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Description: | A Middle-Late Saxon disc or "cogwheel" brooch in the form of an expanding armed cross within a circle bordered by eighteen small lobes. On the reverse, the remains of an iron pin in both the incomplete single transverse pin lug and the short transverse catchplate, suggest it was closed when the brooch was abandoned, lost or buried. It measures 32mm in diameter and dates from the 9th century.Similar examples have been found in Norfolk at Colkirk (Norfolk Historic Environment Record 37128), Fincham (NHER 33011), Gillingham (NHER 31343), Great Dunham (NHER 45424), Morton-on-the-Hill (NHER 25247), Mundham (NHER 29312), Norwich (NHER 845), Postwick (NHER 38152), Quidenham (NHER 24051), Redenhall with Harleston (NHER 31946), Rocklands (NHER 34984), Saxlingham Nethergate (NHER 13174), Tattersett (NHER 31825), Tibenham (NHER 28632) and West Acre (NHER 30821). A brooch perhaps from Icklingham (Suffolk) has been published (Hinton Ashmolean 1974, 21 cat. no.14), as has the above Norwich example (Geake, H. in Emery 2007, 193-4).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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