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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-FE595B
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Roman copper alloy Hod hill type bow brooch fragment, 35mm in length, 7mm wide and 2mm thick with a weight of 1.87grams. The object is the lower part of the brooch and consists of the base of a rectangular bow plate whhich has three ridges running down it. Below this it steps back onto a flat plain bow with a collared and lobed terminal. Behind this is a large, incomplete triangular catchplate. The brooch is silvered in places and matches fig.179, eg. 50 In 'a catalogue of Richard Hattatt's ancient brooches'.
Class:
bow
Sub class: Hod hill
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35 mm
Width: 7 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 1.82 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: Harborough (District)
Parish or ward: Hungarton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK7006
Four figure Latitude: 52.64722907
Four figure longitude: -0.96680631
1:25K map: SK7006
1:10K map: SK70NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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