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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy annular brooch of Anglo-Saxon/Early-Medieval date. Approximately one half of the brooch survives intact, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. It has a flat band that is D-shaped shaped in section with flat back and rounded front face, and terminates at both ends in old breaks. The front face is decorated with punched crescents along both edges that are separated at the middle of the fragment by a series of four parallel transverse grooves. At one end are two additional transverse grooves and an incomplete circular perforation where the missing pin would have hinged. The opposite end has similar transverse grooves, one of which is broader than the others and probably served as a pin rest. The back face is flat and undecorated. It measures approximately 40mm in external diameter, 39.73mm in length, 6.94mm in width, 3mm in thickness, and weighs 5.57g.Annular Anglo-Saxon brooches with similar decoratvive motifs are noted in Suffolk from sites such as Ixworth (West, 1998: no. 102.5). This indicates that the current example dates to between the late-5th and 7th centuries AD.
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