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BROOCH
Unique ID: LANCUM-153231
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Cast cu-alloy complete annular brooch dating from the medieval period, i.e. c. AD 1300-1400. The brooch is complete with ring and pin and the pin is moving freely around the brooch frame, i.e. there is no pin rest or recess for the loop. The pin is undecorated and had a circular cross-section whilst the cross-section of the frame is flat-oval. It is plain on the reverse and has an incised decoration (bundles of incised lines at irregular intervals) on the obverse.
Class: Annular
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 3 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Diameter: 35 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cambridgeshire (County)
District: East Cambridgeshire (District)
To be known as: East Cambridgeshire
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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