NMS-40A306: Early Medieval ansate brooch

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BROOCH

Unique ID: NMS-40A306

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Middle or late Anglo-Saxon ansate brooch with flat rounded terminals, one incomplete, both decorated with engraved lines forming no coherent pattern. D-section bow, double pin lug enclosing remains of iron spring. Short (3mm) catchplate. Surviving length 34mm, width 10mm.

This brooch is of Weetch's type II.Aiii, with disc-shaped terminals with geometric decoration. Weetch dates the type to the 8th to 10th centuries (2013, 144).

Notes:

Included in Weetch 2013 as catalogue no. 1094.

Class: ansate
Sub class: Weetch type II.Aiii

Chronology

Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 700
Date to: Circa AD 1000

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 34 mm
Width: 10 mm

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st April 2005 - Tuesday 31st May 2005

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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: Grimston

Spatial coordinates

Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

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