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BROOCH
Unique ID: NLM-38E781
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy and lead possible brooch fragment. Cast fragment probably from the foot of a cruciform brooch. The fragment comes from close to the lower end [as conventionally viewed] of a cruciform brooch, and appears to comprise a horse head terminal with features appearing as brows and eyes below a slight constriction at its top, above which it is broken. The lower end is also lost at a break which falls across a cavity in the flat back of the object. Unless simply a casting flaw, this might relate to the former attachment of a catch plate hereabouts, and it is possibly filled with lead - the mass of this small object may tend to confirm this. The object is fiercely abraded. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 500-600.
Length: 29.8mm, Width: 10.2mm, Thickness: 7.0mm, Weight: 9.62gms
Class: Cruciform
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 500
Date to: Circa AD 600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 29.8 mm
Width: 10.2 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight: 9.62 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 6th August 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM33774
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Lead
Decoration style: Zoomorphic
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Burgh le Marsh
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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