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BROOCH
Unique ID: LEIC-36B911
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Roman copper alloy Hod Hill bow brooch, 25mm in length, 14mm wide and 3mm thick with a weight of 2.12grams.
The brooch is incomplete and consists of a rectangular shaped and cross sectioned bow. This has a wider upper edge with a circular cross section, which houses the pin bar. It has a central rectangular recess to house the pin, now missing. below this the brooch is waisted and then forms a sub-rectangular plate which has a raised horizontal border sitting above a horizontal rounded recess. It tapers in width and is decorated with two narrow vertical ridges running down its centre and terminating just above its foot, which is missing.
cf. Hattatt p320, number 1499 and SUR-E6DD54.
Class: Hod Hill, panel without side lugs
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 75
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 25 mm
Width: 14 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight: 2.12 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: South Kesteven (District)
Parish or ward: Normanton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SK9646
Four figure Latitude: 53.00272339
Four figure longitude: -0.57088122
1:25K map: SK9646
1:10K map: SK94NE
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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