Record ID: SF-19FF21
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a very worn plate brooch of unbomate type and 2nd century in date. A fragment of the outer edge survives and the rest is missing deut to old breaks, now worn. The fragment measures 19.48mm by 11.39mm in size. Around the edge of the front face there are triangular cells filled with decayed enamel. On the back face a double pin lug survives. Both faces have active powdery green corrosive products visible.
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barking', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-2E1FE7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy Small Long brooch dating to the sixth century AD. The fragment comprises a small portion of the leg and the trapezoidal catchplate. The leg possesses a series of incised grooves and ribbed bands. The fragment measures 18mm in length and 6mm in width. It weighs 2.79g.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newmarket', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-2F9C92
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy possible buckle or brooch frame, of medieval date. Oval in shape measuring 16.74mm by 15.27mm externally and 11.41mm by 11.23mm internally. One face has three constrictions, one of which has corroded iron adhering to it. An iron pin may therefore have been attached to this constriction allowing the frame to be used as a brooch or even a buckle.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-2CAC85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy lozenge shaped plate brooch from the Roman period. The main body of the brooch is complete but the pin is missing. The brooch is lozenge shaped with a lug at each corner. The front face has a hollow central lozenge shaped boss which would have been filled with enamel as decoration. The boss is surrounded by a raised edge. The lugs have been cast integrally with the brooch and are pointed and collared. Two have the remains of the pin mechanism and the catchplate on the back. The back of the brooch is plain. This type of brooch dates from the end of the first century throug…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Last updated: Friday 22nd May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LVPL-2CD8C4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy cast reversed fantail type of Roman bow brooch. The bow of the brooch is complete and the catchplate is still present. The pin was on a spring mechanism held by a rearward hook over the chord. The hook is still present but the pin and the spring are missing. The back of the bow is flat and the front decoration is moulded. The top half of the bow is made up of two domes. The bow then widens to the lower bow which is almost lozenge shaped. The lower bow has an X on the top part. The foot knob is semi-spherical. Hatatt dated this type of brooch to the mid first century AD. A…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Last updated: Friday 22nd May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-2DF342
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy disc brooch of 'hub-cap' type, most likely to be AD 900-1100, late Anglo-Saxon in date. Very similar to examples from Wyverstone, see SF-E66913 and Mellis, see SF-7F2271. It is circular in shape and measures 20.96mm in diameter. The front face has a central circular setting containing a worn dark green glass gem. Surrounding this central setting there are seven circular indentations. The back face is flat and has a pin loop, now incomplete opposite a catchplate. No trace of the pin survives. It is fairly worn and has some patches of powdery green corrosion.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 31st October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Trimley St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-5A2B76
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy disc brooch dating to the second century AD. The brooch comprises a flat circular plate which has been divided into three cells, two outer ring shaped cells and an inner circular cell. There are remnants of degraded enamel in the ring shaped cells. It is green in the outer one and red in the inner one. On the underside of the plate are the remains of a catchplate and a semi-circular perforated pin lug with remnants of a corroded pin attached. The brooch has a diameter of 30mm.
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newmarket', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C230C4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch, depicting a sitting chicken. Missing most of pin; damaged catchplate and damaged and bent tail; hole in one enamel cell.The pin is hinged between two close set lugs below the tail. The underside of the body and neck is hollow. The head has small punched circles for eyes and triangles with a trace of blue enamel in the comb and the wattle. The enamelled cells on each side of the body consist of two crescents at the top, with traces of blue in some, and a row of triangualr shapes at the bottom, again with some blue enamel, and a larger curvilinear shape between the …
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 27th July 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wenhaston, Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-DC3B48
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy bow brooch of Colchester Derivative rearhook type dating to the Roman period, c. 43-100 AD. It survives virtually complete, with the exception of the spring/pin mechanism and the rear portion of the catchplate. The brooch demonstrates a hemi-spherically sectioned winged head with a rearward facing hook projecting from its midpoint on the reverse face of the object. Each wing is decorated with three separate sets of collars, consisting three parallel transverse ridges and concurrent grooves - which are sited at the terminal, midpoint and inner edge of ea…
Created on: Monday 23rd April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7BB2D7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilt fragment of head-plate from an Early Saxon Great Square-Headed brooch, broken and bent, comprising undecorated fragment of head-plate second panel on one side of plain frame and inner panel with running loops containing pellets (as on example from Spong Hill, Hines fig.63c) and square bosses at angles and more elaborate boss at base of undecorated central bar between two square perforations (broken across one). Broken perforated pin lugs on reverse (ancient breaks). Hines' Group XVI, see example from Ely-High Barns, plate 93(a). 6th-century.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilketshall St Andrew/Ilketshall St John', grid reference and parish protected.