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BROOCH
Unique ID: NCL-4BCE73
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
The foot terminal of a cast copper-alloy cruciform brooch, dating to the late 5th-early 7th centuries.
The terminal is a spatulate type, with an abraded break where it broke from the foot of the cruciform brooch. The edges of the upper face a decorated with punched C-shapes.
The underside is undecorated.
Class: Cruciform
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Subperiod to: Early
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 475
Date to: Circa AD 625
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.03 mm
Width: 12.26 mm
Thickness: 1.63 mm
Weight: 2 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 2010 - Thursday 18th February 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Wood Enderby (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF2962
Four figure Latitude: 53.139544
Four figure longitude: -0.07298
1:25K map: TF2962
1:10K map: TF26SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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