LEIC-5E26B0: late Iron age/early Roman copper alloy brooch

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BROOCH

Unique ID: LEIC-5E26B0

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

Late Iron age/early Roman copper alloy le Tene III brooch, 51mm long, 26mm wide and 5mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 7.82grams. The object is missing its spring and pin. It has a sub circular section and is curved. Its lower edge flattens out into an incomplete catchplate, which has a triangular form and part of a circular hole visible near its broken edge. The upper part of the brooch narrows and it has snapped just where it begins to curl back on itself to form the spring. The brooch matches example 12 in Fig.149 in Hattatt's ancient brooches.

Class: le tene III

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: 100 BC
Date to: AD 100

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 51 mm
Width: 26 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight: 7.82 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 10th October 2007

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: East Midlands (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Oadby and Wigston (District)
Parish or ward: Wigston All Saints (District Ward)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SP6198
Four figure Latitude: 52.57640466
Four figure longitude: -1.10128399
1:25K map: SP6198
1:10K map: SP69NW
Grid reference source: Centred on village (which isn't a parish)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Hattatt, R.	2000	A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches	Oxford	Oxbow Books	290/149	12

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Recording Institution: LEIC
Created: 16 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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