Record ID: NMS-7F3D28
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age copper alloy La Téne III brooch, bent one piece, broken where tapering for spring with plain tapering bow and broken trapezoidal catch-plate, 4 x >37mm. 1st century BC/early AD.
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mettingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7E74D1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age La Téne III type brooch, four coils, internal chord below shallow arched rectangular-sectioned bow decorated with twin vertical broad and shallow grooves above two transverse grooves, damaged triangular catch-plate, 12 x 33mm. 1st century BC/early AD.
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Flixton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-FF8A66
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy La Tene III type brooch. The flat drop-shaped bow diminishes to a pointed foot. The bow is decorated with a central vertical panel of incised zigzag lines and an incised line along each border. The spring is missing. The complete catchplate has a length is 16.3mm and a width of 7.3mm. The surviving length is 49.0mm, the width is 10.5mm and the width is 2.15g.
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-853EC2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy one piece Roman Colchester brooch. The wings of the brooch are short, flat and complete. At the head of the brooch is a scar, which is where a forward facing hook would have been positioned to hold the chord of the spring. The spring head and pin shaft are entirely missing. 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 pointed foot. The very tip of the foot is now bent backwards. The catchplate is entirely missing. The brooch has a dark brown patina. Worn break edges…
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Abbess Roding', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-8512D3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy ‘Wessex type La Tène I’, one piece Iron Age brooch. The head of the brooch is now missing, but would once have comprised of an integral four-coil springhead that would have then extended into the pin shaft. All that remains is the bow of the brooch, which is distinctively arched with a squared C shape profile. It is domed in section, having a slightly flatter reverse, and tapers to either end. A downward turned knop at one end is all that remains of the foot, now heavily worn, but with a tiny fragment of the upper catchplate attached. Hattatt, 1985, Iron Ag…
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Abbess Roding', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-820A32
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age copper alloy La Tène III brooch in very fresh condition. Parts of the surface are yellowish, i.e. without verdigris. The bow is bent at about midpoint and the pin is not engaged with the catchplate. The front of the bow is decorated with four transversely engraved lines above a vertical line of rocker-arm engraving which continues to the foot. Cf. Hattatt nos.238 and 737. Length c.35mm. 1st century BC/AD.
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2005
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hindringham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-81F996
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age copper alloy penannular brooch of Fowler's (1960) Type C, pin missing, the round-section hoop complete but badly distorted into an irregular C-shape. External diameter c.30mm. 1st century BC/AD.
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2005
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hindringham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-427452
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unusual example of an incomplete cast copper alloy Romano-British brooch, possibly a Nauheim derivative. The brooch does not have any wings, as one would expect from a one piece Nauheim derivative. The head of the brooch would normally be the coiled wire forming the spring coils, spring chord and pin, however nothing of these elements remains. Instead the head of the brooch is simply the narrowed top of the bow. Unusually this top portion of the bow is flattened to either side, forming a single lug, with a circular piercing. This implies that the pin chord passed through the piercin…
Created on: Monday 5th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SOMDOR-41E3A5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast, copper alloy bow brooch of very late Iron Age or early Roman date. Langton Down type. At the head are the wings, which have been made by folding over strips of copper alloy from the very top of the brooch and also from slightly below (behind the bow) to form a single cylindrical housing. Inside are the coils of the sprung pin, which exits the wings through a notch cut at the back where the two strips of metal overlap. The pin is round sectioned and tapers to a point. The bow is offset from the wings on a short, rectangular projection with a rib along the top of it. The bow is fl…
Created on: Monday 5th December 2005
Last updated: Sunday 9th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-DC0942
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy Hallstatt brooch [Hawkes Group L] dating to the early to mid Iron Age. The fragment comprises the bow which is oval in shape and hemispherical in section The upper surface of the bow is severely corroded but is decorated with a series of vertical ribs following the curve of the bow. Each lengthwise margin of the bow is decorated with two, small, flat, circular lugs. The head and foot are missing. The fragment has a length of 27mm, a maximum width of 17mm and a thickness of 9mm. A similar example [2278] from Great Chesterford in Cambridgeshire is illustrate…
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2005
Last updated: Monday 8th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-DA5787
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman one-piece Colchester brooch. This cast copper alloy brooch is now dull brown in colour with patches of pale green corrosion. The rectangular wings are 18.63mm wide, and are slightly angled at the edges making them trapezoid in section. There is a worn break and corrosion at the end of the right wing. There is a loop extending from the centre of the head plate to hold the axis bar of the pin. The hinge and sprung pin are intact. There is a worn and corroded break on the bow, and the foot and catchplate are missing. The surviving section of the bow is a smooth curve and …
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-85FA38
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper alloy Colchester one-piece brooch of Late Iron Age or Early Roman date (AD 1 – AD 100). Length 38mm, width across wings 7mm and maximum thickness of bow 2mm. Weight 1.89g, The head of the brooch is formed by diminutive wings and an incomplete forward projecting claw that accommodated an external chord. Only the scant remains of the integral spring survives. The gently curving bow has a maximum width of 4mm just below the wings and tapers evenly to a point. It has a convex front. The upper part of the bow at the rear is flat but as it extends downwards, i…
Created on: Saturday 26th November 2005
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-34EAE7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A composite Colchester-type brooch of very late Iron Age date. The surviving brooch comprises five parts; the missing spring and pin being the sixth. The largest part is the bow and side wings; the latter appear to have been spread out to their present position and on their inside faces there is evidence for the attachment of the spring in the form of small patches of possible solder, or its former position. On the underside of the bow is a hollow groove which extends along the whole length of the bow. Within this has been inserted a separate catchplate, and this still slides…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2005
Last updated: Sunday 26th May 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMAS-3336B6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The object is an incomplete brooch of Langton Down type. It is thought to date to the late Iron Age to early Roman period or 1st Century AD. The brooch is made from cast copper alloy. As an example Hattatt (Hattatt, R 1987. Brooches of Antiquity. Oxbow: Oxford; fig.16, no. 770) illustrates a Langton Down type brooch from France which is similar to, but more complete than the recorded example. The head of the brooch comprises of a cylindrical spring cover. The only openings in the cover are at each end and through a slit on the reverse of the cover. Parts of the cover are…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-317F35
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Aesica Romano-British brooch. The wings of the brooch are semicylindrical and both sides are now truncated. To the rear of the brooch head is the remains of a rear facing hook that would have held the spring mechanism, as seen in the more common Colchester type brooch. The spring and pin are entirely missing. There is a slight crest running from the head of the brooch onto the bow. To either side of the crest, and along its length, is a short vertical incised line. The bow of the brooch is rectangular in slightly humped, before expanding down into a flatter…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Castle Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-1D0816
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper-alloy Late Iron Age to Roman Colchester one piece brooch. The short flat wings are now almost entirely missing, extending on either side of the bow for c. 3mm. From the centre at the top of the reverse of the wings there is a rectangular projection which extends back from the wings then up and forward, being re-attached to the head of the brooch forming a forward loop at the back of the wings. The circular-sectioned bow is narrow, gently angled and tapers to a point at the foot (width: 1.66-4.52mm). The bow is now heavily worn and there is no evidence of decoration. …
Created on: Monday 21st November 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-E17DC2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete wrought copper-alloy Iron Age La Tène III Nauheim derivative brooch dating to the 1st century BC/AD. Typical of this one-piece brooch type the chord is internal, although the spring coils are difficult to discern (see notes, below). The pin would have been formed by the continuation of this coil; it is therefore now missing. The bow is oval in profile and tapers towards the foot, its sides flattening as it narrows. It extends into the catchplate which survives well. The brooch is undecorated.
Created on: Friday 18th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WAW-C63947
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Penannular brooch of Fowler type C. It has a sub-circular frame in plan, with a gap. The two terminals are curled back over the frame, in one case forming a ‘C’ shape, the other a tight sub-‘G’ shape. The frame is rectangular in section. The pin is missing. The surface of the brooch has a shiny dark grey/green patina. It measures 16.05mm long, 16mm wide and 4.68mm thick. The brooch weighs 1.17g. The brooch is likely to be dated to the late Iron Age to early Roman periods. Fowler (1960 ‘The Origins and Development of the Penannular Brooch in Europe’ P…
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: LIN-C608C5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Colchester brooch. There are two rearward hooks in the centre. The wings are flat and undecorated. The bow is circular in cross-section and tapers to a pointed foot. The catchplate is incomplete.
Created on: Thursday 17th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-4DA383
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper alloy brooch of Late Iron Age date. Hawkes and Hull Group L (Hawkes and Hull 1987, 58-62, pls. 21-22). 150 BC – 50 BC. Length 38mm, width 22mm and maximum thickness across the bow 9mm. Weight 8.89g. The solid wings (or arms) are rectangular in plan and have a maximum thickness of 3mm. The upper and lower front part of the wings are ribbed vertically throughout their full width. The ribbing is interrupted by a pair of deep parallel transverse grooves. The ribbing continues on to the reverse of the wings where there is a single transverse groove. The “leech-sha…
Created on: Friday 11th November 2005
Last updated: Monday 3rd February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Freshwater Parish', grid reference and parish protected.