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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-3E65B6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Late Roman copper alloy crossbow brooch, 47mm long, 49mm wide and 25mm deep. The brooch is in fair condition with some corrosion and weighs 29.12grams. The object consists of all the brooch except the footplate. It has rectangular sectioned bows with vertical linear decoration on the front surface and onion shaped knops, with a third placed centrally at the top. The bow is rectangular sectioned and plain, there is no sign of the pin and a lot of the surface is missing.
Class: crossbow
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 300
Date to: Circa AD 500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 47 mm
Width: 49 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight: 29.12 g
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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: Charnwood (District)
Parish or ward: Seagrave (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK6119
Four figure Latitude: 52.765164
Four figure longitude: -1.097404
1:25K map: SK6119
1:10K map: SK61NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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