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BROOCH
Unique ID: NARC-F29D93
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An cast copper alloy Dolphin type brooch with hinge mechanism. 1st century AD. There is some active corrosion obscuring the decorative detail. The pin is broken at 18mm and is still connected to the axis bar which is enclosed within the wings, which are rolled around the bar. The wings are 32mm wide. The bow is D-shaped in section and 10mm wide at the head before tapering to a point and small foot.The surviving decoration shows transverse ribs on the wings and zig-zag pattern bordering a central vertical rib along the bow.
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 43
Date to: Circa AD 100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 41 mm
Width: 32 mm
Weight: 8 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: Northamptonshire (County)
District: South Northamptonshire (District)
Parish or ward: Potterspury (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP7345
Four figure Latitude: 52.098533
Four figure longitude: -0.935733
1:25K map: SP7345
1:10K map: SP74NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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