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BROOCH
Unique ID: NLM-A8DF3E
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy and iron brooch fragment. Cast small long brooch, square head plate type - an indentation on one side might suggest a cross potent head but this is not matched elsewhere on the remaining fabric. A thin flat rectangular head has a drilled hole of diameter 2.7mm near opposite corners. A step seperates the head from a keeled bow with a rectangular stop at its base. The lower bow continues straight and slightly tapered, with a pair of incised lines immediately adjacent to a probably ancient break. A pair of lugs retaining iron corrosion represents the pin; the stub of the upper part of a catch plate remains at the back of the lower end of the brooch. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 500-600.
Length: 36.7mm, Width: 24.7mm, Thickness (at mid bow): 3.4mm, Weight: 6.99gms.
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
Date from: Circa AD 500
Date to: Circa AD 600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 36.7 mm
Width: 24.7 mm
Thickness: 3.4 mm
Weight: 6.99 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM28175
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Incomplete
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: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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