Record ID: ESS-C02053
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy ring, nearly 20 mm in diameter; roughly circular in cross-section nearly 1.5 mm across. It weighs 0.75g. Possibly a medieval brooch frame, or a medieval or post-medieval buckle frame; perhaps more probably a harness ring, part of a chain, etc. c.1100-1900AD.
Created on: Wednesday 5th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Canvey Island', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-B47832
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy one piece Roman Colchester brooch. One of the wings is short, flat and complete, whilst the other is entirely missing. At the head of the brooch the forward facing hook that held the spring cord is entirely missing. Nothing of the spring or pin survives. The bow of the brooch is sub-circular in section, with a slight flattening to the back, which is more obvious towards the head. It tapers to a sharply pointed foot. The lower foot portion of the brooch is bent out of true with two noticeable kinks. Nothing of the catchplate remains. The original surface of the b…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mount Bures', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-B4A984
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of cast, copper alloy Romano-British two piece ‘Colchester type’ brooch. The wings on this fragment are severely truncated but appear to have been semicylindrical. Behind the head of the brooch is the remains of the double lug, that originally had two perforations one on top of the other. Only a portion of the lower part of the lower lug survives. The spring and pin are entirely missing. Running from the head of the brooch onto the bow is a pronounced crest. The bow is truncated just beneath the crest and nothing else of the brooch remains, however it is possible to see th…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Tey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-CA3565
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy supporting-arm brooch. This brooch was previously recorded on this database as an "unknown type" late Roman bow brooch. The original discription of the object has been kept below: The head of the brooch is formed from a flat, rectangular panel capped at either end with a D-shaped pierced lug. The rectangular panel is decorated to the front with two moulded steps and a moulded horizontal beaded line that runs along the bottom edge of the first step. Within the spring case the copper-alloy spring survives intact with six coils, with a short length of th…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd February 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-E00E37
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete tutulus type plate brooch. The brooch is in poor condition and encrusted with whitish deposits.
Created on: Thursday 24th February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Willingale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-48BB10
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Romano-British ‘Colchester’ two piece type brooch. Both wings are complete, semicylindrical and plain. Behind the head is a lug pierced with two circular perforations which holds the surviving six coiled spring head with external cord. The pin shaft is entirely missing. Running from the head of the brooch onto the bow is a well-moulded crest with a notch at its very top. Where the crest ends, a grooved line then runs for the length of the brooch. To either side of the crest is a moulded raised line that also runs the length of the brooch, flanking the groove…
Created on: Tuesday 1st March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-AC0322
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, one piece Nauheim derivative, Iron Age or early Romano-British brooch. The head of the brooch would once have been formed from the coiled wire forming the spring coils, spring chord and pin. However this portion of the brooch has broken away, leaving only a short length of the wire bent in a C shape that curves forward above the bow for 5mm. The bow of the brooch turns down from the head with an approximate 90-degree bend. It is flat in section with a slight doming. It tapers to a sharp point, without a foot knob. The bow is undecorated. The rear of the bow is also plain. T…
Created on: Wednesday 30th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-AC3352
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of cast copper alloy Romano-British bow brooch, probably from a Colchester two piece type. This fragment represents the lower portion of the bow, foot, and catchplate of the original brooch. Everything else is missing. The bow is triangular in section and extends into the foot without tapering. The centre of the bow is decorated with a raised central rib that continues along the foot. This rib is decorated with a continuous zigzag pattern. The catchplate is pierced with a circular perforation above a triangular perforation. These are both blocked. The curl is intact and recess…
Created on: Wednesday 30th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-AC5568
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of cast copper alloy Romano-British Colchester two piece type brooch. This fragment represents the head of the brooch. The wings are semicylindrical and damaged to either end. To the reverse of the wings, the lug with two perforations survives intact. It holds the remains of the spring coils, four intact to one side, two to the other (there would have been eight coils in total) and the external spring chord, which passes through the upper perforation. The pin shaft is missing. At the front of the wings is a pronounced crest that runs onto the top of the bow. The brooch is tru…
Created on: Wednesday 30th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-AC8D60
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon small-long brooch. The head plate is formed from a central square from which extends to either side and above a crescentic terminal on a slight, wasted band (demarcated by two parallel grooved lines), giving it a cruciform plan. All three terminals are chipped and abraded, with one being little more than a triangular knop. The central square is decorated with a vertical line of five punched dots to the left side (when viewed head on) and an unknown number to the right, though at least three are visible. There does not appear to be any other dec…
Created on: Wednesday 30th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-ACC646
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Anglo-Saxon square headed brooch. This fragment represents one of a pair of side lobes typically found on the brooch. The fragment is tongue shaped in plan and flat in section and is 30.18mm long, 23.6mm wide and 3.9mm thick. The top face of the fragment is abraded, but it appears to be decorated with five concentric arches of raised beaded lines. Within the inner most arch is a raised moulding, probably representing a facemask. The mask has suboval depressions for ‘eyes’ and possibly a long down turned moustache. The top face of the fragment retains a fair amount of gi…
Created on: Wednesday 30th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-C029E2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost complete copper alloy Roman bow brooch. The wings of the brooch are semicylindrical and plain. The double lug to the rear of the wings holds the complete eight-spring coil, complete with external chord and the pin shaft, which survives for 28.94mm. Only the very end of the pin shaft is missing, the missing portion being almost parallel to the length of the catchplate. The bow is unusually lozenge shaped and bevelled. Beneath the bow is an integrally moulded boss formed from a central globule with a raised band above and below. The foot of the brooch is plain and tapers slightly …
Created on: Thursday 31st March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-3D4AB6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Roman disc brooch. This brooch is circular in plan. It has a surviving diameter of 33.6mm, is 1.86mm thick and weighs 4.36g. The field of the disc surface is divided by raised concentric lines, one that borders the entire disc, another set 5.4mm in, and a final, thicker line set 4.6mm from that line. This divides the surface into a central dot surrounded by a double band. The central dot appears to be devoid of enamel but the now bright green copper alloy surface is visible. The inner band has traces of enamel, now a patchwork of yellow and green, within which …
Created on: Wednesday 6th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Berners Roding', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-5363C3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Romano-British ‘Colchester’ two piece type brooch. Both wings are complete and semicylindrical, though one has received some damage to its terminal end. The wings are decorated with two pairs of double parallel lines to each wing. On each wing, one pair is set to either side of the head of the brooch and comprises of a raised beaded line first, paired with a raised plain line. The other pair of lines is at the terminal end of the wing and the plain line is set before the beaded line. Behind the head is a lug pierced with two circular perforations. The upper…
Created on: Thursday 7th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmstead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-0F4B97
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast copper alloy brooch 13th century brooch. The brooch is sub-shield shaped in plan and domed in section, in that it is a moulded design with, probably, a slightly flatter reverse. The frame is formed from two opposing figures each with both arms upraised, joined by a subrectangular moulded mid section to complete the frame at the upper edge. The lower portion of frame is formed from the lower bodies of the figures curving down and inwards into a single leg, which are similarly joined as the hands, with a rectangular portion of frame. Beneath this rectangular portion, at the…
Created on: Thursday 28th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shoeburyness', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-206F64
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Romano-British ‘Colchester’ two piece type brooch. Both wings are complete and semicylindrical. Each wing is decorated with a pair of transverse incised lines positioned at the terminal ends and to either side of the bow. Behind the head is a double lug, now damaged, and with the perforations obscured by corrosion product. The spring and pin are entirely missing, though large areas of corrosion behind one wing may have been formed over the coil. Running from the head of the brooch onto the bow is a well-moulded crest. The crest extends into a moulded central…
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-85D6A4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Romano-British ‘Colchester’ two piece type brooch. Both wings are semicylindrical, complete in length, but damaged along their sides. Both wings are plain. Behind the head is a double lug, which holds the remains of the exterior spring cord and spring coil. The spring coil survives to one side with three clear coils. Originally it probably had four coils to either side. The pin is entirely missing. Running from the head of the brooch onto the bow is a crest. Running from the crest along the entire length of the bow and leg, is a pair of parallel, raised line…
Created on: Monday 16th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broomfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-8603C0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy one piece Roman Colchester brooch. Both wings are short, flat and complete. At the head of the brooch the forward facing hook that held the spring cord is truncated, worn and corroded. Nothing of the spring or pin survives. The bow of the brooch is sub-circular in section, with a slight flattening to the back, which is more obvious towards the head. It tapers to a sharply pointed foot. Raised ‘fins’ of thin metal along the reverse of the brooch are all that remain of the catchplate. The brooch is now significantly bent into a ‘C’ shape. The original surf…
Created on: Monday 16th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broomfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-87BB93
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost complete copper alloy medieval annular brooch. The brooch frame is circular in plan and section. There is a stepped and wasted pin bar, this constriction identifying the object as a brooch rather than buckle. The pin survives to approximately half its length, and is now detached from the frame. Much of the original surface of the frame survives with an even dark green patina. Exposed surfaces on the frame are bright green. The copper alloy pin is mostly bright green with corrosion. The frame has an external diameter of 22.26mm and is 3.24mm wide and 2.68mm thick. The pin has a s…
Created on: Monday 16th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roxwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-1DC5A4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of cast copper alloy Early Medieval brooch. This small fragment is semicircular in plan and flat in section. The main body of the fragment is ever so slightly recessed. It has been carved with a border that runs along the curved edge, which is hatched with diagonally raised lines. A plain raised line runs along the straighter edge. To one side of the plain raised line is a raised semicircle. Both the tops of the line and the semicircle are abraded. The decorative front side of the fragment is gilded. The reverse is plain and traces of silvering or tinning survive. The entire c…
Created on: Monday 23rd May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fingringhoe', grid reference and parish protected.