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BROOCH
Unique ID: NLM-AABA52
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy and iron brooch fragment. Cast fully round knob from a miniature cruciform brooch, possibly a detached element from NLM-AA9E21 with which this object was bagged. Of fully round form, with a hemispherical terminal separated by a deep [c.1mm] and wide [2.3mm] groove from a short cylindrical base from which projects a tapered D section lug with three circumferential grooves which confer the appearance of a worn screw thread. However, unlike the top knob still attached to the other brooch, this example has a mass of ferrous corrosion at its end and attached to the D section basal lug, presumably formerly securing it to the head plate. The fully round form and separate knob may both point to an earlier place in the sequence of cruciform brooches. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 475-550.
Length: 13.6mm, Diameter: 5.7mm, Weight: 1.37gms
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: 13.6 mm
Weight: 1.37 g
Diameter: 5.7 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 10th March 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM35512
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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