Rights Holder: North Lincolnshire Museum
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Unique ID: NLM-83EA87
Object type certainty: Possibly
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Copper alloy with white metal plating brooch fragment. Cast plate brooch, Mackreth type British Plate 2.b. Cast discoid plate with a central annulus and six projecting lobes against a bordered field retaining (now) dark green enamel. Traces of plating appear on the outer rim of the display face, on the central annulus, and at the bulbous ends of the lobes which radiate from it. The stub of a folded catch plate and paired lugs retaining two coils of a spring remain at the back of the brooch. Suggested date: Roman, mainly Later Roman, 175-300.
Diameter: 20.4mm, Thickness (clear of pin gear): 1.7mm, Weight: 3.51gms.
Class: Mackreth type British Plate 2.b
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 175
Date to: Circa AD 300
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 1.7 mm
Weight: 3.51 g
Diameter: 20.4 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 24th October 2013
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Other reference: NLM24836a
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Multiple
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.
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