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Harford Farm brooch

Accession Number NWHCM : 1994.5.78

Description

Gold, silver and garnet composite disc brooch, the front shows a gold sheet, gold filigree, garnets in cloisons and garnets and glass in bosses, originally four satelite bosses, one remaining; the brooch had been repaired at some stage; the reverese shows a pin mechinism, interlaced animals and a runic inscription which reads: luda: giboetaesigilae; the runes have been translated as 'Luda repaired the brooch'.

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Excavations on the route of the Norwich southern bypass between 1989-91 revealed an Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Harford Farm. This was already known to be an exceptionally rich archaeological landscape. The site was just half a mile north of the Roman town of Venta Icenorum and two other Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries had previously been discovered immediately outside its walls.

Creation Date 610 AD-650 AD
Material garnet
Department Archaeology