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BROOCH
Unique ID: NARC-FDD941
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Cast copper alloy piece bow Colchester Two-piece brooch. At the rear back of the head is a double pierced lug for the spring (now missing). Small rectangular wings flank the head. The bow is plains and the catch plate is truncated.The copper alloy is pitted and has heavy iron staining giving it a brown colour.
Class: Colchester Two-piece
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: 35 mm
Width: 17 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight: 3 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: South Northamptonshire (District)
Parish or ward: Hackleton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP8253
Four figure Latitude: 52.169182
Four figure longitude: -0.80245
1:25K map: SP8253
1:10K map: SP85SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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