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BROOCH
Unique ID: BERK-863D34
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A fragment of an early Anglo-Saxon brooch made from lead, probably a small square-headed brooch. Only the headplate and a small part of the upper bow survive. The bow is curved and the outer face is worn. The headplate is roughly square with a large raised outer border with decoration consisting of an inner border with two raised ribs internally. This may have continued down the bow but it is too worn and fragmentary to tell. To the reverse is a lug. This type of brooch would date from the 5th to 6th century AD.
Compare SWYOR-1ED855.
Class: small square headed
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
Date from: Circa AD 410
Date to: Circa AD 600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 19.3 mm
Width: 17.5 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 6.4 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 2013.957
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: Vale of White Horse (District)
Parish or ward: Letcombe Bassett (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SU3785
Four figure Latitude: 51.56267062
Four figure longitude: -1.46763251
1:25K map: SU3785
1:10K map: SU38NE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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