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BROOCH
Unique ID: LVPL-760C00
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Decorated Roman trumpet brooch. Pierced lug incorporating a downward facing hook beneath on the back of the head would have held the spring, which is missing. Oval head with rim around outer edge defined by a roulletting. Plain, fully rounded waist moulding; lower bow decorated with a median rib and a rib on each outer edge. There are four punched annulets on one side of the lower bow beneath the waist moulding. The bow terminates with a moulded foot knob that it degraded due to corrosion. The catchplate is slightly degraded due to corrosion. Traces of tinning visible on all parts of the brooch.
Class: Trumpet
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 75
Date to: Circa AD 175
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 49 mm
Width: 14 mm
Weight: 12.93 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st September 2006
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: White metal coated
Spatial metadata
Region: North West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
District: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Over Alderley (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SJ8675
Four figure Latitude: 53.271799
Four figure longitude: -2.211386
1:25K map: SJ8675
1:10K map: SJ87NE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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