NHER 35187 (Find Spot record) - Early Saxon brooch (Norfolk, poorly located; Burnham Thorpe, poorly located)

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Summary

A great square headed brooch of East Anglian type was purchased in Germany in 1997. The exact location and circumstances of the discovery of this object are unclear. It may come from the Early Saxon cemetery at Burnham Thorpe (NHER 32340).

Protected Status/Designation

None recorded

Location

Map sheet	Not recorded
Civil Parish	NORFOLK NO PROVENANCE, -, NORFOLK
Civil Parish	BURNHAM THORPE, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

No mapped location recorded.

Full Description

The find detailed below was recovered from Norfolk but no precise discovery or locational information is available.

Before 1997. Illegal metal-detecting? [1] and [2].
Great square headed brooch of East Anglian type, purchased in Germany in 1997.
It may have come from Burnham Thorpe (NHER 32340).
See description and (S1) in file.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 28 March 2000.

See NHER 35188 for iron spearheads, shield, boss and grips,and knife.

Amended by A. Beckham (HES), 16 February 2021.

Associated Sources (2)

--- SNF8804 Secondary File: Secondary File.
<S1> SNF100977 Illustration: White, S. 1999. Drawing of an Early Saxon great square-headed brooch. Find Illustration. Paper. 2:1.

Site and Feature Types and Periods (1)

FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)

Object Types (1)

BROOCH (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)

Related NHER Records (2)

Record last edited

Feb 16 2021 12:17PM