Record ID: JP7385
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy plate brooch with white metal on surface. Pin broken, badly damaged around the edges and the catchplate. The pin is hinged between two close set lugs. The shape seems to be circular, with scalloped edges, and projections over hinge and catchplate - but it is possible that the scallops are the remains of circular holes in a larger circular brooch such as Hattatt no.513. The centre has a rivet stub and a sunken area which would have held an applique (and the white metal is absent here) bounded bu a notched rib. On the area over the hinge there are incised lines, and here and…
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WENHASTON WITH MELLS HAMLET', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: JP7243
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy brooch fragment from a lozenge shaped equal ended type. Missing top part, bottom knob, one side knob; bent. Centre panel has two stamped circles with deeper centre dot. A small flat knob projects to the side. The lower triangular panel is slightly convex fronted and apparently undecorated, with the stub of the catchplate at the break. Slight traces of white metal. Surviving width 16mm, surviving length 16mm. Smaller than most examples of the type but similar in scale to Hattatt no. 562 although this has the common row of three circles.
Created on: Saturday 3rd November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WENHASTON WITH MELLS HAMLET', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: JP7277
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy disc brooch, Hattatt's "umbonate" type with triangular cells. Missing part of pin only. Pin hinged on two close set lugs. Above the hinge the headloopis very worn. The other projections - one small one each side and one at foot - are flat backed knobs. The centre of the disc has a dot and circle motif; around this two rows of fourteen triangles, both alternating red and blue enamel, and a deep outer channel. Length 32.5mm, disc diameter 23.5mm, height 6mm. As Hattatt no 128.
Created on: Monday 19th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.