Record Details
| NHER Number: | 35795 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Early Saxon brooch |
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Summary
Metal detecting in 2000 recovered an Early Saxon cruciform brooch.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TL 80 94 |
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| Map Sheet: | TL89SW |
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| Parish: | MUNDFORD, BRECKLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Before 25 September 2000. Metal detecting.
Early Saxon lower bow and foot of cruciform brooch. Side facets and double transverse grooves at base of bow and again at top of foot, then zone with chamfered sides above transverse ridge moulding between double grooves. Double grooved eye-brows, low (worn) eyes outlined by grooves which form remarkably eye-like ovoid shapes, median arris down snout and between nostrils. Break at bow is old as is that to the incomplete catch-plate. Three pin-hole casting flaws next to catchplate.
(S1) , (S2).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 24 November 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
| --- | Photograph: 2000. KSF 12, Early Saxon lower bow and foot of cruciform brooch.. |
| <S1> | Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph. |
| <S2> | 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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