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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-7BA295
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Early Medieval copper alloy annular brooch, 29mm in length, 26mm wide and 2mm thick with a weight of 2.63grams. The brooch is circular in form and rectangular in cross section. It has a small circular sectioned bar, 3mm long, set into a recess and this has snapped in half. The upper surface is decorated with two centrally placed lines of dots running its length. On its inner upper edge it has a line of transverse grooves, running up to the line of dots. Its reverse surface is plain and its pin is missing.
Class: Annular
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 450
Date to: Circa AD 600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 29 mm
Width: 26 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 2.63 g
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Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Leicestershire (County)
District: Melton (District)
To be known as: Melton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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