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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy annular brooch of Anglo-Saxon/Early-Medieval date. Less than one quarter of the brooch survives intact, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. It has a flat band that is oval shaped in section and terminates at both ends in old breaks. The front face is decorated with punched dots along one, and possibly both, edges, but the back face is flat and undecorated. Both surfaces have a green patina and at one end can be seen the remains of a circular perforation where the missing pin would have hinged. It measures approximately 50mm in external diameter, 37.46mm in length, 8.33mm in width, 2.05mm in thickness, and weighs 3.53g.Annular Anglo-Saxon brooches with similar decoratvive motifs are noted in Suffolk from sites such as from Eriswell, Icklingham and Ixworth (West, 1998: nos. 30.8, 51.2, 51.4, 102.5). These indicate that this example dates to between the late-5th and 7th centuries AD.
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