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BROOCH

Unique ID: SF-9DE194

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

An incomplete copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon small long brooch with the head and bow surviving and the rest of the brooch missing due to old breaks now worn. It measures 38.7mm in surviving length. The head plate is cruciform with T-shaped arms, it measures 18mm in length and 21.6mm in width. Each of the T-shaped arms has a pair of parallel transverse grooves across it. The bow is facted and has a parallel pair of transverse grooves at its top and base. On the reverse of the head plate there is a complete central pin loop with corroded iron in around it, presumably the remains of an iron pin.

This small long brooch is similar in form to a more elaborate example from Haslingfield, Cambs (McGregor and Bolick 1993, 139, no 15.56).

Class: small long

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Date from: Circa AD 400
Date to: Circa AD 600

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 38.7 mm
Width: 21.6 mm
Weight: 7.88 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st November 2004

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Mid Suffolk (District)
To be known as: Palgrave

Spatial coordinates

Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Character undetermined

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
MacGregor, A. and Bolick, E.	1993	A summary catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon collections (non-ferrous metals), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford	Oxford	Tempvs Reparatum	139, 15.56

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Recording Institution: SF
Created: 19 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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