Record Details
NHER Number: | 32004 |
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Type of record: | Find Spot |
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Name: | Middle Saxon brooch |
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Summary
Metal detecting in 1995 recovered a Middle Saxon enamelled disc brooch with cruciform motif. It would once have been covered with champleve enamel but the lug and catchplate survive on the reverse.
Images - none
Location
Grid Reference: | TL 87 83 |
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Map Sheet: | TL88SE |
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Parish: | THETFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
12 November 1995. Metal detector find at [1].
Middle Saxon enamelled disc brooch with cruciform motif, incurved arms, spandrels are pelta-shaped, would have been champleve enamel (fields are sunken) lug and catchplate on reverse.
Photocopy of Polaroid (S1) in file.
Identified by S. Margeson (NCM), 8 December 1995.
W. Milligan (NCM), 11 November 1995.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
Associated Finds
- BROOCH (Middle Saxon - 651 AD to 850 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
--- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
<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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