File:Early-Medieval lead nummular brooch fragment (FindID 517893).jpg

English: An incomplete cast lead disc or nummular brooch of late Anglo-Saxon date. Approximately one quarter of the brooch survives intact, the remainder now missing due to old breaks. The surviving fragment is flat, with some post-depositional corrosion and was probably originally circular in form. On the back face is an integrally cast flat, rectangular catchplate, the corresponding pin lug now missing due to old breaks. The front face of the plate has moulded decoration that may be considered broadly nummular in form although now abstract from coin types proper. It comprises an uncertain central motif within a circular beaded border that is now mostly incomplete due to old breaks. This is surrounded by a band containing a series of diagonal lines that produce broadly triangular cells, the remains of four of which are still visible. One of these cells contains a group of linear motifs including a larger element that resembles a capital letter E with elongated vertical. The neighbouring complete cell is decorated with four pellets arranged in a triangle, three across the bottom and one centrall above. To either side of these complete cells are visible the remains of two further similar examples that suggest the decorative motifs alternated between cells, although this is uncertain due to the preservation of the object. At the outer edge of the plate is a double pelleted border containing a narrow band of smaller and more broadly spaced pellets between them. The entire object measures 26.16mm in surviving length, 24.05mm in width, 8.34mm in thickness (including lug; 1.81mm at plate) and 8.02g in weight.

Lead disc brooches such as this are known from Suffolk (see for example SF-408304, SF-CCF226, SF-CBDDE0, SF-88E700, SF-C76146) and elsewhere (for example LEIC-D40622, NLM5282, NLM4639 or NMS-895D26). They are termed nummular due to the fact that the decorative elements on the front face are ultimately derived from coins and often have rings of pellets, around a central 'coin' motif. In the current example this is more abstract although potentially the incomplete central motif may have originally been more coin like. The current example is likely to date to the late Early-Medieval period, probably in the 10th or 11th centuries AD.