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BROOCH
Unique ID: BERK-08F679
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete lead alloy brooch of Weetch type 13 and late early-medieval or early medieval date. It is unusual in that the flat-topped boss is decorated only with a single central pellet. The flattened outer rim of the brooch is decorated with two circumferential bands of raised pellets and a single solid linear band below the boss. The boss is hollow on the reverse of the brooch, which retains the catchplate and a single pierced lug for a pin; both of these seem (from the photo) to be parallel to the edge of the brooch.
Weetch Type 13 brooches date from the 11th century.
Sub class: Weetch type 13
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 1000
Date to: Circa AD 1100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 4.2 mm
Weight: 6.9 g
Diameter: 24.2 mm
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 2016.884
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: West Oxfordshire (District)
Parish or ward: Northmoor (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP4203
Four figure Latitude: 51.72415476
Four figure longitude: -1.39335167
1:25K map: SP4203
1:10K map: SP40SW
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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