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MOUNT
Unique ID: LIN-0F618F
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An Early Medieval copper alloy Carolingian mount. The brooch has a flat rectangular body with two integral hooked lugs on the reverse, one located in each corner at the surviving end. The other end of the brooch is missing. The face of the brooch is decorated with vegetal mofifs in sunken relief. There are three inward pointing three-leaved plants on both longitudinal edge of the brooch, which flank either side of three larger motifs that run down the centre. Two of the motifs are bow-shaped, while the outermost is triangular and in the form of three leaves. The brooch has a reddish patina with traces of gilding surviving in the sunken fields.
A parallels comes from Kirk Smeaton, West Yorkshire (Thomas 2012, fig.4, no.8)
Reference
Thomas, G. 2012. 'Carolingian Culture in the North Sea World: Rethinking the Cultural Dynamics of Personal Adornment in Viking-Age England. European Journal of Archaeology, 15:3, 486-518.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 820
Date to: Circa AD 1066
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 36 mm
Width: 20 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight: 12.66 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: North Kesteven (District)
To be known as: near Sleaford
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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