Record ID: LIN-8A33E5 - IRON AGE brooch

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Brooch

Unique ID: LIN-8A33E5

Object type certainty: Certain

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Fragment of a Langton Down brooch. The brooch has a wide flat reeded bow. Spring, pin and catchplate missing. Langton Down brooches came to Britain from Gaul during the early 1st century AD through pre-conquest intercourse, and then in greater numbers with the Roman forces, dying out soon after the mid 1st-century. In Britain they are mainly confined to the south.

Class: Langton Down

Subsequent actions

Current location of find: City and County Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Period to: ROMAN [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: Circa AD 25
Date to: Circa AD 60

Dimensions and weight

Length: 40 mm
Width: 12 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: Fragment [scope notes | view all attributed records]

Spatial data

Region: East Midlands
County: Lincolnshire
District: East Lindsey
Parish: Ludford

Restricted 4 Figure grid reference: TF2089
The map has been degraded and provides an approximate location with a degree of random obfuscation.
Grid reference source:
Grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.

Method of discovery: Metal detector [scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 1999

Personal details

Identified by: Adam Daubney - [view all attributed records]

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