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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-9E26B5
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Roman copper alloy Dolphin type bow brooch, 45mm long, 31mm wide and 14mm thick. The brooch is in fair condition and weighs 11.46grams. It is missing the pin, spring and catch plate. It consists of wide open wings, which are decorated with centrally placed diagonal incised bands with transverse incisions. The wings terminate with a single incised line. The bow is semi-circular in section and also decorated. It has a triangular incised motif at its head which sits above a sub rectangular band formed of four open incised 'leaf' shaped motifs. Below this the bow is plain and contains the remains of a long catch plate.
Class: Dolphin
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 1
Date to: Circa AD 100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 45 mm
Width: 31 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight: 11.46 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Nottinghamshire (County)
District: Newark and Sherwood (District)
Parish or ward: Farnsfield (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK6356
Four figure Latitude: 53.097494
Four figure longitude: -1.060596
1:25K map: SK6356
1:10K map: SK65NW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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