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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy annular brooch of Anglo-Saxon/Early-Medieval date. Approximately one quarter of the brooch survives intact, the remainder missing due to old breaks. It has a flat, oval shaped band that is worn and corroded along its exterior edges and terminates at both ends in old breaks. Borders of crescentic punched decoration are visible along both edges of the front face and at the centre of the fragment is a group of incised vertical lines with a larger groove at their centre. This might plausibly have acted as a pin slot. A further incised vertical line is visible at the break at one end of the fragment indicating further groups of similar decoration running around the brooch. It measures 35.60mm in surviving length with a projected diameter of approximately 50mm, 10.28mm in width, 2.54mm in thickness, and 4.15g in weight. Similar examples of Anglo-Saxon annular brooches are noted from Suffolk by West from Eriswell and Ixworth (West, 1998: nos. 26.3, 33.3, 33.8, 102.5). This example dates to the late-5th to 7th centuries AD and possibly belongs to the same brooch as the fragment SF-1BB651.
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