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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-601624
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A half-round separately made copper-alloy side knob from an Early Anglo Saxon cruciform brooch. It has a broad collar at the base, a narrow waist and a semi-circular head. The knob has an iron pin bar through it, which would have passed through the central pin bar lug and the opposite knob; this would have served to attach the pin and the knobs to the brooch. There is a slot in the base of the knob into which the side of the brooch headplate would have fitted.
Class: cruciform
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 450
Date to: Circa AD 550
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 15 mm
Width: 12 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight: 4.1 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Nottinghamshire (County)
District: Rushcliffe (District)
Parish or ward: Rempstone (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK5724
Four figure Latitude: 52.81054291
Four figure longitude: -1.15580818
1:25K map: SK5724
1:10K map: SK52SE
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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