Record Details
| NHER Number: | 34854 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Saxon brooch |
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Summary
Metal detecting in 1998 recovered a Saxon brooch.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 21 79 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM27NW |
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| Parish: | BROCKDISH, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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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. |
Related records - none
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