Record ID: IOW-273A25
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Early-Medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) cast gilded copper-alloy radiate-headed or miniature bow brooch (c. 450-c. 550). The lower part and the pin are missing. The head is semi-circular and on the front is a chip carved design with a raised zig-zag forming slightly arched chevrons. A knop at the apex has two small circular recesses, and there is a small flat undecorated knop at the lower right-hand corner. It is assumed that there would have been a similar knop at the opposite corner. On the reverse of the headplate, a single pin lug is largely obscured by a corroded iron…
Created on: Monday 18th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-25E5F8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval (late 10th - 11th century) copper alloy enamel cloisonné disk brooch: The body of the brooch is circular with twelve equidistant knops on the exterior edge. The edge of the brooch (excluding the knops) has a collar which rises up from the front of the brooch. The knops and collar have incomplete gilding. Within this collar, the circular field is decorated with cloisonné fields of blue, yellow and white enamel. The design is a eight-petalled flower with the leaves decorated with alternating light blue, white and yellow enamel. The field around the flower is decorate…
Created on: Monday 18th August 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
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Record ID: BERK-227A1D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Nauheim derivative La Tene III type brooch dating to the Late Iron Age / early Roman period. The brooch has a narrow bow that tapers to the base. The outside edges of the bow are slightly serrated, with short transverse grooves leading inwards from each serration; the middle section is worn almost flat. On the spine of the bow itself are two (possibly three) incised 'X's arranged vertically. The catchplate is damaged but mostly complete and unusually also has serrations. Most of the spring coil and the pin is missing. No direct comparison could be found for …
Created on: Monday 18th August 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 11th February 2015
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Record ID: BH-21457E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of an Iron Age copper-alloy La Tène type 1 brooch, dating from the early 5th to early 3rd centuries BC. The arched bow is of flattened-oval section, tapering at the top, where it would have extended into the now-missing spring. The foot extends straight downwards from the base of the bow, has a projecting, grooved catchplate and a remnant of its curved return. Length: 46.3mm; width: 5.6mm; depth/height: 16.6mm. Weight: 5g.
Created on: Monday 18th August 2014
Last updated: Monday 18th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Hadham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-20E19D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Colchester-derivative brooch, dating from the mid to late 1st century AD. The brooch is complete but slightly distorted. The copper-alloy spring, comprising eight coils, is held in place by an axis bar and external chord, both of which are contained within perforated lugs at the centre of the head's underside. These lugs extend into the bow, forming a grooved central ridge, which creates a trapezoidal section. The bow decreases in width towards the bottom, where the brooch terminates in a squared-off foot and openwork catchplate. Length: 31.1mm; width: 18.6mm. Wei…
Created on: Monday 18th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 15th March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Hadham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-20CFD7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman Wirral brooch of the second century AD. This brooch weighs 14.31g in its incomplete state and is [probably] a Wroxeter type late first century AD to mid second century AD. At the top is a head loop, the outer edge of which is convex with flattened internal reverse and upper edges. The external diameter of this loop is 9.0mm and the circular internal diameter is 5.2mm. Below the loop is a rectangular field of 6.1mm length and 10.6mm width. This plate has a thickness of 1.9mm. The upper surface of this zone is decorated with transverse lines of slight…
Created on: Monday 18th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 18th February 2016
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Record ID: CAM-20B8E2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy Late Iron Age - early Roman Langon Down brooch dated AD 25-60. The pin would have been sprung and held within a cylinder spring case, and weighs 5.12g. This cylinder is formed from the expansion of the top and bottom edge of the wings which curve around forming a now incomplete encasement. This encasement is likely to have had a small notch for the pin to exit the encasement from. The pin no longer survives. The curved wings have a width of 19.3mm and height of 6.3mm. The ends of the wings are open and seem not to have had end-caps. No decoration is visibl…
Created on: Monday 18th August 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 10th September 2014
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Record ID: IOW-206B97
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Roman cast copper-alloy possible Trumpet brooch (AD 75-175). This fragment is the leg with an incomplete catch-plate. Viewing the brooch from the front, the leg tapers in width from the break at the top towards the foot knob, flaring slightly just before the knob. The catch-plate is incomplete and the curled-over part that secured the pin-tip is missing due to breaks. The underside of the knob is flat and plain. This fragment is undecorated and has a mid-green patina. There are small areas of corrosion and the breaks are abraded. Height: 32.4mm; width: 6.3mm; …
Created on: Monday 18th August 2014
Last updated: Monday 18th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-1D8493
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy annular brooch of Medieval date. It has an oval frame that is D-shaped in section with slightly concave back face and rounded front face. At one end the frame expands to a flattened triangular projection. This is decorated on its front face with a moulded quatrefoil or four-petalled floral motif. The remaining areas of the front face have moulded decoration comprising alternating oval and circular beads, one of which has a rectangular pin constriction. Both the outer end inner edge of the frame have single circumferential grooves at their centres. Hinging around th…
Created on: Monday 18th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 9th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-1D6CE4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon zoomorphic disc brooch with relief decoration depicting a backward-looking animal. It is missing the pin due to old breaks, now worn. It is a flattened D-shape in section. The front face has as its central decorative motif of a quadruped standing left with all four legs visible, its head facing backwards with an open mouth and a triangular pointed tail bent forwards over the back to meet the head. The outer edge is decorated with a border of rectangles formed by diagonal grooves. The back face is flat and undecorated. It has a rectangu…
Created on: Monday 18th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 14th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stonham Aspal', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-1D4AE8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of an early Roman copper-alloy brooch. The wings appear to have been semi-cylindrical in section. Both ends are incomplete; a small incomplete tab representing all that remains of the bow extends from the middle. The tab is rather flat and rectangular in section, suggesting that it might be from something like a thistle brooch.
Created on: Monday 18th August 2014
Last updated: Monday 18th August 2014
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Record ID: LIN-1CDFE5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a late Iron Age or early Roman thistle brooch. The head is oval, convex, and from this extends a short bow of C-shaped profile. It is likely that this C-shaped bow extended over a backplate as is typical in this form of brooch. The lower half is missing.
Created on: Monday 18th August 2014
Last updated: Monday 18th August 2014
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Record ID: LIN-1C5A0E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper alloy hinged dolphin brooch, dating circa AD75-150. The wings are cylindrical in section; the upper part of the pin survives. The wings are undecorated. The bow is comma-shaped in profile and triangular in section.
Created on: Monday 18th August 2014
Last updated: Monday 18th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Apley', grid reference and parish protected.