Record Details

NHER Number:35187
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Early Saxon brooch (Norfolk, poorly located; Burnham Thorpe, poorly located)

Summary

A great square headed brooch of East Anglian type was purchased in Germany in 1997. The exact location and circumstances of the discovery of this object are unclear. It may come from the Early Saxon cemetery at Burnham Thorpe (NHER 32340).

Images - none

Location

Parish:BURNHAM THORPE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK
NORFOLK NO PROVENANCE, -, NORFOLK

Full description

The find detailed below was recovered from Norfolk but no precise discovery or locational information is available.

Before 1997. Illegal metal-detecting? [1] and [2].
Great square headed brooch of East Anglian type, purchased in Germany in 1997.
It may have come from Burnham Thorpe (NHER 32340).
See description and (S1) in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 28 March 2000.

See NHER 35188 for iron spearheads, shield, boss and grips,and knife.

Amended by A. Beckham (HES), 16 February 2021.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)

Associated Finds

  • BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

---Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1>Illustration: White, S. 1999. Drawing of an Early Saxon great square-headed brooch. Find Illustration. Paper. 2:1.

Related records

32340Part of: Early Saxon inhumation cemetery (Monument)
35188Related to: Early Saxon grave goods (Find Spot)
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