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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-63BF17
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Roman copper alloy Polden hill bow brooch, 55mm long, 37mm wide and 15mm thick. The brooch is in fair condition and weighs 17.66grams. The brooch has open wings (missing the spring) which are decorated with two curved lines which flank a small annulet at the top and bottom. flanking in the bow are two lines of rope like decoration. The bow itself sits on a plain platform and is rectangular in section. Each side of this has a recessed border containing a slightly domed plain surface. The front had chevron like linear incisions at its top and is then decorated with two converging recessed bands.
Notes:
hinged, cf. Mackreth pl. 56
South western
Class: polden hill
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: 55 mm
Width: 37 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight: 17.66 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: Leicestershire (County)
District: Hinckley and Bosworth (District)
Parish or ward: Osbaston (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK4204
Four figure Latitude: 52.632135
Four figure longitude: -1.380877
1:25K map: SK4204
1:10K map: SK40SW
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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