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BROOCH
Unique ID: YORYM-D82EC6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast copper-alloy cruciform brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date. All that remains is the headplate, with a half-round integral knob at the top. The knob has a deep base, a wide waist and a small dome with a possibly incomplete extra projection above the dome. The headplate is undecorated but in poor condition, so there may have been some form of decoration which is now lost. On the reverse is a pierced pin lug with the remains of the iron pin bar and one coil of the spring visible as corrosion. The brooch fragment is 31.8mm long, 25.9mm wide and 2.3mm thick.
Notes:
This object was recorded by Jim Halliday and the information was passed to the PAS along with the photograph. The FLO has not seen the item.
Class: cruciform
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 450
Date to: Circa AD 600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 31.8 mm
Width: 25.9 mm
Thickness: 2.3 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Ryedale (District)
To be known as: Acklam
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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