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BROOCH
Unique ID: DOR-EDAD01
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete copper-alloy brooch of the Strip Type.
The pin is missing. At the head are two short, flat wings between which projects the remnant of a forward hook for the attachment of the missing pin chord. The bow is tapering with a flat rectangular bow, similar to strip bow brooches. The bow tapers to a pointed foot at the rear of which is the stub of a small catchplate. The front of the bow is decorated with moulded longitudinal ridges and grooves flanking a central longitudinal knurled ridge. The rear is undecorated.
Date: Roman- c. AD 25-70
Dimensions: 52.21 mm x 16.65 mm x 1.76 mm
Weight: 3.42 g
A similar brooch is recorded in database record DOR-844FA4 in which Joe Bloggs notes " blah blah blah"
See also Hattatt 2000 no. 555
Find of note status
This is a find of note and has been designated: Test
Class: Strip bow
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: Exactly AD 70
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SWHT 000000
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: West Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Cheselbourne (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: ST7500
Four figure Latitude: 50.79901634
Four figure longitude: -2.35610647
1:25K map: ST7500
1:10K map: ST70SE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
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 | no. 555 |
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