Record ID: WILT-126374
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy annular brooch, missing the tip of its pin. It is 36.4x35mm in diameter (internal hole 25mm diameter), D-shaped in section and flat on the underside. The pin is flat in section. The curved part of the brooch has been drilled with holes 2mm in diameter, one then a pair all the way around so the brooch is symmetrical along the pin line. There is a slight distance of undrilled brooch either side of the constriction for the pin. Egan and Pritchard, 1991, comment that drilled decoration on brooches does not necessarily suggest collets for stones or enamel…
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-11D917
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman brooch fragment. Length 23mm, width 16mm. Rest of the bow, the hinge and the pin are missing. Decorated with a rib at each edge and a central rib. Closest to Hod Hill series, appearing from the Roman conquest to around 70AD.
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DEV-117DC3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy lozenge-shaped brooch with blue enamelling, probably Roman 2nd Century. The pin is missing, but the hinge and catch plate are intact. The front of the brooch is decorated with blue enamel. At the centre of the brooch, within a circle is a bird motif, legs crouching to the left, head looking back over its body to the right, and with wings in a half raised position. At the neck of the bird are three small holes, presumably where stones, or a different coloured enamel, was set. There is also a small hole for the bird's eye. To the left of the bird's feet is a small elongated …
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Friday 18th March 2011
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Record ID: NLM-0E7587
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a cast copper alloy Early Medieval Small-Long Brooch. The brooch is broken midway down the bow and only middle part of the brooch survives. The arched bow is carinated at the front, convex behind and the corners are faceted. The foot originates in a flat field with a band of moulding at the top and bottom and the foot terminal is missing. Behind the foot is a complete catchplate with a length of 11.5mm and a width of 2.4mm. The surviving length of the brooch is 29.0mm, the width is 7.0mm and the weight is 3.06g.
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NLM-0E5D54
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A foot fragment from a cast copper alloy Early Medieval Anglo Saxon Small-Long Brooch. The brooch is broken above the moulded collar with three transverse lines and expands below the band to a sub-triangular foot. The foot is decorated with two vertical lines of punched dots and two transverse grooves midway down. On the back of the foot is a complete catchplate. The surviving length is 25.0mm, the maximum width is 11.2mm and the weight is 6.63g.
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-0E4458
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn knob fragment from a cast copper alloy Early Medieval Cruciform Brooch. The knob is semi-circular in section and domed in outline with a moulded collar of two grooves. The length is 15.3mm, the width is 12.9mm, the thickness is 9.4mm and the weight is 6.94g.
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SUSS-0E1312
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy 1st century AD, Polden Hill variant type brooch. The brooch has a spring mechanism, held in place by an external chord but the chord is now missing. The spring is heavily corroded. The head proper of the brooch comprises the short wings, which the spring sits behind. Each wing has been decorated with a vertical groove. The bow is long and tapering. The head is very prominent. The bow terminates with a rounded foot which is undecorated. Behind the foot are the remains of a broken catchplate. Running up from the catchplate, up the reverse of the bow th…
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coggeshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-0DC9B2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: City of Peterborough
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy 'Eye' type brooch dating to the first century AD. The brooch possesses flat triangular wings, an overhead hook and three turns of its integral spring mechanism. The bow is D shaped in section and arched. It is separated from the foot by a horizontal rib. The foot is flat and tongue shaped with the trapezoidal catchplate extending the full length. It measures 43mm in length and a has a maximum width of 15mm.
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WAW-0D8834
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Trumpet brooch. The bow head is a sub-oval in plan, with heavily abraded edges. The bow head is decorated with a ‘^’ sectioned horizontal ridge. The reverse of the bow head is hollow. The hinge or spring and pin are missing. The bow head tapers into the bow before forming a moulded acanthus. The acanthus is composed of a sub-lozenge above and below a horizontal integral disc. The lower portion of the brooch is missing, and this break is possibly recent. The brooch is curved in profile. The surface of the brooch is abraded and corroded. It measures 29…
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 17th February 2016
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Record ID: SF-0D4FE0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch knob. A copper alloy detachable side knob from an Early Medieval brooch, probably from a cruciform brooch. It is a full round knob,with a knop, and a hole running through the centre (blocked by corrosion) for the pin bar . The knob has moulded decoration, of a single groove at the base of the head, a plain central panel, and three more grooves around the collar. The knob measures 16.78mm in length, 9.08mm in width and weighs 5.33g. There are traces of a white metal coating on the knob.
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Cornard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-0D3AA0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch knob, copper alloy. It is a full round knob, with a hole running through the centre for the pin bar (missing). The knob has moulded decoration, of a single groove at the base of the head, and another around the collar. The knob measures 13.04mm in length, 10.15mm in width and weighs 4.84g.
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Cornard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-0C9223
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper Roman brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth Group 4, flat wing ends type, West Midlands), Mackreth 2011, 4.l. Plate 48. The wings are semi-cylindrical with wing caps. The wings and wing caps are heavily abraded and incomplete. The axis bar, spring and pin are all missing. At the junction of the upper edge of the wings and lower edge of the bow head there is an incomplete hook which originally held the horizontal bar of the spring in place. The bow head is hump-like in profile, tapers to the bow on both sides a moulding is present at the junction between …
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2017
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Record ID: NLM-0C0968
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman T-shape brooch. The tubular wings are decorated with a groove at each tip and conceal an iron axis bar with a slot in the centre exposes two turns of a copper alloy spring mechanism with a fragment of the pin. The incomplete tapering bow is triangular in section with a central vertical ridge and is broken at the foot. The surviving length is 19.6mm, the width is 24.9mm and the weight is 4.12g.
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-0BFCA4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman T-shape brooch. The worn tubular wings have a slot in the centre which exposes a two turns of a copper alloy spring mechanism but the pin is missing. The bow is rectangular in section and tapers to a pointed foot. The decoration on the bow is very worn though it possibly has a central vertical decorated panel with a groove on either side. The length is 23.3mm, the width is 23.2mm and the weight is 5.13g.
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-0BDCB7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible incomplete cast copper alloy Roman Bow and Fantail Brooch. Behind the rectangular head with angular wings is a semi-cylindrical moulding housing a hinged pin mechanism, though the pin is missing. Above the head is an integrally cast circular chain loop. The plain narrow and arched bow is broken at the bottom and the leg and catchplate are missing. The surviving length is 27.1mm, the width is 14.8mm and the weight is 3.64g.
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: BH-0AFE56
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy brooch of probable medieval date. No parallel could be found for this unusual form, but the style of the setting and the method of pin attachment suggest that it is a variation on the well-known ring brooch series of the 13th to 15th centuries AD. Just under half remains of what appears to have been an openwork cruciform brooch. The surviving complete arm has slightly concave outer edges and a raised circular collet, containing a corroded glass paste inset, at the centre of the vertical side. One side of two other arms survives and at the point where on…
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Hertfordshire', grid reference and parish protected.