BROOCH
Unique ID: SF7253
Fragment of foot from a small-long brooch. At the old and worn break it is just 6 mm wide, and flat and undecorated with a worn catchplate on the reverse. At the bottom of the catchplate, the front has a raised square panel with a transverse groove across the centre. Below this the foot is again flat, and curves outwards to form a flared terminal. The sides have concave curves decorated with punched circles; the base has a convex curve 19 mm wide, and the edge is perhaps a little fragmentary with no decoration surviving. Early Anglo-Saxon, fifth or sixth century.
Class: small long
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Date from: AD 410
Date to: AD 600
Dimensions and weight
Length: 29 mm
Width: 19 mm
Weight: 3.56 g
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st September 2001
Personal details
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Recorded by: Dr Helen
Geake
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Identified by: Dr Helen
Geake - [view all attributed records]
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Completeness: Fragment [scope notes | view all attributed records]
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Spatial metadata
Region: East
County: Suffolk
District: Suffolk Coastal
To be known as: SUFFOLK BROMESWELL
Spatial coordinates
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Discovery metadata
Method of discovery: Metal detector [scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land[scope notes]
Specific landuse: Character undetermined[scope notes]
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Created:
Monday 29th October 2001
Updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
