Record ID: WMID-902F02
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy Colchester derivative (double-pierced lug) brooch, of Roman dating (AD 43 to AD 100). Approximately 50% of the brooch is present, consisting of the bow, wings, head, and an incomplete catch plate. The pin and spring are missing, presumed lost in antiquity. In plan, the brooch is almost T-shaped, and D-shaped in cross section. The bow head is hump-like, and angular (comma shaped) in profile, with flat rectangular wings projecting from either side at the top. An incomplete triangular catch plate extends from the reverse of the foot of the bow. The back …
Created on: Wednesday 29th January 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 8th July 2014
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Record ID: SWYOR-E65597
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval silver annular brooch which is complete and with the pin intact. Traces of gilding evident on the brooch. The frame is circular in plan and in section. It is decorated with four evenly spaced globular collars, each of which is punched with small circular marks. The pin is cast and is circular in cross section, tapering to a point at the end. The loop round the frame is unusual because it is formed from two arms projecting from the pin, with a central break on the outside of the frame, rather than one arm which is bent round the frame leaving a small gap near the pin which i…
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wharley End', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-5567F2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
A slender plain Colchester derivative (double pierced lug) brooch with a fragment of the chord surviving. The catch plate is broken.
Created on: Sunday 27th January 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 8th July 2014
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Record ID: SUR-557F23
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large one-piece copper alloy Colchester brooch. The pin and catch plate and part of the spring are missing.
Created on: Sunday 27th January 2013
Last updated: Thursday 14th February 2013
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Record ID: SUR-CBC124
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Middle Iron Age cast copper alloy bow brooch belonging to Hawkes and Hull's Type 1a (5th to early 4th millennium BC). The bow is rounded and thickened and hollow on its lower side. The spring and pin are missing. There are traces of iron deposits and copper alloy corrosion spotting. The bow of the brooch is decorated with a cast multi-stranded double scrolling design. Hull & Hawkes (1987) Corpus of Ancient Brooches in Britain, BAR British Series 168.
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2014
Last updated: Monday 23rd June 2014
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Record ID: SUR-289510
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely corroded and incomplete copper alloy Roman brooch of Hod Hill type, dating to AD 43 - AD 75. The brooch is 37.9mm in length and complete with a catchplate. The bow has a central trapezoidal body, with two flanking knops, one of which is missing; the remaining knop is bent under the bow. At either end of the central section there are moulded collars to the hinge section and to the long tapering foot. The head, hinge and pin is missing.
Created on: Thursday 30th July 2020
Last updated: Thursday 30th July 2020
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Record ID: SUR-C21D04
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Roman brooch of Langton Down type dating to the late Iron Age or early Roman period, c. 25-60 AD. Missing the spring, pin, much of the bow, the foot and catchplate. The bow meets the hinge in a semi-circular sectioned head and tapers to the foot. The arms are cylindrical but incomplete. Extensive corrosion has obscured any original surface decoration.
Created on: Thursday 6th August 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th August 2020
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Record ID: SUR-27A9B8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman cast copper-alloy early cruciform plate brooch, of mid to late 1st century AD date, with a tinned surface and a central circular setting. The brooch is cruciform with four concave sides and tapering arms. In the centre of the plate is a recessed circular setting containing a beaded border around a pierced hole in the centre. This is surrounded by iron corrosion suggesting a separate riveted attachment which has been lost. Two of the four arms are complete, one is partially complete and one is mainly missing. Each arm tapers to a bifurcated terminal and has a centra…
Created on: Tuesday 9th February 2021
Last updated: Monday 15th February 2021
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Record ID: SUR-8C9C93
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy brooch, Colchester one-piece type, complete with part of the spring. The bow is narrow with a rounded cross-section and appears undecorated. The catchplate is mostly lost. Circa 1st century AD.
Created on: Friday 26th February 2021
Last updated: Friday 26th February 2021
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Record ID: SUR-CECDC1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman Colchester derivative dolphin bow brooch dating to c.AD 50-120. The brooch has sub-cylindrical wings that are decorated with circumferential grooves at the terminal ends and grooves along both long sides in imitation of a spring. The bow has a plano convex cross section and a moulded ridged spine. The junction at the head is sharply angled and decorated with a moulded groove. The foot, pin and catchplate are missing.
Created on: Tuesday 25th May 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 25th May 2021
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Record ID: SUR-F32F52
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman plate brooch (Mackreth (2011), Chapter 7, Part 2 PL CONT 17a.) comprised of two (or more) flat discs. one complete and one largely lost, which are joined at a point on their periphery. Each disc has raised borders with tinned surfaces surrounding a recessed central field, which on the surviving disc appears to have held enamel around a hole in the centre for a separate component, now lost. The reverse of the complete disc retains a small catchplate. The alloy has a high tin content.
Created on: Friday 2nd July 2021
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: SUR-23E6E5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very corroded cast copper alloy pin probably from a brooch of the hinged pin type. The head is circular, flattened and presumably pierced. The nature of the remains of the head of the brooch is unclear.
Created on: Tuesday 13th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 10th June 2014
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Record ID: SUR-8AE3BD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Roman copper alloy headstud brooch (cf. Mackreth 2011, Headstud 5.b Plate 73; Hattatt (2000) fig 191 numbers 36 and 37) dating to c. AD 50-150. The head has a pair of short flat wings to either side, each decorated with four transverse grooves, underneath which are the cylindrical mounts for the axis bar and pin, part of which is retained. At the front of the bow is a loop, now broken. The bow is strongly curved with an integrally cast boss decorated with a ring and dot, behind which extends a panel of recessed rectangular cells which may have been enamelled . The foot …
Created on: Thursday 3rd December 2020
Last updated: Thursday 3rd December 2020
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Record ID: SUR-2F789B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman copper alloy brooch of Colchester one-piece type, 48mm in length. The bow is narrow with a sub-rounded cross-section 2.9mm thick; the head has two short and flat wings decorated with moulded ridges. The spring and pin are integrally cast and are bent, but remain in place. The catchplate is openwork with two pierced holes and a decorative border of punched crescents on both sides. Circa 1st century AD.
Created on: Monday 4th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 4th January 2021
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Record ID: SUR-30FAEA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Roman brooch of Hod Hill type (Cf. Mackreth 2011, Chapter 6, Part 2 Hod Hill 4.a.2, Plate 92), dating to AD 43 - AD 75. The brooch is 43.2mm in length and has traces of a tinned surface. The upper portion of the bow has a rectangular plate, with a raised spine decorated with two rows of offset punched dots. There are a flanking pair of pointed knops at the midpoint of the bow, of which one remains. Below this is a moulded double ridged collar and a lozengiform plate which tapers to a small knopped terminal with a collar of transverse ridges. On the underside…
Created on: Monday 4th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 20th January 2021
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Record ID: SUR-37C812
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Roman brooch of Colchester derivative Harlow type missing its pin. The head has two pierced lugs and small flat wings covering a coiled spring and an iron axis bar which runs through the lower pierced lug. The upper lug holds the spring chord. The spring is held asymmetrically on the head, with two coils on the left side and three coils with the pin on the other of the central lug. The bow is curved and narrow, with triangular cross section, ending in a point foot and an incomplete catch plate. Circa 50-70 AD.
Created on: Thursday 18th March 2021
Last updated: Friday 27th October 2023
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Record ID: SUR-F372D5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bent and incomplete Roman or early medieval copper alloy penannular brooch. The frame has a sub rounded cross section, 36mm in diameter which has been bent straight, opening the ring. One terminal is lost, the other remains and folds back on itself at right angles to the plane of the ring, forming what may be interpreted as zoomorphic horse heads, with stylised moulded features. The terminal is 6.1mm thick and 11.2mm long. The pin has been lost.
Created on: Friday 2nd July 2021
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
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Record ID: SOM-65C355
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Alcester type trumpet derivative brooch of Roman date. The slightly distorted brooch measures 48.7mm by 19.1mm by 16.6mm and weighs 19.4g. It has a large trumpet-shaped head with a loop at the apex and a recess on the back for the seven-coiled spring. The pin is missing. A domed moulding projects from the middle of the bow and overhangs the rest of the bow, which is flat and narrow. This section expands slightly towards its end and terminates with a rounded knop which has a smaller knop projecting from it. Little of the catchplate survives. It has been suggested tha…
Created on: Tuesday 11th March 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haversham Cum Little Linford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: RAH1169
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
lower part of bow, catchplate & foot
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BUCKINGHAMSHIRE CLIFTON REYNES', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: RAH1279
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch foot with ring & dot decoration
Created on: Wednesday 5th April 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BUCKINGHAMSHIRE CLIFTON REYNES', grid reference and parish protected.