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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-5ADDCB
Object type certainty: Probably
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status: Awaiting validation 
Early Medieval florid cruciform ? brooch fragment, 29mm long, 27mm wide and 4mm thick. The brooch is in fair condition and weighs 10.80 It has a green and brown surface with cracking which suggests it may have been burnt?
The brooch consists of a triangular shaped head plate with a curved upper surface. This sits above the start of a curved bow, now incomplete. The head plate possibly has raised decoration in the centre representing a human face? The reverse of the head plate has a vertical scar where a pin housing would have sat.
Notes:
The brooch was found in close proximity to LEIC-58BEC8 and could be evidence for a cemetery.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 500
Date to: Circa AD 600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 29 mm
Width: 27 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight: 10.8 g
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Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Melton (District)
To be known as: Melton Area
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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