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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-D89B21
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Roman copper alloy bow brooch, 45mm in length, 27mm wide and 9mm thick with a weight of 10.57grams. The brooch has solid circular sectioned wings with a central recessed pin mechanism, the pin is missing. It has a semi-circular cross sectioned bow which is plain and thins out towards its base where it houses the remains of a catchplate.
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 75
Date to: Circa AD 200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 45 mm
Width: 27 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight: 10.57 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: Hinckley and Bosworth (District)
Parish or ward: Earl Shilton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP4897
Four figure Latitude: 52.56871551
Four figure longitude: -1.29324536
1:25K map: SP4897
1:10K map: SP49NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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