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BROOCH
Unique ID: KENT-492C3F
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Iron Age La Tene III style (Nauheim derivative) brooch dating to the first century AD.
Description: The brooch is of one piece construction consisting of the hinge, bow and part of the catch plate. At one end this is twisted to form a bilateral spring of four turns and an internal chord. Only the left two coils remain with the pin and right coils missing. This extends to the circular cross-sectioned bow and, beneath this, a flattened sub-trapezoidal shaped catch plate, which remains intact. The outer (left) side of the catch plate has an incised circle with an upright incised line to the left of it. The entire object has a light grey-brown colour.
Measurements: 43.75mm in length, 8.19mm wide, 11.23mm high and 2.87g in weight.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: IRON AGE
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 20
Date to: Circa AD 100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 43.75 mm
Height: 11.23 mm
Width: 8.19 mm
Weight: 2.87 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Geometric
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Incised or engraved or chased
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Maidstone (District)
Parish or ward: Lenham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ9051
Four figure Latitude: 51.22656114
Four figure longitude: 0.7197557
1:25K map: TQ9051
1:10K map: TQ95SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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