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NLM2713: Unidentified. 2713

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UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT

Unique ID: NLM2713

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation

Looks very much like the foot of a brooch, but isn't. No traces of catchplate, also much chunkier.

Notes:

Source record notes this and five other objects were accompanied by Early Anglo-Saxon and Roman pottery.

Checked following Sophie Catley. Dating completed: 'Unknown, Roman to Medieval, 43-1540'. Drawing ref. added.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 43
Date to: AD 1540

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 23.1 mm
Width: 7 mm
Thickness: 9.8 mm
Weight: 6.26 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 22nd October 1998

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: NLM1316

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast

Spatial metadata

Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Isle of Axholme

Spatial coordinates


Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Operations to a depth greater than 0.25m

References cited

No references cited so far.

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Audit data

Recording Institution: NLM
Created: 24 years ago
Updated: 6 years ago

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