Record Details
| NHER Number: | 23988 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Late Saxon disc brooch |
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Summary
Metal detecting here in 1987 recovered a Late Saxon disc brooch with Borre style decoration. The brooch showed signs of silvering or tinning and was missing its catchplate.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 16 13 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG11SE |
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| Parish: | TAVERHAM, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
August 1987. Metal detecting.
Copper-alloy disc brooch with low-relief Borre-style ornament of interlace, each arm with central groove. Some faint traces of white metal surface tinning ?/silvering?. Decoration well-preserved but casting faults have led to piercing of background in places giving partial, accidental, openwork effect. Iron stains indicate iron pin, fixed to rectangular, eared lug at right angles to it. Catch plate missing.
Photograph (S1) taken.
Information from member of the public [1].
A. Gregory (NAU) 27 August 1987.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Associated Finds
- BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Photograph: EDK 3-7. |
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