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BROOCH
Unique ID: SUR-815AB1
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper alloy one-piece Late Iron Age (La Tene 3) boss-on-bow brooch. The intact pin sits within the remains of a broken catchplate.
Notes:
Justine Bayley comments:
The step on the bow is because the end of the bow is hammered out and folded back on itself, and this change in profile is to accommodate this extra piece of metal. Originally the brooch would have been considerably longer than it now is; the catchplate would have extended beyond the end of the pin, which was probably not quite as bent as it now is.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 100 BC
Date to: Circa 50 BC
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 61.03 mm
Width: 9.84 mm
Weight: 5.59 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st July 2011 - Sunday 31st July 2011
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 11-1140
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Surrey (County)
District: Reigate and Banstead (District)
Parish or ward: Salfords and Sidlow (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ2444
Four figure Latitude: 51.181793
Four figure longitude: -0.227284
1:25K map: TQ2444
1:10K map: TQ24SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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