Rights Holder: North Lincolnshire Museum
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Unique ID: NLM-908608
Object type certainty: Certain
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Cast S-shaped zoomorphic brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date, made from copper alloy with a possible white-metal coating. It comprises an S shaped scroll with each end terminating in a long-beaked predatory bird's head. The division of the bills are each marked by a thin moulded line which expands at its end to represent an eye. Faint traces of a border of crescentic stamps of length 1.7mm appear around the outside of the bodies and necks of the creatures. Patches of white metal appear on an otherwise smooth display face and the back, probably as relicts of silver plating. On the back are the aligned stubs of a hinge position and a catch plate, arranged vertically relative to the brooch front motifs. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 400-550.
Length: 44.9mm, Width: 24.6mm, Thickness (clear of fastening gear): 1.6mm, Weight: 8.15g.
Class: S shaped
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 400
Date to: Circa AD 550
Quantity: 1
Length: 44.9 mm
Width: 24.6 mm
Thickness: 1.6 mm
Weight: 8.15 g
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 26th March 2013
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Other reference: NLM22306a
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Zoomorphic
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Stamped
4 Figure: TA0508
Four figure Latitude: 53.558128
Four figure longitude: -0.416356
1:25K map: TA0508
1:10K map: TA00NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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