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BROOCH
Unique ID: SF-88E700
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete lead late Anglo-Saxon disc brooch, circa 900-1100AD, with its pin missing. This brooch is likely to be a nummular brooch and the design ultimately derived from a coin but it is now abstract. It measures 30.1mm in diameter and 3.31mm in thickness. Its front face is decorated with two concentric rings with circular pellets along these at more or less even intervals. within the inner circle there are two lozenge shapes, one inside the other, there is a circular pellet at each corner of the lozenge shapes. Within the inner lozenge shape there is a worn possible cross with a possible circular pellet in each quadrant. On the back face the integral pin loop, with a vertical hole and catch plate survive, opposite each other. No parallel could be found for the decorative design on this lead disc brooch.
Notes:
Included in Weetch 2013 as catalogue no. 361.
Sub class: Weetch type 4
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 900
Date to: Circa AD 1100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 22.1 g
Diameter: 30.1 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st March 2006
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Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: Renham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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