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BROOCH
Unique ID: SF-B596F5
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A copper-alloy Viking age disc brooch with Borre-style decoration, identified from a colour photograph. This brooch is decorated with a relief pattern with a raised central lozenge with a sunken circle in the middle. Although worn it is likely that the corners of the lozenge are expanded to form double stranded interlace in the form of loose knots, each double strand ending with a rounded terminal. On the reverse there is a probable catchplate.
This is most likely to be a 10th century English variant of a Scandinavian brooch type, it is a fusion of interlace style ultimately derived from Scandinavia combined with the Anglo-Saxon flat disc brooch shape. Similar examples are known from elsewhere in Suffolk from Freckenham (see SF-5708), Glemsford (see SF-9203) and Hemmingstone (see SF-66D362).
Class: East Anglian series
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 900
Date to: Circa AD 1000
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st January 2005
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