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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-CA1661
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Roman copper alloy trumpet brooch fragment, 35mm long, 34mm wide and 8mm thick with a weight of 4.86grams. The object consists of the upper part of the brooch. It has an oval headplate with a double semi-circular lug attachment on its reverse and an incomplete attachment loop. From the front of the headplate emerges an oval cross sectioned curved bow which is decorated with three transverse ridges just before the break.
Class: trumpet
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 75
Date to: Circa AD 175
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35 mm
Width: 34 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight: 4.86 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 22x16sxR
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
District: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Rutland
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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