Record Details
| NHER Number: | 31336 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Saxon metal find |
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Summary
Metal detecting in 1994 recovered a Late Saxon lead disc brooch, decorated with a cross in a central roundel and a pelleted border.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 04 81 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM08SW |
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| Parish: | SOUTH LOPHAM, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
1994. Metal detecting.
Late Saxon lead disc brooch with equal-armed (expanded armed) cross in central roundel, with a border of transverse ribs around it, then a pelleted border, and finally another billeted border.On reverse lug a catchplate and a relief cross.
Slide (S1) NCM, Polaroid (S2) and drawing (S3) in file.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM), 11 October 1994.
W. Milligan (NCM), 15 August 1994.
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
| --- | Photograph: 1995. LDH 17-19, Late Saxon lead disc brooch.. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Slide: Various. Slide. |
| <S2> | Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white. |
| <S3> | Illustration: Finds Illustrations. |
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