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BROOCH
Unique ID: LIN-1B9461
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A Middle Saxon copper alloy ansate brooch. The brooch originally had two equally lengthed arms; the surviving one is rectangular in plan and domed in section. The brooch has a high arch in the centre with each side decorated with three pairs of incised lines. Two incomplete lugs extend from the bottom of the surviving arm.
Class: Ansate
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 720
Date to: Circa AD 850
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 24 mm
Width: 6 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight: 2.59 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
Parish or ward: Hogsthorpe (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF5473
Four figure Latitude: 53.23171135
Four figure longitude: 0.30574724
1:25K map: TF5473
1:10K map: TF57SW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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