Experts at the British Museum say the brooch is of "national significance" ©Norfolk County Council
Posted on 05/31/2020 7:42:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The late 9th Century silver disc was discovered in a field in Great Dunham, Norfolk, which had recently been landscaped.
It is not known where the soil came from, but experts say the find is similar to the nearby Pentney Hoard...
The brooch was found by an inexperienced detectorist on 9 May 2019, on just his third day detecting.
He initially thought the piece was Victorian, but when archaeologists at Norfolk County Council were alerted they visited the scene to excavate further.
During the dig, the team found a 19th Century plough buried beneath the level of the Saxon brooch, suggesting the brooch had been deposited from elsewhere.
The landowner said he had dumped topsoil on the field to level it, but did not know where the delivery had come from...
Mr Ashley said the "remarkable" piece had similarities to the Pentney Hoard, a find of six disc brooches in 1978 in West Norfolk.
"It looks to me that they were made by the same craftsman or in the same workshop," he added...
He said the brooch was likely to have belonged to someone of "relatively high status" because of its high silver content.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Experts at the British Museum say the brooch is of "national significance" ©Norfolk County Council
The design features stacked pots, similar to the Pentney brooches, and animals in the Trewhiddle style ©Norfolk County Council
Nice
That is an intricate item for that time.
Quite attractive.
At first I was impressed because I thought they found a 9th century Saxon disk in Norfolk, Virginia. Then I realized they meant the OTHER Norfolk. Ho-hum...
Looks like an Irish piece to me. 8>)
;^)
I’ve seen the brooch on The History blog. It is just amazingly beautiful. I could never get tired of looking at it.
Very strange critters doing odd things in the carved relief.
Very strange critters doing odd things in the carved relief.
It’s beautiful in its simplicity.
Almost soothing to look at.... make sense?
Hannigan invited some Saxons to a Hooley, and they wouldn't leave without something.
That sounds cool. I want to be a detectorist, but an experienced one.
The caption sez it's
Trewhiddle style.
There's a term for everything.
Fascinating. I follow the Thames mudlark group and well-known mudlarkers on Facebook. Virtually every day people are finding Roman pottery, medieval jewelry and more. They had talked about this find too, as detectorists and searchers in the US, Australia and New Zealand also find things.
I only visited the Thames shore once, in March, but can’t wait to go back. In my few minutes there, I only found part of a 19th century pottery jar and Roman roof files (and possibly medieval tiles too). They find everything there from preRoman stuff to WWII shrapnel and Hindu river offerings.
Nice. The Romans built a lot of stuff out of pottery, prefabbed for the construction sites.
So the guy who found it does not get mentioned by name. The Government took it. And the guy that found it probably won’t even get a new battery for his metal detector.
Aw, how sad.
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