Record Details
| NHER Number: | 34357 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Late Saxon brooch |
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Summary
Metal detecting recovered two arms of an Anglo-Scandinavian late 9th or early 10th century copper alloy brooch.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 88 07 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF80NE |
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| Parish: | HOLME HALE, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
January/ February 1999. Metal detecting.
Two arms from a bronze trefoil brooch, with grooved geomtetric decoration. In the centre is a reserved triangle with three grooves around; then in each arm is a double-grooved border with paired oblique nicks, forming a king of christmas tree motif within. The breaks are old and the brooch is corroded. On the reverse arm has a broken transverse pin bar lug: the other has a catch plate. Anglo-Scandinavian. Late 9th century /early 10th century. See (S1).
Identified by H. Geake (NCM).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 12 April 1999.
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
| <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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