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BROOCH
Unique ID: LIN-17C5B5
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An early Roman copper alloy hinged dolphin brooch. The brooch has cylindrical wings containing an axis bar. The pin is missing. Both wings are decorated at their teminal with a vertical groove. The bow is comma shaped in profile and plano-convex in section. The bow is decorated with a groove running down the centre; to either side a series of diagonal downward pointing grooves project, creating a chevron pattern over the face of the bow as a whole. The lower half of the bow is missing.
Class: Hinged dolphin
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: ROMAN
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 75
Date to: Circa AD 150
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 21 mm
Width: 32 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight: 8.27 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st January 2015 - Thursday 10th September 2015
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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: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: near Wragby
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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