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BROOCH
Unique ID: NLM-81ED43
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy and iron brooch. Cast tiny Small Long brooch, comprising a cruciform head of cross potent form with about half of a keeled and curving bow remaining below it. A lug on the back retains the corroded remains of an iron spring or pin, and the back also retains extensive gilding traces. This diminutive version of a common 6th-century form may have served as part of a working pair with NLM-814DFE, reported from the same location. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 500-600.
Length: 26.3mm, Width: 21.1mm, Thickness (head plate): 1.4mm, Weight: 4.43gms.
Class: Small Long
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 500
Date to: Circa AD 600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 26.3 mm
Width: 21.1 mm
Thickness: 1.4 mm
Weight: 4.43 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM28144
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Fragment
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: near Market Rasen
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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