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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-CB6774
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Roman copper alloy trumpet brooch fragment, 16mm in length, 13mm wide and 6mm thick with a weight of 2.75grams. The object consists of an oval head plate with a rectangular projection, decorated with three ridges, that houses the intact suspension loop. The headplate tapers into a sub-circular cross sectioned bow which is largely missing. The reverse of the headplate houses a rectangular recess for the spring, now missing and is flanked by two semi-circular lugs.
Class:
bow
Sub class: trumpet
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 175
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 16 mm
Width: 13 mm
Thickness: 6 mm
Weight: 2.75 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Charnwood (District)
Parish or ward: Anstey (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK5407
Four figure Latitude: 52.65804317
Four figure longitude: -1.20310095
1:25K map: SK5407
1:10K map: SK50NW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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