Record ID: SUSS-7C3090
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A La Tène III type, Nauheim derivative type, copper-alloy Iron Age brooch from the 1st Century BC - 1st Century AD. This brooch is incomplete; it is missing the pin. This brooch is a one-piece brooch with a sprung mechanism. The internal chord extends around under the bow like most of the La Tène I and III examples seen in Hattatt. The spring mechanism has three remaining turns. The end turn extend to form the chord. The bow is slender and undecorated. The bow tapers to the end with the catchplate. There is no foot-knob on the end of the bow. The length measurement relates to the en…
Created on: Wednesday 12th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rodmell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-7C57A1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A La Tène III type, Nauheim derivative type, copper-alloy Iron Age brooch from the 1st Century BC - 1st Century AD. This brooch is incomplete; it is missing the pin. This brooch is a one-piece brooch with a sprung mechanism, none of which survives. The bow is slender and wide, and is decorated with a close together band of horizontal incised lines. The bow tapers to the end with the catchplate. There is no foot-knob on the end of the bow. The length measurement relates to the entire length of the brooch. The brooch is light greyish-green in colour. A similar example can be seen in Ha…
Created on: Wednesday 12th September 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 8th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crowborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-05DAF3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Iron Age cast copper alloy La Tene-derivative brooch (4th-3rd century BC). The brooch has a long pointed-oval bow with a looped foot. The foot has been distorted and the rounded knop at the end of the foot has been folded over on itself. At the opposite end of the brooch the sprung pin has broken off, leaving just one loop of the spring remaining. The front face of the brooch is undecorated and the reverse is plain. The brooch has an olive-green patina with patches of concretion. The brooch measures 46.7mm long, 12.1mm wide and 1.4mm thick. It weighs 3.19 grams. Hattatt (200…
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Firle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-24ADC2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Iron Age/Roman brooch, very corroded and broken pointed oval plate, decorated with central perforation between four perforated ring-and-dot, broken stumps of twin pierced lugs for pin and stump of catchplate on reverse. Width >22mm. Length >31mm. 1st century AD. Same type in Chalon-sur-Saône Museum, Musée Denon, cf. Feugère 1977a, pl.14, no.85 (personal communication Michel Feugère, May 2013).
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 14th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swanton Abbott', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: KENT-2652D7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy La Tene brooch.
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-91FD05
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy La Tene III brooch. The brooch has an incomplete spring with an external chord held by a rearward hook at the top. The bow is comma shaped in profile. The pin and catchplate are missing.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-920913
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy La Tene III brooch. The brooch has an incomplete spring with an external chord held by a rearward hook at the top. The bow is comma shaped in profile. The pin and catchplate are missing.
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sleaford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A27CB4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age one-piece Colchester brooch, complete but distorted. Ten-coil spring, no wings. Round section bow. Slightly swollen moulding above catchplate. Kicked-forward foot. Both unusual features. Length (estimated) 30mm. Early 1st century.
Created on: Wednesday 26th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kelling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-13F813
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Iron Age Brooch. The bow & pin were cast all-in-one but the pin is now missing. Three loops of the spring remain with the chord running behind. The bow of the brooch is a flat elongated triangle decorated with two rows of small punched squares running lengthways down each side of the bow. The bow narrows to a point at the foot and the triangular catchplate with rounded pin rest is still intact. Brooches of this type are tpically dated from the 1st Century BC to the 1st Century AD and have been categorised as La Tene III type brooches. A Similar example can be see…
Created on: Monday 1st October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-A03748
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete late Iron Age brooch, La Tene III type. The brooch is made from one piece of copper alloy, and has three of the four or five spring turns remaining. The chord is internal and the pin is missing. The bow is arched to a right angle shortly after it leaves the spring. The face of the bow is rectangular and decorated with three vertical grooves. The lower bow tapers to a pointed foot with a catchplate on the reverse.
Created on: Monday 8th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HESH-B5A7C1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy one piece Colchester brooch of late Iron Age to Early Roman date (1-75 AD). The head of the brooch is relatively small and two small stumpy wings extend from either edge. The wings are short and solid with a semi-cylindrical cross section. The spring is formed from a coiled length of copper alloy wire which has been integrally cast with the body of the brooch. This wire extends from the reverse head of the brooch and has been coiled to form the spring which is formed from six turns and secured by an integral external chord to a rearward facing hook. The cas…
Created on: Tuesday 9th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bridgnorth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-63AB61
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and slightly corroded copper-alloy La Tène I Iron Age brooch (3rd-4th century BC). The brooch is broken at its head with the pin and half of the spring mechanism lost (H.: 18.3mm). However, in the extant pair of coils to one side is the remnant of the axis bar. From the head (Th.: 2.7mm) the bow curves through ninety degrees, expanding as it does so. Indeed, the profile of the bow is relatively angular compared with the more gradual arc of some. The bow reaches a maximum thickness of 6.15mm. It tapers into the foot which curves back on itself terminating in a circle…
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-898C22
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age/Romano-British copper alloy Colchester-type one-piece brooch, three coils of spring, and coiled pin surviving, catchplate missing. Round section bow. Wingspan 9.5mm, length 38mm. c 20-60AD.
Created on: Friday 19th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mundham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-CBA2F2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age/Early Roman brooch: An incomplete Colchester brooch, dating to the mid-1st century AD. What remains of the spring mechanism consists of two turns,while the bow is unusually straight, and is decorated with marginal lines and traces of fluting. The catchplate is trianagular, unperforated, and incomplete. The brooch is in good condition, but has a patchy green patina. L 59.2mm W 10.0mm Th 1.2mm Mass 2.7g.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-CBC282
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper-alloy Late Iron Age to early Roman Langton Down brooch. The brooch is incomplete as the lower bow and foot, as well as the pin are missing. The spring cover is cylindrical, and the bow flat-backed. The spring is bilaterally turned, with 4 coils visible to the left (right-hand side unclear). On the obverse of the brooch, there is a single transverse groove along the join between bow and spring cover, and 7 longitudinal grooves (characteristic of Langton Down type brooches)running down the length of the bow. This brooch fragment measures 17.9mm in surviving l…
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: SOM-CC69D6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Birdlip brooch of late Iron Age date. The brooch measures 54.2mm in length and weighs 12.4g. The integral sprung pin has broken off the oval upper bow. Part way down the bow there is a moulded transverse projecting disc and below this a further moulded projection which curves upwards and narrows to bluntly pointed terminal. Below this the bow narrows gradually into a plain rounded foot. On the back of the lower part of the bow is the incomplete flat catchplate, which has two cut-out sections. The brooch is similar to an example from Guildford, Surrey in Hattatt's 'V…
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Perrott', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-CCC612
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy Langton Down brooch of early Roman date. The brooch measures 40mm in length and weighs 5.5g. The measurement across the incomplete cylindrical wings is 16.6mm. They conceal the remains of the spring for the missing pin. The bow has a thin rectangular cross section which is consistent throughout its length. On the front is engraved decoration comprising a vertical dotted double linear border beside each edge with a wavy line and spirals within. On the back are the remains of the perforated catchplate. The brooch is similar to an unprovanced example in Hattatt's 'Visu…
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2007
Last updated: Monday 23rd March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Perrott', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-F64A88
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age brooch; Cast copper alloy simple fibula brooch of late Iron Age or early Roman date (1st century AD). The brooch has a coil of wire to hold the pin and which thereby forms the wings of the brooch. The bow of the brooch is a simple, unornamented band which tapers to the foot. There is no extant decoration. Pin and catchplate missing. Span (back of head to foot) 27.1mm, estimated length (if straightened) 52mm, width (at head) 10.3mm, thickness 3.1mm, weight 4.23g Ref: Hattatt, page 296 (fig 155), esp brooch 250
Created on: Wednesday 24th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-21A9A2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Iron Age Arched Bow brooch, La Tène I or III derivative. A copper-alloy brooch with an undecorated arched bow, a small catch-plate on the edge and a notched saucer shaped finial, facing forwards, at the terminal of the foot. The finial is turned over forming a loop. There are two coils of the spring remaining near the top left-hand side of the brooch. The other two coils of the spring on the left and the integral cast pin are missing, broken off and lost in antiquity. There is a large amount of corroded iron inside the coil. The metal is pitted and is a mid brownish-green colo…
Created on: Friday 26th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pocklington area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-5E26B0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron age/early Roman copper alloy le Tene III brooch, 51mm long, 26mm wide and 5mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 7.82grams. The object is missing its spring and pin. It has a sub circular section and is curved. Its lower edge flattens out into an incomplete catchplate, which has a triangular form and part of a circular hole visible near its broken edge. The upper part of the brooch narrows and it has snapped just where it begins to curl back on itself to form the spring. The brooch matches example 12 in Fig.149 in Hattatt's ancient brooches.
Created on: Monday 29th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.