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BROOCH
Unique ID: FAKL-9EE001
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Foot from an Anglo-Saxon brooch of either cruciform or small-long type. The terminal is expanded and round ended, its face decorated with a single ring and dot motif. Above the terminal the is a transverse bar across which is a groove. Above the bar are three transverse mouldings. At the point of truncation are two lateral projections which represent lappets. The lower edge of the lappets is marked by an incised, transverse line. One the underside of the fragment is a 22.0mm long catch plate.
Notes:
This brooch is not easily classified as it has aspects of both cruciform and small-long brooches. Its small size in combination with the use of lappets point to it being a small long brooch
Class: Small-long
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 500
Date to: Circa AD 550
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 37.5 mm
Height: 9.1 mm
Width: 12.3 mm
Thickness: 2.7 mm
Weight: 8.09 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 303
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
District: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Welton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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