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BROOCH
Unique ID: WMID-D5006D
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper alloy plate brooch dating to the Roman period (80-250 AD). The face is almost flat, with a slight horizontal indentation across the centre-width. It is undecorated and somewhat pitted, and is blackish green in colour, possibly indicating a worn coating. The object has a roughly oval outline with straight upper and lower edges.
The reverse of the brooch is flat. The incomplete and damaged lug for the hinge or spring remains. On the opposite edge to the spring are the remains of the catch-plate. The object is 21.62mm long, 15.33mm wide, 8.33 mm thick to include the projections and weighs 5.42g.
The design to the oval plate brooch is similar to a number recorded in the Roman period and has thus been assigned a Roman date comparable with brooches recorded in A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches all of which have been dated to the 2nd century AD (figure 203, page 344). A similar object recorded on the PAS database is LEIC-102E8B, a copper alloy plate brooch. Also BERK-362EF5, a cast copper-alloy flat, enamelled, disc (sexfoil) plate brooch of Roman date (80-250 AD).
Class: Plate
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 80
Date to: Circa AD 250
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 21.62 mm
Width: 15.33 mm
Thickness: 8.33 mm
Weight: 5.44 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Black coated
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
District: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Sheriffhales (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SJ7512
Four figure Latitude: 52.70508621
Four figure longitude: -2.37143151
1:25K map: SJ7512
1:10K map: SJ71SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hattatt, R. | 2000 | A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches | Oxford | Oxbow Books | 344 | Fig 203 |
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