Record ID: DENO-7CF345
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman brooch; cast copper alloy duck brooch with enamelled decoration, dating to the 2nd century. The head is missing, although the neck is still present, in the form of a narrow, curving shaft. The brooch is in the form of a sitting duck with its wings folded on its back. It has alternating bands of red and white enamel along the wings. The fixing for the pin is still present, on the underside of the brooch, near the duck's tail. The fixing consists of two parallel curved lugs, each with a piercing which holds the copper alloy pin bar. The hinge of the pin, which is also copper alloy,…
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DENO-7C7BB4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Roman brooch; cast copper alloy Colchester derivative Polden Hill (flat wing ends type, West Midlands) type cf. Mackreth 2011, 4.a-4.b, 4c. The brooch has broad, cylindrical wings with a plate on each end with a dot in the centre. The back of the head has a large lump of rust-coloured corrosion suggesting that the pin, which is now missing, was probably made of iron and has thus corroded away. The brooch has a deeply-curving, tapering bow with no extant decoration. The catchplate is still present at the base of the bow. There is no foot decoration. The whole has an even, thick, grey-g…
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Saturday 15th October 2016
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Record ID: DENO-7C61B1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman brooch; incomplete cast copper alloy trumpet brooch of 1st or 2nd century date. This fragment is missing its head but has the typical circular, flattened base terminal and decorative collar at mid-section which suggest that it probably originally had a trumpet-style head. The pin is missing but the catchplate is still present. The whole has a thick, even, grey-green patina over its surface. Length 38.50mm, width 8.53mm, depth 18.46mm, weight 5.22g. Ref: See Hattatt pages 326 & 327 (figs 185 & 186) for examples of trumpet brooches
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DENO-7BDB52
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman brooch; incomplete cast copper alloy T-shaped brooch with zoomorphic decoration on the bow, probably dating to the 1st century or 2nd century. This is a small, narrow brooch with unusual zoomorphic decoration in the form of a crouching beast, probably a lion or leopard, moulded at the head of the brooch, facing down the bow. The fragment has the remains of small, narrow wings containing the pin bar, although the pin itself is now missing. Both wings are very worn. The bow curves shallowly from the head of the brooch and is further decorated, just beyond the crouching beast, with …
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: DENO-7BB746
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Roman brooch; cast copper alloy bow brooch of probable 1st century date. The brooch has a very small head with virtually no extant wings. The bow is a simple, tapering band with no foot decoration. It curves deeply out from the head. There is no extant decoration on the bow of the brooch. The loop of the hinged, copper alloy pin is still present, but the shaft of the pin is now missing. Length 34.69mm, width 9.98mm, depth 15.30mm, weight 4.21g.
Created on: Sunday 30th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DENO-4EF591
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval brooch; Anglo-Saxon cast copper alloy cruciform brooch with extensive gilding and the remains of applied silver sheet. Dated to the late 6th century by its elaborate design and the use of the Bichrome Style. Currently in two fragments as the top knob has broken away from the head plate. The brooch has integrally cast top and side knobs, together with small lappets beneath the bow and a broad, elaborate foot. Each of the top and side knobs is broadly rectangular with pointed extensions on either side around the middle of the knob. The three knobs each take the form of …
Created on: Friday 28th December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 24th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Treswell Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-4E2697
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman (100-300AD)plate brooch. Cast in copper alloy this brooch is circular in plan. The centre of the brooch as an empty setting, measuring 12.7mm in diameter, at the centre of this setting is a raised circle, measuring 4.5mm in diameter. The central setting is surrounded by a double border of rope-work design, with a raised ring to seperate the two decorative areas. A small amount of enamel survives on the rope-work design. The reverse of the brooch has an incomplete single hinge lug for the (now missing) pin, and an incomplete catchplate. A large amount of silvering/tinning covers t…
Created on: Friday 28th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'High Laver CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-EA4F13
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Dolphin brooch of Roman, first century date (AD 43 – AD 100). Length: 18.2mm; width: 21.1mm and 8.9mm thick. Weight: 5.02g. Part of the wings and the lower part of the bow, including the catch-plate, are missing due to old breaks. The pin is also missing. The fully enclosed (tubular) wings have a maximum width of 21.1mm although they were originally wider prior to being corroded and damaged. It is not clear whether the wings tapered towards their tips or whether they were parallel. The longer wing is decorated with at least two grooves which may…
Created on: Sunday 23rd December 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-C0DB76
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper alloy and tinned Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) brooch of late fifth to sixth century (c. AD 475 - c. AD 600). Length: 20.0mm; width: 15.8mm and 5.6mm thick. Weight: 2.68g. The fragment is probably part of the foot of a small-long brooch or the foot of a radiate-headed brooch. It has old transverse breaks at either end. The break near the catch-plate appears to be more recent than the other break. The front is flat and in plan the sides are curvilinear in profile: they flare outwards and then inwards so that when the foot was complete it was probably sub-loze…
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-C03D14
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy annular brooch length 22mm, width 18mm, thickness 4mm, weight 2.6g. There are four collets spaced evenly around the frame, these taper outwards along the frame giving a sub-triangular cross-section. Each is filled with a white paste that would have been or held a gem decoration. There is a constriction of the pin, which has a circular cross-sectio; the end has been bent around the constriction. A quarter of the way round the frame from the pin constriction is a second constriction from which a bird shaped pendant is suspended. The bird is displayed, so it faces f…
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: GLO-C01623
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: South Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy strip bow brooch length 44mm, width 11mm, thickness 2mm, weight 3.8g. Rolled axis bar which has been straitened, one side is snapped; the bow narrows gradually into the foot; On its reverse is a curving catchplate. The front of the bow is decorated with two vertical smoothly grooved lines; the whole piece has been bent into a 90 degree angle Date 43-75AD
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-BF98A1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy flat, lozenge-shaped brooch length: 22mm; width: 23mm; thickness: 4mm; weight: 1.22g. The brooch has a flat-sectioned frame the sides have a rectangular border containing a line of five pellets, each corner is decorated with a series of smaller pellets. One of the corners has a circular hole for the pin. The back of the brooch is flat and undecorated. Overall, the brooch is in a slightly worn but fair condition with a dark green patina. This artefact dates to the 13th/ 14th century AD a similar example has been recorded on the database WMID-2CD406.
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coberley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-BF8B26
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Dolphin brooch length 22mm, width 25mm, thickness 8mm weight 4.78g. cylindrical wing which hold the pin support bar. Three sets of grooved lines run around the circumference of the wing. A narrow slot at the centre of the head's underside indicates the point at which the now-missing pin would have been hinged. There are two sets of vertical grooves at the top of the head, the rest of the bow is plain an tapers in width to the point where it is broken. The foot section is missing. This objects dates to 55-100AD
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coberley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-BCFEB5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy annular brooch of Medieval date. The object comprises a flat-sectioned disc with a wide central perforation. The disc is slightly convex, with the face having an incised - possibly turned - border around the diameter.
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-BC8211
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Iron Age – early Roman copper alloy Aucissa brooch (AD40-65). The pin (no longer present) hinged in a narrow tube formed from the top of the bow rolled back above the head plate. The bow is decorated with longitudinal grooves and traces of a white metal coating remain. The bow narrows to the foot and there is no foot plate. The shape of the bow is distorted. Dimensions: length: 44.06mm; width: 10.95mm; thickness: 1.98mm; weight: 2.27g
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Oxfordshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-BB0102
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy annular brooch. The pin is missing. There is a recessed bar for the pin. There is no distinguishable decorative motif.
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 29th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-BB0303
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy English jetton that has been modified for re-use as a brooch. For the jetton see Mitchiner (1988, 107) no. 168 and Berry (1974, Pl. 2) no. 6, which are both similar but for some differences of detailing regarding the cross terminals and inner circles on the reverse.
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd August 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-BADE05
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy object with La Tene decoration. Possibly part of a penannular brooch.
Created on: Friday 21st December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-AA1187
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Knob of a cast copper alloy crossbow brooch.
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-A9B038
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper alloy and gilded looped plate brooch of Roman, first century date (AD 43 – AD 100). Length: 15.3mm; width: 18.7mm and 5.1mm thick. Weight: 1.63g. The fragment consists of a circular cell, 6.4mm in diameter with a central circular depression which has a diameter of1.6mm. The cell, including the depression, is partially filled with a white decorative calcium carbonate paste. On the right hand side is a D-shaped loop. There appears to have been a similar loop on the left side. However, this is largely missing due to two old breaks. The rear face is flat an…
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.