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BROOCH
Unique ID: WILT-97BEFD
Object type certainty: Probably
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete Late Iron Age to Early Roman copper alloy strip bow brooch, probably dating to c. AD 25-75. Mackreth 2011, Chapter 6, Part 3, DURO 5.c. The head of the brooch has been lost to an old break, with a sub-rectangular bow tapering from 7.8mm wide below the head into a rounded foot. The bow has a slightly concave reverse. The front of the bow is decorated with two longitudinal channels containing a reserved wavy line, one running down either edge of the bow. An incomplete catchplate projects from the reverse, 9.8mm in height.
Dimensions: 54.5mm in length; 7.8mm in width; 3.4g in weight.
cf Mackreth 2011: 104, plt. 101 nos. 6660 & 6796.
Class: Mackreth 2011, Chapter 6, Part 3, DURO 5.c
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 25
Date to: Circa AD 75
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 54.5 mm
Width: 7.8 mm
Weight: 3.4 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 5481
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 Knoyle (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST8634
Four figure Latitude: 51.1051254
Four figure longitude: -2.20134095
1:25K map: ST8634
1:10K map: ST83SE
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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