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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-644B72
Object type certainty: Certain
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Roman copper alloy trumpet brooch fragment, 27mm long, 10mm wide and 5mm thick with a weight of 4.39grams. The brooch consists of the centre of its bow. It has a D shaped cross section and is decorated with a raised collar flanked by two rounded recesses which are picked out with incised lines at either side. Just below this decoration the start of the catchplate is visible on the 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: 27 mm
Width: 10 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight: 4.39 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Charnwood (District)
Parish or ward: Barrow upon Soar (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK5718
Four figure Latitude: 52.7566118
Four figure longitude: -1.15685095
1:25K map: SK5718
1:10K map: SK51NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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