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Description: | An incomplete Late Saxon lead alloy brooch of uncertain form, broken and folded with the remains of a possible catch-plate or pin-lug and another fragment contained within the fold. Moulded relief decoration on the face comprises a central pellet within a concentric circle of eight pellets. The surviving piece measures 30 x 25mm. This is a plate brooch, a type described as 'very rare indeed' in the Late Saxon period when almost all brooches were circular (Hinton 1990, 636). A lead alloy brooch of broadly similar type from Loddon (Norfolk Historic Environment Record number 21933) is shown in Rogerson and Ashley (2008), Norfolk. Archaeol. 45, 439, fig.8, no.39. Two rectangular lead alloy examples were excavated at Mill Lane, Thetford (Youngs 2004), and there is a fragment of another, also lead alloy, from Barton Bendish (NHER 17212). Brooches with concave sides, such as one excavated in Winchester (Hinton 1990, 637, fig.170 no.2009) and those recorded from Fincham (NHER 30053) and Oxborough (NHER 1021), are in a continental tradition that goes back to the eighth century. This example probably dates to the 9th-10th century.
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