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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-63E55B
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Roman copper alloy large trumpet brooch with enamel inlay, 47mm long, 16mm wide and 7mm thick (at neck) with a weight of 14.46grams. The brooch is almost complete, missing its foot and pin. It has a rounded head with a flat, oval shaped underside containing a spring of 6 coils. The head tapers down to form a D cross-sectioned shaft and is decorated with 6 enamel cells arranged around a slight central vertical ridge. Two large blue crescentric cells sit in the middle, one on each side of the ridge forming a mirror image. Above and below this are small white triangular cells, with a flat side butting up to the ridge. The bow is decorated with a large acanthus scroll collar below which the bow has a central vertical ridge and the remains of the catchplate run down its reverse.
Class: Trumpet
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 75
Date to: Exactly AD 175
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 49 mm
Width: 16 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 14.46 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Enamel
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Charnwood (District)
Parish or ward: Woodhouse (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK5415
Four figure Latitude: 52.72995324
Four figure longitude: -1.20179086
1:25K map: SK5415
1:10K map: SK51NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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