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BROOCH
Unique ID: WILT-D91959
Object type certainty: Certain
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A Later Iron Age to Early Roman copper alloy strip bow brooch, probably dating to c. AD 25-75. The head of the brooch is rolled back to house a copper alloy axis bar, which is retained in situ, with a rectangular slot cut into the reverse of the head to accomodate a hinged copper alloy pin, which also survives. Below the head the bow is flat in cross section, tapering towards the foot which is unelaborated. An integral unperforated catchplate projects from the reverse, now slightly deformed. The bow is undecorated.
Length 58.8mm; width 20.9mm; thickness 4.4mm; weight 4.73g.
Bayley & Butcher (2004: fig. 119) illustrate comparable examples, with further parallels excavated in Roman contexts at Dorchester are published by Woodward et al. (1993: fig. 61, nos. 32, 35-36).
Class: Strip bow
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 25
Date to: Circa AD 75
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 58.8 mm
Width: 20.9 mm
Thickness: 4.4 mm
Weight: 4.73 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 5499
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: West Lavington (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU0153
Four figure Latitude: 51.2761454
Four figure longitude: -1.98704796
1:25K map: SU0153
1:10K map: SU05SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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