Record Details

NHER Number:35233
Type of record:Find Spot
Name:Early Saxon brooch (Burston with Shimpling, poorly located)

Summary

An Early Saxon brooch with elaborate flat knobs and punched dots and a missing lower foot was probably recovered from Burston with Shimpling by metal detecting in the parish.

Images - none

Location

Parish:BURSTON WITH SHIMPLING, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Full description

November 1996 or earlier. Metal detecting.
Early Saxon brooch almost certainly found in Burston with Shimpling parish.
Information from [1] via [2].
See (S1) in file.
Brooch has lappets, central panel on head-plate, elaborate flat knobs and punched dots: lower foot missing.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 29 March 2000.

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>Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.

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