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BROOCH
Unique ID: NMS-B7F193
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A very unusual continental brooch, incomplete, possibly a Knickfibel (angle-brooch) type. Has an oval-sectioned bow and leg, a straight cut upper end with a projecting integral rivet, the head is missing, has a sharply angled bend above a transverse slightly convex-sided rib, tapering to a point at foot. There is an openwork triangular catch-plate on the reverse with twin transverse lines on the outer face at the base. Measures 5mm x >61mm. Cf. Hattatt (1987) no.754. First half of the 1st century AD.
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: IRON AGE
Date to: AD 50
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 61 mm
Width: 5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st February 2009
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 31814
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
To be known as: Sedgeford
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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