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BROOCH
Unique ID: NLM-AAB0D9
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy and iron brooch fragment. Cast knob from the head of a cruciform brooch. The knob is fully round, with a waisted lug at the end of a hemispherical terminal, separated from a cylindrical base by a deep groove. A pair of smaller grooves passes around the lower edge of the hemispherical terminal, and a similar pair of grooves also passes around the base. The latter bears a deep [c.1mm] groove which passes across it off-centre. An iron pin of diameter c.2mm is discernible passing into the middle of the end of the top or end lug, and rust on the slotted base suggests this passed through to attach knob to brooch. The fully round knob may indicate this to lie earlier in the sequence of cruciform brooches. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 475-550.
Length: 15.7mm, Diameter: 9.9mm, Weight: 5.23gms
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 475
Date to: Circa AD 550
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 15.7 mm
Weight: 5.23 g
Diameter: 9.9 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 10th March 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM35511
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Melton Ross
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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