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BROOCH
Unique ID: SF-84DBDA
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon long brooch, probably a small-long brooch. It is missing the foot due to old breaks. The headplate is flat, square in form and undecorated. At the centre of the back face is an integrally cast single semi-circular lug that holds in place the corroded remains of an iron spring. Extending from the base of the head is the integral bow. This is rectangular in form, D-shaped in section and slightly curved in profile, terminating in old breaks at its base. The entire object measures 30.53mm in length, 15.99mm in width at headplate, 8.78mm in width at bow, 3.35mm in thickness at bow, and 6.12g in weight.
This is an incomplete cast copper-alloy long brooch of Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon date. Its form suggests it is probably a small-long brooch (cf. MacGregor and Bolick, 1993: pp. 124-133) and as such would date to the late-5th to 6th centuries AD.
Class: Small-long
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 450
Date to: Circa AD 600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.53 mm
Width: 15.99 mm
Thickness: 3.35 mm
Weight: 6.12 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st March 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: St. Edmundsbury (District)
To be known as: Near Bury St Edmunds
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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