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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-941403
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Early medieval lead alloy cruciform brooch knop, 18mm long, 19mm wide and 4mm thick. The object is in good condition and weighs 5.39grams. The object is sub rectangular in form with a rounded outer edge and a flat edge opposite this which has a rectangular sectioned fixing prong emerging from it. The object has a hollow underside and is missing one of its egdes. It is decorated with a stylised animal head which has a prominent brow ridge, nose and eye socket formed of a raised line. It has round eyes set inside the sockets and two round 'nostrils' set either side of a small indentation in the centre of the rounded edge. To one side of the head a bird emerges with a narrow curved head and raised circular eye. Its pointed beak curves inwards and joins the main head near its 'brows'. The other side of the head has a slight scar showing that a mirror image of the bird was once present.
Notes:
Although lead brooches are not common, this object 'fits into an emerging pattern of early Anglo-Saxon lead objects' K. Leahy pers comm.
Find of note status
This is a find of note and has been designated: Regional importance
Class: cruciform
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 400
Date to: Circa AD 600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 18 mm
Width: 19 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight: 5.39 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 17th September 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
District: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Little Casterton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF0009
Four figure Latitude: 52.66949552
Four figure longitude: -0.52262153
1:25K map: TF0009
1:10K map: TF00NW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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