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Description: | Middle to Late Anglo-Saxon cast copper-alloy disc brooch dating to circa 8th - 10th century AD (Evison 1977; Hattatt 1987, 315) The front of the circular disc plate is decorated with a narrow raised border from which the outlines of four circles project at regular intervals. This leaves the remaining part of the central field as a Anglian cross motif. The depressed areas of the cross and circles may have held enamel (c.f. example from Great Saxham in Evison 1977) but no traces are now visible. The reverse is plain except for a damaged catch. This consisted of two parallel projecting lugs one of which is now missing. The surviving lug was perforated and is now damaged. Both breaks are abraded. The surface of the brooch is pale green with patches of grey brown on the reverse and in the depressions. The disc is 23mm in diameter and 2mm in thickmess. Including the remains of the catch the brooch is 5.5mm thick. It weighs 4.1g.There are a number of close parallels from eastern England including examples from Threxton, Hilgay and Castle Acres in Norfolk (Atkin 1978, 134) and Great Saxham in Suffolk (Evison 1977). See also, for example, NMS-ED9EF1 and NMS-8B7666.
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