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BROOCH
Unique ID: LIN-A992E4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Headplate from a sixth-century Anglo-Saxon brooch. The headplate is probably from a Smal-Long brooch. The headplate is rectangular and decorated with a perimeter of punched crescents. The bow is short, arched, and broken at the base. The lower part of the brooch is missing. An incomplete integral pin lug is located in the centre of the reverse.
This is possibly the missing part to LIN-A9CDE3, found close by.
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: 33 mm
Width: 26 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight: 9.06 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st January 2015 - Friday 12th June 2015
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
County or Unitary authority: Nottinghamshire (County)
District: Newark and Sherwood (District)
Parish or ward: North Clifton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK8271
Four figure Latitude: 53.22972019
Four figure longitude: -0.77307027
1:25K map: SK8271
1:10K map: SK87SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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