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BROOCH
Unique ID: NMS-611806
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Lower part of the foot and the catchplate of a Late Iron Age to Early Roman copper alloy Langton Down brooch. There are three ribs and two grooves on the bow which widens slightly from the break, and the catchplate is pierced by a four-sided aperture, perhaps intended to be triangular. Extant length 21.5mm. Width 5 - 6.1mm. c.25 - c.60 AD
Class: Langton Down
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 25
Date to: Circa AD 60
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 21 mm
Width: 6.1 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 3rd May 2014 - Tuesday 23rd September 2014
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 53781
Other reference: RC092014
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Breckland (District)
Parish or ward: Lexham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF8417
Four figure Latitude: 52.71935624
Four figure longitude: 0.72287507
1:25K map: TF8417
1:10K map: TF81NW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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