Record Details

NHER Number:34854
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Saxon brooch

Summary

Metal detecting in 1998 recovered a Saxon brooch.

Images - none

Location

Grid Reference:TM 21 79
Map Sheet:TM27NW
Parish:BROCKDISH, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

February-March 1998. Metal detecting.
Identified by H.M. Geake (NCM).
Disc brooch with slightly worn motif of a backwards looking animal within a border of radial nicks.
The animal has 4 three toed legs, a nicked mane, a thick tail pointing upwards and open jaws. Any eye has worn away.
On the reverse is a broken transverse pin lug and the remains of a catchplate.
Middle Saxon or Late Saxon, probably 9th century. (S1).
A. Rogerson (NLA) 17 July 1999.

Monument Types

  • FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon to Late Saxon - 651 AD to 1065 AD)

Associated Finds

  • PLATE BROOCH (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
  • PLATE BROOCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)

Protected Status - none

Sources and further reading

<S1>Photograph: NCC Find Identification and Recording Service. c. 1975-2000. HES Find Polaroid Collection. HES Find Polaroid Collection. polaroid. black and white.

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