Rights Holder: Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service
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Unique ID: SF7561
Object type certainty: Certain
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Incomplete lead brooch. It is flat and circular, 39 mm in diameter, and about half is missing. There is a border consisting of two rings of pellets, which surrounds a relief quatrefoil. Inside this is another quatrefoil, and then a central relief circle. Only one of the foils survives complete, and this has a large pellet between the central circle and the line of the inner quatrefoil. Just inside the border, in some places cutting through the outer quatrefoil, is a ring of small circular perforations. On the reverse is a transverse pin lug, now squashed flat.
The design of this brooch is ultimately based on a coin, but is not close enough to be termed a nummular; it is a Weetch type 4, cross without inscription.
Notes:
Included in Weetch 2013 as catalogue no. 329.
Sub class: Weetch type 4
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 900
Date to: AD 1000
Quantity: 1
Weight: 8.88 g
Diameter: 39 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st October 2001
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Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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