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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-E9D928
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Roman copper alloy Hod Hill brooch fragment, 37mm long, 15mm wide and 5mm thick. The brooch is in fair condition and weighs 3.47grams. The fragment represents the lower half of the brooch and its reverse is mostly the remains of the catchplate. The foot is very worn and sub triangular, this sits below a decorative bow which has a central rounded protrusion broken up by horizontal depressions. Above this, part of the head of the brooch is present and is decorated with three vertical linear depressions. The whole brooch has a dark grey patina which is worn in places to reveal a reddish body.
Notes:
The brooch matches example 317, Fig.181 in Hattat's Visual catalogue.
Class: Hod Hill
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 1
Date to: Circa AD 100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 37 mm
Width: 15 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight: 3.47 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st August 2009 - Monday 31st August 2009
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Melton (District)
Parish or ward: Scalford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK7623
Four figure Latitude: 52.799217
Four figure longitude: -0.874214
1:25K map: SK7623
1:10K map: SK72SE
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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