Rights Holder: Suffolk County Council
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Unique ID: SF-3E2309
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete copper alloy early medieval small long brooch. It has a broad, rectangular head plate, the outer face of which is decorated with a faint line of punched semi-circles around the outer edge. To the reverse is a rectangular lug with a circular hole holding traces of iron corrosion. The bow is short and very simple. The lower section of the brooch is missing, but it survives in otherwise good condition with a shiny patina.
A very similar example has been excavated at Lakenheath, Suffolk (West 1998, 226, fig.108, no.8). With its simple head plate the brooch fits best within Penn and Brugmann's (2007) Type sm1, which belongs to their Phase FA1 - c.AD 450-80.
Length: 42.55mm, width: 27.48mm, thickness: 10.80mm, weight: 11.06g
Class: Small-long
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 450
Date to: Circa AD 480
Quantity: 1
Length: 42.55 mm
Width: 27.48 mm
Thickness: 10.8 mm
Weight: 11.06 g
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st May 2015
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Penn, K. and Brugmann, B. | 2007 | Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Inhumation Burial: Morning Thorpe, Spong Hill, Bergh Apton and Westgarth Gardens | Gressenhall | Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | fig.6 | ||
West, S.E. | 1998 | A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon material from Suffolk | Ipswich | Suffolk County Council | 226 | fig.108, no.8 |