Record ID: NMS-198662
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon fragment of radiate-headed brooch footplate, perforated side lappet and fragment of catchplate on reverse. Sinuous ribbon-like decoration, with concentric lozenges, the outermost decorated with transverse lines. Similar to Kühn, H. (1974) 'Die Germanischen Bügelfibeln der Völkerwanderungszeit in Süddeutschland', number 12,70.
Created on: Monday 17th November 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Quidenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2A63D1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half of the bow and footplate of an Early Saxon small-long brooch. Ancient break. Rather worn. At top and base of D-section bow rectangular panel with notch on both edges between two pairs of transverse grooves. Footplate begins with two transverse mouldings above sub-triangular terminal, which is decorated with punched triangles around the edges and two punched dots in the centre. Part of the catchplate remains on the reverse, most of the flap missing. Length >38.5mm. Maximum width (at terminal) 9mm. 5th- 6th century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Quidenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-40A306
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or late Anglo-Saxon ansate brooch with flat rounded terminals, one incomplete, both decorated with engraved lines forming no coherent pattern. D-section bow, double pin lug enclosing remains of iron spring. Short (3mm) catchplate. Surviving length 34mm, width 10mm. This brooch is of Weetch's type II.Aiii, with disc-shaped terminals with geometric decoration. Weetch dates the type to the 8th to 10th centuries (2013, 144).
Created on: Monday 1st December 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 24th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Grimston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-661023
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of unusual probable Early Saxon Cruciform brooch, splayed terminal from foot, transverse break across concave sides with bordering line of tiny stamped annulets, straight end with twin engraved lines and narrow trapezoidal projection with tiny stamped annulets along both sides. Cf. brooches from Morningthorpe (1987) Graves 129 (A) with similar splayed terminal and 131 (A) with narrowed projection from terminal. 6th century.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sprowston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-68B533
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon disc brooch, very worn with a central perforation within an inner group of four ring-and-dots and a bordering outer group of eight ring-and-dots, two transverse cracks at edge, remains of broken lug within the remains of a large sub-rectangular patch of solder and an integral catch-plate on the reverse. Diameter 34mm. Cf. MacGregor and Bolick (1993), 57-68. Insular brooch type which 'tends to occur south of a line from the Severn to The Wash'. 5th-6th century.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 4th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swaffham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-68FA47
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon small-long brooch, related to Leeds’ square-headed types, broken outer edge of head with fragment of circular perforation and traces of small lunate stamps bordering both sides, short and rather flattened bow, broken possibly elongated oval or lozengiform foot with tiny fragment of original edge at junction with bow, pierced lug and broken catch-plate within iron-staining on reverse. 25 x >41mm. Ancient breaks.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swaffam', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-698432
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This was a duplicate record. For details of this object please see NMS-993175.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NMS-69A740
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon lead nummular brooch, circular with pelleted decoration in relief on face, damaged outer edge surviving best as a projection where the squashed catch-plate survives on the reverse. Diameter >36mm. The brooch is broadly nummular in type but does not exactly correlate to a particular reverse type. The nearest parallels for the arrangement of pellets and annulets are perhaps the Jewel cross types of Cnut and his successors but these lack the ornate decoration around the border of the brooch. There are no parallels for this decoration of chevrons, pellets and curved lines on th…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Last updated: Monday 22nd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swaffam', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6A8BA7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Late early medieval trefoil brooch, engraved triangular centre with one of three arms with a stylised leaf ornament, curled sheet catch-plate on reverse. Cf. Rogerson (1995) Middle Harling, fig.34, no.2, decoration very similar although Harling example has ring-and-dot. Late 9th-early 10th century. Jane Kershaw has confirmed this as - Trefoil brooch, Maixner Type G 1.3, group not known, not certain if this is of Scandinavian or Anglo-Scandinavian origin.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 4th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick with Witton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-X0008X
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early Saxon gilded square-headed brooch, remains of head-plate comprising inner panel with vertical bar between two voided rectangles, within the second panel with interrupted S-shaped loops, traces of double row of punched dots around border and running onto D-sectioned bow broken across perforation for missing bow disc. Bent double lug with iron pin-bar on reverse of head-plate. Ancient breaks. >30 x >28mm. Leeds type B1, Hines Group XVI, cf. example from Bury St Edmunds (Hines 1997) plate 58b. 6th century.
Created on: Friday 5th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buxton with Lammas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-794DC0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy small-long brooch, of Leeds (1945) trefoil-headed type, worn traces of single ring-and-dot on each semi-circular arm and one on raised rectangular plate, facetted bow and rectangular panels above D-sectioned foot with broad twin transverse grooves, discoidal foot with single ring-and-dot. Lug containing corroded remains of iron pin and catch-plate on reverse, 33 x 65mm. 6th century.
Created on: Tuesday 16th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scole', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8CC022
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon gilt copper alloy fragment of the inner panel of a footplate from a Great Square-Headed brooch, of Hines's Group XVIII Mildenhall/Morningthorpe type, no surviving original edge, >11 x >15mm. cf. Hines (1997) fig.70 d.
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caistor St Edmund', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8E66E0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Molten fragment of Early Saxon cruciform brooch, part of animal-head terminal, broken at both ends, nostrils missing, grooved transverse rib across snout, broken above eyes, stump of catch-plate on reverse. Ancient breaks. >10 x >35mm.
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A342C6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon cast Borre-style disc brooch. Corroded purplish metal. Worn decoration of concave-sided lozenge with each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double-contoured knots. The centre is perforated where the sunken circular field has been removed (probably deliberately), surrounded by a narrow circular band. On the reverse are the remains of a pin-lug set parallel to the side of the brooch with corroded traces of the missing iron pin. The catch-plate is missing. The outside edge is cracked, broken and bent upward in one place and nicked in another. Maximum diameter: 2…
Created on: Thursday 18th December 2008
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick with Witton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-33E302
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of middle or late Anglo-Saxon copper alloy ansate brooch, just under about half extant, with fresh break across bow. Terminal with two oblique engraved lines running to slight rib across end, stubs of double pin lug on reverse. Transverse rib at junction with flat sectioned bow. Surviving length 20mm. Width 10.5mm. Thörle 2001, Gruppe X C; Weetch type X.Aii. Weetch dates this type to the 8th or 9th century (2013, 161).
Created on: Tuesday 6th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 1st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beeston with Bittering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4833C2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon small-long brooch, head missing, broken bow with broad median groove and rectangular facetted panel with concave notch on both sides between pairs of engraved transverse lines, foot comprises rectangular panel with twin engraved lines, triangular sectioned length with median arris, D-sectioned moulding with seven transverse lines and bent sub-triangular foot with engraved line at straight terminal, broken catch-plate on reverse. Ancient breaks. >9 x >46mm.
Created on: Wednesday 7th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horningtoft', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-735CC6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Saxon copper alloy small-long brooch, trapezoidal head with small annulet stamps around border, broken single pierced lug on reverse within iron-corrosion from pin, facetted bow with engraved line along median arris, twin engraved horizontal lines above and below facetted rectangular panel, terminal missing (old break). 23 x >50mm.
Created on: Friday 9th January 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 10th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7410C2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two burnt and broken joining fragments of the central part of the footplate of an Early Saxon copper alloy Great square-headed brooch of Leeds Group A3 and Hines 1997 Group XV. Most of inner panel with voided central concave-sided lozenge and part of upper border with stylised animal heads. Broken catch-plate on reverse. Ancient breaks with the exception of the granular recent break where the two pieces join. >32 x >27mm. Central panel similar to that on an example from Lakenheath (Hines pl.46b). c.520 - c.570.
Created on: Friday 9th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Tuddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9F34F6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a composite silver disc brooch of rosette shape, with inlaid garnets and silver filigree ornament; it dates to the early part of the early-medieval period and is perhaps of Frankish manufacture. Six of twelve trapezoidal cells around the edge are extant, each with a convex outer edge and set with a cloisonné garnet on pointillé gold foil. These radiate from a circle containing two elliptical cells set with cloisonné garnets and a central panel with silver wire spirals on a silver backplate. Where the radiating cells have been broken, reddish brown material can be s…
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2009
Last updated: Monday 22nd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'King's Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DA5243
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Less than one third of a Kentish silver jewelled disc brooch, rim missing. The central cell is empty. Three outer cells are extant, one circular filled with decayed blue glass paste, one D-shaped filled with similar but paler material and another circular, empty and distorted. Style I zoomorphic motifs fill the spaces between the outer cells and a pelleted circle surrounds the central cell. On the reverse there are the crushed remains of a double pin lug. Much of the surfaces are obscured by adherent soil. Avent (1975) Class 7.4. Early Saxon. Mid to late 6th century. >25 x >16.5mm. We…
Created on: Monday 26th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 18th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.