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Description: | An incomplete and damaged lead alloy late Anglo-Saxon nummular brooch, two adjoining parts of which survive. Both of these are bent and distored and will be discussed together. The brooch would have originally have been circular in shape and now measures circa 36mm in diameter, the original diameter is likely to have been larger as the surviving edges of the brooch are now bent backwards, reducing its present diameter. The front face is decorated with five concentric rings of pellets around a central 'coin' motif, this motif is now unclear, it is circular in outline and may have had a cross within it originally, or alternatively have been an abstract design. On the back face a integral lead alloy loop survives with a fragment of corroded iron within it. This is likely to have been the pin loop and the corroded iron the remains of an iron pin. Nummular brooch are ultimately derived from coins, hence their name and similar nummular brooches have been discovered elsewhere in Suffolk at Ingham (see SF-6880) and Somerton (see SF-7796), they date to the 9th or 10th century.
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