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BROOCH
Unique ID: NLM-300537
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Possibly Lead Alloy or Base Silver, possibly with gemstone.
Possible Disc Brooch. Cast flattened plano-convex flan with a central perforation circa 3mm square, with hammered or stamped motifs on both sides. On the convex side there is a cruciform arrangement of finely billeted panels with strings of beads, rays and panels radiating between the arms. On the other side a rectangular cell of circa 4mm square, immediately adjacent to the central aperture, appears to retain a small white crystal or quartz stone. This lies off-centre within a finely beaded circle. The edges of the object are frayed and it may have been burnt. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 800-1000.
Length: 26.7mm, Width: 23.1mm, Thickness: 5.1mm, Weight: 6.55gms.
Notes:
Included in Weetch 2013 as catalogue no. 1024, part of her Type 32 (unclassified).
Class: Disc
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 800
Date to: Circa AD 1000
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 26.7 mm
Width: 23.1 mm
Thickness: 5.1 mm
Weight: 6.55 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 17th March 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM17782
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Secondary material: Gem
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: North Somercotes
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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