Record ID: NARC-F5254E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Small Long Brooch of Early Medieval date (AD 500-600). The object is composed of a small square plate, with notches removed from the lower corners. The plate is decorated on the upper face with punched ring a dot motifs, in two rows of three, across the upper and lower portions of the plate. On the reverse of the brooch there is a vertical integral lug with a central circular perforation. Protruding from the lower edge of the headplate is an integral bow, which is convex on the outer face, concave on the reverse and D shaped in section. The bow has moulding on t…
Created on: Wednesday 28th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
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Record ID: BUC-CF5FC7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Roman bow brooch, dating from c. 1st to 2nd Century AD. At the head of the brooch there are two circular wings, in the centre of this is a semi circular notch where the pin would have attached. Around the notch on the top of the head is moulded decoration. There is a raised V shape with five impressed pellets inside. Beside this on either side is a raised semi circular pattern, which is decorated with a repeated rope motif. There is an incised collar on either end of the wings. Running along the top of the bow is a raised rope motif border. Running down the c…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
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Record ID: BUC-CF0165
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An fragment of a Roman copper alloy disc brooch, dating from the 2nd century AD. The fragment is circular, and slightly domed on the face. There is a raised central ring, with a possible second raised ring round the worn and broken edge. Contained between the two rings are traces of ultramarine blue enamel. The rest of the recesses are a light brown colour. The reverse is undecorated and concave, with a circular indentation in the centre. The edges are broken and worn. There are no traces of the original attachments of the brooch.  The surface is very worn, and it has a ligh…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
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Record ID: BUC-49FBCA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy medieval annular brooch, dating from c. AD 1350- 1400. The brooch is a flat circular hoop, with eight globular projections regularly spaced on the face of the brooch. The frame narrows between two of the projections, where the pin would have sat. This is now missing. On the opposite edge of the narrow section is a circular recess. The reverse is undecorated, and there are patches of white metal coating. The brooch has a light green patina, and measures 40.1mm by 39.5mm, 5.9mm in maximum thickness, and weighs 13.38g.
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th December 2023
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Record ID: NARC-262C6B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy brooch of Roman date (AD 130-360). The object is a Colchester derivative, Polden Hill type, of Mackreth 2011, Chapter 3, Part 3. Group 4i. The object is composed of semi-cylindrical wings with outer raised collared ended with a retained rear-hook at the top of the head. The spring and axis bar are partially retained within the right-hand wing, and pin are missing. The bowhead is hump-like in profile. The body tapers to an abraded break. From the rear of the foot a short section of the catchplate is retained. Polden Hill (Mackreth 2011, Part 3,…
Created on: Tuesday 7th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 14th February 2023
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Record ID: BUC-40145D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, copper alloy, Roman, Colchester bow brooch AD.40-100. The object comprises the head and bow of the brooch, the spring and catch plate being lost. The brooch is heavily corroded. 
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th May 2023
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Record ID: BUC-48F24C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy Iron Age brooch, dating to the 1st Century BC to the 1st Century AD. The fragment consists of the head of the brooch, one of the loops of the spring is still attached on the reverse, this ends in a worn break. On the front of the brooch is the remains of incised decoration, this is sub triangular in shape. The bow ends in a worn break. There is no decoration on the reverse. The brooch is very worn, and has a mid green patina. It measures 18mm in length, 9.2mm in width, and weighs 0.9g. Similar brooches can be seen in Hattatt 2012, page 290.
Created on: Monday 11th October 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 13th October 2021
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Record ID: NARC-47DDB6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Plate Brooch of Roman date (AD 80-250). The object is composed of an oval plate which is flat with rounded edges. The upper surface is divided into two zones by a flat oval ridge in the centre and another thinner ridge around the outer rim. Both the central and outer cells are devoid of enamel. The back of the plate retains a projecting semi-circular attachment lug with a circular perforation which projects from the upper edge at 90 degrees to the plate. From the lower edge a thin longitudinal projection is retained which would have formed a recurved ca…
Created on: Wednesday 29th September 2021
Last updated: Friday 8th October 2021
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Record ID: BUC-1E521E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman copper alloy Colchester or Polden Hill type brooch dating to c. 1st century AD. The fragment consists of the head of the brooch, with the wings still in situ, these were C shaped in cross section. The bow of the brooch curves downwards from the head of the brooch, it is T shaped in cross section with a central ridge. The ridge becomes higher at the head of the brooch, with a ridge in the centre. At the top is a circular attachment loop. On the reverse the spring would have been held inside the wings, this is now missing. The bow narrows and curves slightly, befo…
Created on: Monday 27th September 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 13th October 2021
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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: 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-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-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: BUC-F2BD87
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete early medieval copper alloy great square headed brooch, dating to the later 5th to 6th century AD. The front of the brooch is gilded, with patches of the green copper alloy showing through in places. The headplate of the brooch is rectangular in shape. It is divided into three sections by a series of borders. The central inner panel is made of two rectangular shapes, surrounded by a raised solid border. Inside the two rectangles there is irregular moulded decoration. The next section is decorated with a border of double lined triangles running around the central s…
Created on: Monday 15th March 2021
Last updated: Monday 11th October 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-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-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-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: BUC-36D40C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Early-Medieval cast copper-alloy Ansate (bow) brooch of Weetch Type II Aii (Thörle Gr.II A 1b) or Weetch Type II B (Thörle Gr. II E), dating to c.AD 700-1000. The fragment consists of one circular terminal of the brooch, with a curved catchplate on the reverse. The terminal is decorated with a central dot within a double ring circumvented by a boarder of dots. A very small portion of the bow survives; it is rectangular in cross-section and projects up from the plate at approximately 110° angle. Broadly comparable to: NMS-2F75FB, BUC-C5BC2E, LEIC-F16A00,…
Created on: Thursday 17th September 2020
Last updated: Thursday 13th May 2021
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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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