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BROOCH
Unique ID: SF-5081B5
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon disc brooch. Worn and bent the brooch is circular with part of the edge missing due to old breaks. It is flat and measures 27.35mm in diameter. The front face is decorated with two concentric rings of pellets around a slightly domed central circle. On the back face there is an integral pin lug and small catchplate. This brooch could be a nummular brooch, although examples are more normally made from lead. Nummular brooches are so called as they are ultimately derived from coins and usually have rings of pellets, as this example does, around a central 'coin' motif. They date to the 9th and 10th centuries.
Notes:
Included in Weetch 2013 as catalogue no. 405.
Sub class: Weetch type 5
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 800
Date to: Circa AD 1000
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 3.12 g
Diameter: 27.35 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st April 2006
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: St. Edmundsbury (District)
To be known as: Little Saxham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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