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PLATE BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-F0D1C7
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Roman copper alloy zoomorphic brooch. Length 30mm ,width12mm, thickness 8mm, weight 5.61grams. The object has a rectangular form and a D shaped cross section. It has an elongated curved body with a hollow underside which tapers to a point at the pin end. At this end, the underside has a semi-circular projecction which would house a hinged pin. It has a narrow lip around the edge of the upper surface and at the wider end has a spherical projection, sitting in the centre of the rounded upper surface, which resembles a head? the brooch terminates at this end with a narrow rectangular projection, which houses the remains of the catchplate underneath. The brooch may be formed to resemlbe a bird, although its shape is reminiscent of a sphinx or a lion? with possible feet represented by the rectangular projection at the wide end underneath the head.
Class: zoomporphic
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30 mm
Width: 12 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight: 5.61 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: Blaby (District)
Parish or ward: Blaby (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP5897
Four figure Latitude: 52.56774341
Four figure longitude: -1.14572275
1:25K map: SP5897
1:10K map: SP59NE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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