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BROOCH
Unique ID: SF7796
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
Lead nummular brooch, complete but crumpled and cracked. 31 mm in diameter, it is decorated with concentric rings of ornament. In the very centre is a relief cross with expanded arms, with a small boss in the middle. Around this is a ring of ladder pattern, and then a ring of pellets and another ring of ladder pattern. On the reverse is a transverse pin lug and a catchplate, both of similar size and both squashed nearly flat; the pin when horizontal would run along the same orientation as the central cross. The design of nummular brooches, as the name suggests, is ultimately based on coins.
Included in Weetch 2013 as catalogue no. 413, where it was allocated to Type 5 (decorated with concentric circles). It should, however, have been allocated toType 4.D (decorated with a cross with expanded arms).
Notes:
Class:
nummular
Sub class: Weetch type 4.D
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 800
Date to: Circa AD 1000
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Weight: 11.81 g
Diameter: 31 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st October 2001
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