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BROOCH
Unique ID: LIN-92B4C0
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper alloy brooch dating to the late Iron Age. The brooch is a simple one-piece brooch made, as the name suggests, from one piece of copper alloy. The head is formed by four loops and an internal chord; the pin is missing. The bow expands forwards from the central chord at the base of the head. This is oval in section and leads to a swollen oval boss with a narrow collar above and below. A flat rectangular panel is located below the boss, decorated on the front with two horizontal grooves set one above the other. The lower bow is rectangular in section and decorated on the front with a central groove flanked on either side with a row of thin diagonal grooves angled upwards and outwards. The foot is missing.
Class: La Tene III One Piece
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: IRON AGE
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: IRON AGE
Date from: Circa 10 BC
Date to: Circa AD 43
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 48 mm
Width: 11 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight: 11.88 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: Lincolnshire (County)
District: East Lindsey (District)
To be known as: Skendleby area
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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