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BROOCH
Unique ID: DUR-6EA782
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of copper alloy cruciform brooch dating to the early early-medieval period, c. AD 450-550.
The head and most of the bow of the brooch are missing with the base of the bow present, curving to meet the foot plate. There are a series of horizontal bands and raised collars across the upper part of the foot of the brooch before it terminates in an animal head terminal. This animal head has two raised pellets which represent the eyes. Below the eyes are comma-shaped nostrils, flat undecorated circles with small oblique extensions running upward and outward. Below is a flat sub-triangular projection. The back of the object is flat and undecorated with the remains of the catchplate present on the reverse of the upper, flat part of the foot.
There are similar cruciform footplates listed in MacGregor and Bolick (1993: 106-7).
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: 49.69 mm
Width: 14.48 mm
Weight: 10.3 g
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Spatial metadata
Region: North East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
District: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Kirkwhelpington (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: NZ0179
Four figure Latitude: 55.10540977
Four figure longitude: -1.98586432
1:25K map: NZ0179
1:10K map: NZ07NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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