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BROOCH

Unique ID: NMS155

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

AE fan-headed or ‘radiate’-headed trumpet brooch, broken flat semi-circular fan-shaped plate with four tiny lobes (remains of chain loop). Part of bow broken immediately below acanthus button. Plate hollowed out into bow, the hollow is flanked by twin pierced lugs for pin and spring. Similar to (with the exception of the arrangement for pin and spring) an example in Hattatt (1987 fig.45, no.968), which was found in East Anglia. The mixture of flat plate and acanthus button is described as being strange and un-paralleled. 2nd century.

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Class: Trumpet
Sub class: fan-headed or 'radiate'

Chronology

Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 100
Date to: Circa AD 200

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st January 2001

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Other reference numbers

SMR reference number: 25796

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District)
To be known as: NORFOLK SNETTISHAM

Spatial coordinates

Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Operations to a depth greater than 0.25m

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Hattatt, R.	1987	Brooches of Antiquity: a third selection of brooches from the author's collection	Oxford	Oxbow Books

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Recording Institution: NMS
Created: 23 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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