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BROOCH
Unique ID: NLM-AC79D3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy and iron brooch fragment. Plain flat cruciform head plate from a small long brooch, perhaps of cross potent form, retaining a blob of ferrous corrosion on the back, probably masking the coils of a wound iron sprung pin. The form of what remains of the brooch head approaches that of a Latin cross. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 410-600.
Height: 20.1mm, Width: 20mm, Thickness (overall): 10.9mm, Weight: 4.95gms
Class: Small Long
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 410
Date to: Circa AD 600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Height: 20.1 mm
Width: 20 mm
Thickness: 10.9 mm
Weight: 4.95 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 31st July 2018
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM39952
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: West Lindsey (District)
To be known as: near Market Rasen
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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