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BROOCH
Unique ID: KENT-CC2D83
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete Medieval high tin copper-alloy annular brooch of c. AD 1200-1400 date.
Description: The brooch is annular in plan with a circular cross section. The pin is missing and would have been rapped around the indent on the frame, both wire and sheet copper has been used in the past. The entire frame has been slightly warped. There is no decoration on the brooch frame and it is a dark grey colour.
Measurements: 22.37mm in diameter, 2.63mm thick and 2.72g in weight.
Discussion: Although easily confused with annular buckles the suggested distinguishing factor is that annular brooches have an indented point for the pin while the annular buckles have a free moving pin likely held in the correct place by the leather strap to which it is attached, Read (2001, 109) illustrates a number of examples which are dated to the c.13th-14th (Read 2001, 102).
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1200
Date to: Circa AD 1400
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 2.63 mm
Weight: 2.72 g
Diameter: 22.37 mm
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Maidstone (District)
Parish or ward: Stockbury (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ8261
Four figure Latitude: 51.31899105
Four figure longitude: 0.6103993
1:25K map: TQ8261
1:10K map: TQ86SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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