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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-B388CB
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Roman copper alloy bow brooch, 56mm long, 25mm wide and 6mm thick with a weight of 12.84grams. The brooch is largely intact, missing its pin, spring and catchplate and part of its open wings. The part that is present is decorated with a series of vertical linear depressions interspersed with raised lines decorated with a series of transverse depressions. The bow is D shaped in section and curves gently. It is decorated, on each side, with a raised line with transverse depressions, running halfway down its length. It is otherwise plain and the catchplate, now present as a scar, begins just before the side decoration stops.
Class: bow
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 56 mm
Width: 25 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight: 12.84 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
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: SK5315
Four figure Latitude: 52.73005195
Four figure longitude: -1.21659762
1:25K map: SK5315
1:10K map: SK51NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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