Rights Holder: North Lincolnshire Museum
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Unique ID: NLM983
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published
Foot of a small long brooch, stylised animals head. This record was created before the Portable Antiquities Scheme began using the Central Database. We are aware that this record falls below our usual standards of recording, and we are working to rectify this.
Notes:
Checked by MF 7/2/17 following Sophie Catley. Image ref. added. ascribed culture - Anglo-Saxon - added.
Helen Geake's comments [below] refer to the wrong illustration which had been attached to this record, as the measurements presented on the record do not match those accompanying the illustration on its source record card. The correct illustration was identified from the measurements cited both on source record card and record derived from it, as well as from its place in a sequence of objects recorded together.
Helen Geake writes: The image linked to this record is not that of a small-long brooch. The Style I decoration of what appears to be a full-face human mask, with the remains of a concave-sided lozenge above, could come from the remains of a footplate terminal lobe from a great square-headed brooch of either Hines's Group IV (Hines 1997, pl. 17) or Group IX (Hines 1997, pls. 31-33) or Group XV (Hines 1997, pls. 47-50). The entry in the classification field has been changed from 'small long' to 'great square headed'.
Class: small long
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: AD 500
Date to: AD 600
Quantity: 1
Length: 40.4 mm
Width: 13.9 mm
Thickness: 4.2 mm
Weight: 6.69 g
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 17th August 1998
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Other reference: NLM1115
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
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