SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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