Poorly Located Find Spot record MNL 961 - Saxon brooch, Forest Heath

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Summary

Small-long brooch (1909. Formerly recorded as MNL MISC

Location

Grid reference TL 67 78 (point) Poorly located
Map sheet TL67NE
Civil Parish MILDENHALL, FOREST HEATH, SUFFOLK

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Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Small-long brooch (1909.415): bronze brooch, details and photograph in (S1), 7.5cm long. Formerly Sir John Evans collection. From Mildenhall, Suffolk, 1893 (S1)(R1). Probably from MNL 001 (Warren Hill).
Girdlehanger (1927-4629): bronze girdlehanger, incomplete, 11.2cm long, 3.8cm wide. Details in S G Fenton collection, sold at Sotheby's 28 November 1927 (lot 185), associated with bucket mounts (below). Damage recent? - register records `remains of an iron ring at the nd of the shaft' and a length 1.7cm longer than at present (S1). Probably from MNL 001 (S1). Bucket Mounts (1927.4630): bronze bucket mounts including two perforated handle mount plates (S1). Associated at auction with girdlehanger (above).

Formerly recorded as MNL MISC

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <R1> (No record type): Leeds, E.T.. Leeds E, `The Distribution of the Angles and Saxons archaeologically considered', Archaeologia, 91, .
  • <S1> (No record type): MacGregor, A. & Bolick, E.. 1993. A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections: Non-ferrous Metals. MacGregor A & Bolick E, A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections, BAR (British Ser) 230, 1.

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Record last edited

May 21 2020 8:36AM

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