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BROOCH
Unique ID: NMS-702E42
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
T-shape brooch, part of integral chain-loop, and lower bow missing. Wings decorated with single flute or broad moulded groove. One wing is a cast tube into which the axis bar has been inserted, while the other has been curled around the axis bar with a butt joint or seam. The end of the two-coil spring, visible in a gap at the rear, is lodged in a slot at the base of the gap. The pin is complete but distorted. On the front of the top of the bow a moulded triangle, apex downwards, is decorated with transverse slightly curved grooves. Later 1st - 2nd century.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 50
Date to: Circa AD 199
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 12th October 2009
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 18849
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
To be known as: Barton Bendish
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
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