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BROOCH
Unique ID: LIN-5AD445
Object type certainty: Certain
Fragment of an Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy cruciform brooch. Only part of the headplate remains. The headplate was originally flat and rectangular, and divided into three narrower rectangular panels but is now distorted. The headplate had integral half-rounded side knops; only one remains. The remains of a pin lug is visible in the centre of the reverse.
Class: Cruciform
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa AD 500
Date to: Circa AD 600
Dimensions and weight
Length: 23 mm
Width: 26 mm
Thickness: 1 mm
Quantity: 1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Cast [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Incomplete [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Spatial data
Region: East Midlands
County: Lincolnshire
District: West Lindsey
To be known as: Gainsborough area
Method of discovery: Metal detector
[scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]
Personal details
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Recorded by: Adam Daubney
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Identified by: Adam Daubney - [view all attributed records]
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Created:
Thursday 5th January 2012
Updated: Thursday 5th January 2012
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