Record ID: SF-9E3A17
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn cast copper-alloy knop from an Anglo-Saxon/Early-Medieval long brooch, probably a florid cruciform brooch. The knop is in the form of a Style I human face mask with chip carved decoration with spatulate terminal end in the form of inward facing Style I beaked bird heads. The top(?) of the face is triangular/conical in form with transverse moulded grooves beneath which is a prominent brow with broad transverse groove. Below the brow are two pointed oval shaped eyes with projecting circular eye balls, separated by a triangular nose. At the base of the head is a long, pointed tria…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd March 2011
Last updated: Friday 23rd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Banham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-430738
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy disc brooch of middle or late Anglo-Saxon date and of backward-looking animal type. The front face has as its central decorative motif a quadruped standing left with all four legs visible, its head facing backwards and a triangular pointed tail bent forwards over the back to meet it. Three toes or claws are visible on each foot. The animal is contained within a slightly irregular beaded border and is extremely worn due to post-depositional damage. The back face of the brooch is flat and undecorated. It has a square lug to one side with central circular …
Created on: Tuesday 12th October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 14th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fritton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-BE4726
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy cruciform brooch of Anglo-Saxon date. It is missing the headplate and pin due to old breaks but is otherwise complete. The bow is steeply curved in profile with hollow/concave back face and faceted front face that has a flattened central vertical rib. At the top and bottom of the bow are flattened rectangular panels. The top of the foot has a flat rectangular panel that is undecorated but has projecting semi-circular lappets to either side each with spiralling, incised (zoomorphic?) motifs. Beneath the panel are two prominent transverse ridges below whi…
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2011
Last updated: Monday 7th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rushford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3885
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead pseudo-coin brooch based on the Aethelred II last small cross type (minted 1009-1017). Circular and 26 mm in diameter, it is now bent around the edges. In the centre is a small relief cross made from four distinct wedges; around this is a plain relief circle, then the legend within an outer border of pellets. The legend reads + T M A O P P - - - N A O (the T may be a second cross; the P shapes are reversed; part of the legend is missing). The legend may be derived from + MA [NIE ON NOR] HA (Manna of Norwich, the moneyer) but it is too blundered to be certain. On the reverse is an…
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2000
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WEETING WITH BROOMHILL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4704
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small-long brooch, missing the terminal to the foot. The head consists of a central square plate, decorated with two vertical rows of crescentic stamps which continue the line of the bow edges upwards. The stamp used appears to be rather crude and the rows are irregular. The headplate is worn, and four stamps in each row can clearly be seen, although there are hints of others running right up to the edge of the square plate. On three sides of the square central plate are large flat mushroom-shaped knobs, with cut-out curves making the 'stems'. The total width of the headplate is 4…
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK MERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10288
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy incomplete ansate brooch, measuring 31mm in length. The bow is arched, plain with a central longditudinal rib and triangular in cross-section. One terminal whish is a circular disc remains and measures 13mm in diameter. Its front face is decorated with a design which consists of four elongated oval-shaped 'petals' meeting in the centre of the disc, three are pointing away from the bow and one towards it, four similar 'petals' also form a boarder along the edge opposite the bow. The other disc is missing due to an old break. A similar ansate brooch was found in Ipswic…
Created on: Friday 17th January 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 30th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SAHAM TONEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9E45F3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon small long brooch, measuring 65.43mm in total length and 32.79mm in width. The head is trefoil in shape around a central square, it is undecorated. The bow is arched and faceted with a central longitudinal ridge, the flat panel is undecorated but the half round panel has a decorative band of six transverse mouldings across it. The foot flares into a spatulate form and has small vertical notches along its terminal edge. On the back face the pin loop is complete and there is a mass of corroded iron, presumably the remains of an iron pin, …
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Banham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-CF1E57
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval copper alloy disc brooch of backward-looking animal type. It is a small flat disc, 28.16mm in diameter with the surface very worn. It is decorated with a backward-looking animal, surrounded by a border of pellets. The animal has a raised tail, and its four limbs terminate in a two or three-element paw. The face is worn but the eye is ring-like, and the back of the neck is ragged suggesting a mane. The reverse is plain, with a lug and a fragment of the catchplate. A similar brooch from Butley, Suffolk is illustrated in Wilson 1964. There are a number of findspots for …
Created on: Monday 24th April 2006
Last updated: Thursday 14th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foulden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-899164
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and worn copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon small-long brooch. The head and bow are incomplete and the foot is missing, due to old breaks. This brooch measures 41.63mm in surviving length. The head is rectangular in shape, 21.48mm in length and 22.68mm in width. It has three surviving circular holes along its upper edge and there are the remains of other incomplete holes along the two vertical edges. There is a double grooved border delimiting the central panel with double crescent-shaped indentations running along its inner edges. On the back face of the head, at i…
Created on: Monday 15th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Buckenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-29EFB2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy disc brooch of Weetch's type 18 and middle to late Anglo-Saxon date; the transverse pin lug and copper-alloy pin survive but the catch plate is now missing. The brooch is circular and 20.8mm in diameter; it is flat and 1.2mm in thickness. The front face has a recessed (champleve) cross made up from four curved reserved strips, forming a recessed roughly oval cell in each quadrant. Traces of decayed greenish possible enamel can be seen within the cross and oval cells, but the original colour of the possible enamel is no longer clear. On the reverse the pin lug is inte…
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weeting', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-B7B646
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The copper-alloy horsehead terminal of an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. The surviving terminal is 31.42mm in length and 12.69mm in width. The horse head terminal has boulbous eyes with fine moulded eyebrows the nose is long and ends in flaring rounded nostrils, which are decorated with fine curvilinear mouldings. On the back face of the terminal the lower fragment of the catch plate survives.
Created on: Monday 17th July 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Banham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-EB5546
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy ansate (caterpillar) middle Anglo-Saxon brooch in good condition. It measures 56mm in total length and 15mm in width. The bow is rectangular in shape with a flat top and sloping sides. The flat top is roughly lozenge shaped and decorated with an incised cross with a small circular boss in its centre and one small circular boss in each angle. The sloping sides of the bow are decorated with parallel longitudinal border grooves. The terminals are also roughly lozenge shaped and flat, again with an incised cross with a central boss and a boss in e…
Created on: Friday 7th January 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Middleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4A33A6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon brooch, The foot of which is missing due to old breaks, now worn. The head plate is trefoil in over all shape and the arms crescentic, one terminal of the central arm is missing due to an old break. The outer edges of the crescentic arms are decorated with tiny transverse grooves. The head measures 31.6mm in width and 26mm in length. The arched bow measures 12.4mm in length and 7mm in width, it has a central longitudinal ridge. In the centre of the reverse of the head plate there is an incomplete pin loop with iron corrosion with…
Created on: Thursday 17th February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thetford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4BD9B2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead late Anglo-Saxon disc brooch in good condition, with only slight damage, now worn around its edges. This brooch measures 25.2mm in diameter and has a slightly domed centre on its front face. Its front face is decorated with a circle around the domed centre with two concentric circles in the centre of this. There is a cross overlying the domed centre, the outline of which is formed of two parallel lines with small transverse mouldings in between them. The four rounded corners of the cross shape terminate outside the central circle. In between the four corners outside …
Created on: Thursday 17th February 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thetford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-82E737
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy fragment of the foot of an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, the lower part of the foot and the upper part of the horse head terminal now survives, the rest of this brooch is missing due to old breaks. This fragment measures 35.3mm in length and c13mm in width and is roughly rectangular in shape. The foot has two transverse ridges across it. The horse head terminal has a rounded front face and a transverse V-shaped brow ridge. There is central longitudinal ridge running down the terminal and two parallel globular projecting eyes. On the back of …
Created on: Tuesday 21st June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Buckenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-013891
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The worn copper-alloy horsehead terminal of an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. Measuring 32.4mm in length and 13.7mm in width. The front face has a worn pair of parallel protruding bulbous eyes, the snout has a worn central longitudinal ridge and the nostrils flare outwards at the end of the terminal. The back face is slightly concave and again very worn.
Created on: Monday 27th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southery', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4F9CC8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late early medieval copper-alloy trefoil brooch, with the terminal of one arm missing due to an old break. It measures 38mm by 28mm and is worn, each arm is c12mm in width. It is flat and the front face has simple decoration with a central triangle delimited by border grooves, each arm is roughly rectangular in shape with a rounded terminal and has two parallel border grooves. Within these there is a worn foliate design depicting what appears to be a single leaf with jagged V-shaped notches along its edges. On the reverse there is a probable catch plate, which is set…
Created on: Monday 25th July 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 4th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southery', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-65BE03
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy middle Anglo-Saxon ansate brooch of Weetch type II.Aiii. This brooch is complete and has an arched bow and two oval terminals. It measures 38.2mm in length, each terminal is c. 10.4mm in width, and the bow is 3.8mm in width. The front of the terminals are decorated with cross-hatched grooves. On the back face one terminal has a catchplate projecting from its centre and the other has a single pin lug, no trace of the pin survives. Although ansate brooches can be earlier on the continent, in England they date from the 8th to 10th centuries.
Created on: Friday 7th October 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 14th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thetford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-DEC254
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon brooch with the foot missing due to an old break, now worn. This brooch is most likely to be of cruciform type as it has a top knob projecting from the centre of the headplate, however, as the foot is missing it is not known if it had the diagonstic horse-head terminal of cruciform brooches. It measures 44.5mm in surviving length. The head has a rectangular head plate, 21mm in width and 11mm in height. The headplate has a integral top knob which is rounded. The headplate has no delimited central panel and is decorated on its fr…
Created on: Tuesday 25th October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hockwold cum wilton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9041
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Corroded small-long brooch made from copper alloy. The head is rectangular, measuring 20 mm wide by 18 mm long, and is decorated with a double row of punchmarks around three edges. Each punchmark consists of a crescent around a dot, and may have been made by holding a ring-and-dot punch at an angle. There is a just-discernable engraved line between the two rows, and the punchmarks each have their straight edge towards this groove. On the reverse of the head is a single pin bar lug now blocked with iron corrosion. The lower edge of the head has no decoration, and the bow springs from…
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SAHAM TONEY', grid reference and parish protected.