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BROOCH
Unique ID: NCL-D64D02
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper-alloy small long brooch of 6th century date.
The brooch is incomplete, with the incomplete head and only a portion of the upper bow remaining. The bow was probably carinated with notched corners. The head had a square central plate, with integrally cast side and top plates. The lower edge of the sideplates seemed to have merged with the central plate, but only the base of the sideplates remain, and their shape is uncertain. The top of the sideplates, however, were notched, as is visible on one of the sidplates of this brooch. The base of the topplate remains as well. It can be speculated that they were fan-shaped, based on the pattern of breakage, but this is only speculation. Three very faint stamped circles can be seen on the larger fragment of remaining sideplate.
The underside of the head bears an incomplete single lug that would have taken the hinge pin.
Class: Small long
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 500
Date to: Circa AD 600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.22 mm
Width: 22.41 mm
Thickness: 2.24 mm
Weight: 4.6 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st August 2010 - Sunday 31st October 2010
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: North East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
District: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Ulgham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: NZ2392
Four figure Latitude: 55.221697
Four figure longitude: -1.640005
1:25K map: NZ2392
1:10K map: NZ29SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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