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BROOCH
Unique ID: NARC-7243F6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy fragment from a Cruciform Brooch of Early-Medieval date (AD 450-650). The fragment is the foot which is lunate or pelta-shaped and from a small cruciform brooch. The foot is plain and the upper narrowed portion retains some iron corrosion adhearing to the surface, the rest of the brooch is lost.
The metal is a dark green in colour with a predominantly smooth patina.
Similar examples can be seen on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database: NLM-439C48. LEIC-3B4D90 and SF-DB064B.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 450
Date to: Circa AD 650
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 21.98 mm
Width: 28.03 mm
Thickness: 1.82 mm
Weight: 3.2 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Hand made
Decoration style: Geometric
Completeness: Fragment
Surface Treatment: Stamped
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Harborough (District)
Parish or ward: Market Harborough-Little Bowden (District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP7586
Four figure Latitude: 52.46679857
Four figure longitude: -0.89743366
1:25K map: SP7586
1:10K map: SP78NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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