Record ID: SF-DB88A1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but worn copper alloy detachable knob probably from an Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, perhaps from the side rather than top of the brooch. The knob has a terminal end that is semi-circular in section with an exterior surface that appears to have triangular faceting. Beneath the terminal the knob is waisted with a slight groove above and below. The attachment end is circular in shape and has a single incised groove that runs circumferentially around the outer face. The underside of the knob is flat and has a slot accross one end. The entire object is pierced by a central circu…
Created on: Friday 14th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickham Skeith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-077DE1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper alloy and gilded object, probably part of a miniature square-headed brooch of Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (c. AD 500 – c. AD 600). Length: 8.6mm; width: 7.5mm and 1.9mm thick. Weight: 0.49g. This is probably the lower part of the foot of a miniature square-headed brooch. At the front moulded decoration is in the form of a raised central sub-square shape enclosed by a raised square frame. The rear face is flat and pitted due to corrosion. Traces of gilding are visible at the front only. There is no evidence for burning or melting.
Created on: Sunday 16th November 2008
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

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: WILT-42CFC6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Early-Medieval copper alloy disc brooch, flat, and with slight edge damage and missing its pin. It measures 37mm in diameter, is 1.5mm thick and weighs 10.05g. It was probably originally tinned. The front of the brooch has a very shiny and smooth patina. Where the edge is undamaged tiny little transverse grooves can be seen. The reverse has iron staining around the pin lug and is missing the curl of the catchplate. The surface is very rough. Circa 6th century in date.
Created on: Wednesday 19th November 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 10th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-51B3A4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gilded copper-alloy nummular brooch of late early-medieval date (11th century AD). Perhaps two-thirds of the artefact survives, bent; only a limited section of the circumference is extant. This is effectively a repoussé disc brooch, decorated unifacially with a design raised up from below. The design is that of a crowned, bearded and ?draped bust facing right, with a sceptre to the right, all within a beaded border. Between the border and the surviving circumference are the letters '?EDAA?', with a faint beaded border towards the circumference. The brooch seems to be im…
Created on: Thursday 20th November 2008
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-542AB1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The foot of a copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon florid cruciform brooch. A short section from the base of the foot survives, including an elaborate Style I human-head terminal. The remainder of the brooch is missing due to old breaks. The foot is slightly convex in section, although it does not have a prominent central ridge, and the terminal has a flat back with central concave triangular recess and moulded front face. The front face of the foot, probably the nose of a horse's head, is separated into two distinct trapezoidal fields that have borders composed of double moulded lines separated…
Created on: Thursday 20th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cretingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-5DEDE4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a small Early Medieval copper-alloy cruciform brooch. Length: 22.1mm; width: 14.2mm; thickness: 3.2mm; mass: 3.1g. The fragment consists of a zoomorphic (horse-head) terminal from the foot of a brooch. The fragment has a broken edge at the top, very slightly concave edges at the sides, and a sub-oval extension at the bottom. The reverse of the fragment is flat and undecorated, but the front is in relief, decorated with ridges and grooves. There are ridges defining the eyebrows, a ridge down the snout/nose, and a series of grooves forming nested V shapes at the base. T…
Created on: Thursday 20th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bonby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6BBCC2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late early-medieval cast Borre-style disc brooch. Decoration of concave-sided lozenge with each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double-contoured knots. In the centre is a sunken circular field. Around the damaged edge is a plain raised border. The decoration is worn, as on most recorded examples. On the reverse is a rectangular scar from the missing catch-plate or pin lug and a small probably accidental perforation at the opposite edge. However, there is no trace of the corresponding element for securing the pin. This brooch is of a type commonly found in East Anglia,…
Created on: Friday 21st November 2008
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thrandeston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-A9A167
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragmentary copper alloy Early Medieval Great Square Headed Brooch of which only the bow survives. The fragment is rectangular and arched. It has a central vertical ridge with a circular boss in the middle. Chip carved decoration is present on either side of the central ridge though corrosion and dirt obscure the details of the pattern which is in Anglo Saxon Style I animal art style. There are traces of gilding at the top and bottom of the fragment on the front. There appears to be a repair in one corner of the fragment. A small square plate of copper alloy sheet affixed by a coppe…
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-C06534
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval cast copper alloy cruciform brooch, incomplete, 5th-6th century. Integrally cast top- and side-knobs, domed in outline and semi-circular in section, with groove collar. Trapezoidal headplate decorated with a central ring-and-dot and with a ring-and-dot in each if the upper corners (lower corners corroded); rectangular wings possibly each decorated with a row of ring-and-dots (unclear due to corrosion). Arched bow, flat on the reverse; it is unclear it the corners were chamfered. The foot is broken off. Off-centre on the reverse of the head is a single broken lug which wo…
Created on: Tuesday 25th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-D7E2E3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A bent and slightly corroded incomplete cast copper-alloy artefact: probably a brooch of medieval date, perhaps earlier. The original artefact is assumed to have been annular; around two-thirds now survives. One end appears complete and terminates in a lozenge with a sub-square outward protrusion just before. It is plausible that there would have been a similar opposing arrangement, but the artefact has now broken. The object widens from c. 5.1mm at the break to a maximum width of c. 7.5mm. It the tapers to a width of c. 4.2mm before the terminal (max. W.: 9.8mm). There is a perforati…
Created on: Wednesday 26th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 6th March 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-3E8A56
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval gilded copper alloy button brooch dating from 450-550 AD. The brooch consists of a small saucer shaped disc of copper alloy with a raised rim. The design on the brooch consists of an anthropomorphic face with pronounced eyebrows, nose and frowning mouth encased within a circular barley-twist outline. The back of the brooch has a catchplate missing the catchplate turnover and a very corroded iron pin that is no longer discernable from corrosion products surrounding it. Diameter: 19.53mm thickness: 1.19mm weight: 6.04g
Created on: Monday 1st December 2008
Last updated: Monday 14th November 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-409F65
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late early-medieval copper alloy disc brooch with interlacing decoration, belonging to the East Anglian Series type and dating from the late 9th or 10th century. The decoration on the object consists of a central lozenge with sunken circle inside, surrounded by an interlacing symmetrical pattern. The reverse has a catch-plate set parallel to the edge of the brooch, and a patch of iron corrosion where the pin lug once was. The pin is missing. Diameter: 27.30mm; thickness: 1.84mm; weight; 7.26g. A similar brooch can be seen in Hattat's Visual Catalogue (fig. 1692, pg. 379).
Created on: Monday 1st December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 4th October 2018
Spatial data recorded.

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-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.