Rights Holder: North Lincolnshire Museum
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Unique ID: NLM-2FF1C8
Object type certainty: Certain
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Copper alloy brooch fragment. Cast lower bow and foot of a small long or small cruciform brooch, surviving from an indeterminate point in the mid to upper bow down to its foot. At the top of the fragment, paired discoid elements with a single triangular stop below may represent the cheeks or nostrils of an anthropomorphic/zoomorphic mask. A further rounded moulded chevron below this might contribute to these ambiguous motifs, and is supported by two broad collars above a sub-rectangular plain zone limited by pairs of finely moulded ridges and an everted plain sub-rectangular foot. A folded catch plate remains behind the foot of the brooch. The object might point to the proximity of early Anglo-Saxon burials; it now bears a high gloss, perhaps from cleaning by the finder. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 475-550
Length: 39.8mm, Width: 10mm, Thickness (at top): 2.3mm, Weight: 8.21gms.
Class: Small long or cruciform
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 500
Date to: Circa AD 550
Quantity: 1
Length: 39.8 mm
Width: 10 mm
Thickness: 2.3 mm
Weight: 8.21 g
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 26th August 2021
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Other reference: NLM47597
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Zoomorphic
Completeness: Fragment
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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