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BROOCH
Unique ID: NMS-1090CD
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Fragment of copper alloy early Saxon brooch with extensive chip carved ornament. The lower part of the rectangular headplate survives with the corroded remnants of the spring and upper pin extant on the reverse. The majority of the bow also prevails terminating in a transverse break across its lower end. One side of the headplate also survives as a separate fragment found elsewhere in the same field. The style and decoration fits best with Hines Group XXI hybrid square headed florid cruciform type, with a small raised rectangular decorated plinth on the headplate and a central circular decorated bow disc. Ref Hines, J., 1997 A New Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Great Square-Headed Brooches Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, 153-156. There are scant remnants of gilding over much of the surface. Hines cites only four other examples of this brooch type all of which have a distribution outside of Norfolk in the East Midlands. Circa 525-560 AD.
Class:
great square headed
Sub class: Hines group XXI
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 525
Date to: Circa AD 560
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 55 mm
Width: 43 mm
Weight: 43.5 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 10th October 2017 - Tuesday 10th October 2017
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 56989
Other reference: SET102017
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Fragment
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: South Norfolk (District)
Parish or ward: Wreningham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TM1699
Four figure Latitude: 52.54597673
Four figure longitude: 1.18416659
1:25K map: TM1699
1:10K map: TM19NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hines, J. | 1997 | A New Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Great Square-Headed Brooches | Woodbridge | The Boydell Press | 153-156 |
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