Record ID: ESS-066365
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age to early Roman (c. 25-75 AD) incomplete Langton Down variant brooch. The wings are curved to encase the now missing spring mechanism. The bow is incomplete, tapering to a worn break. The surface of the brooch is extremely worn. The wings are 19.08mm long, the brooch is 18.34mm long and weighs 3.13 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: ESS-06CCB1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age to early Roman (20BC-40AD) copper alloy one piece Nauheim derivative brooch. The spring is incomplete, with only part of one coil surviving. The undecorated bow is circular is cross section, tapering in thickness towards the foot where a triangular catchplate extends from the reverse. The brooch has an olive green patina. It is 40.21mm long and weighs 1.79 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: ESS-06D207
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age to early Roman (20BC-40AD) copper alloy one piece Nauheim derivative brooch. The brooch has a bilateral spring of four coils, broken before the pin extension. The undecorated bow is narrowed, with a flattened ‘D’ shaped cross section and it tapers towards the foot where a triangular catchplate extends from the reverse. The brooch has a mid to light green patina. It is 40.61mm long, 9.37mm wide across the spring coil, 4.07mm wide at the top of the bow, decreasing to 1.70mm thick. It weighs 2.85 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-2C9A84
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A one-piece Colchester brooch of late Iron Age/early Roman date. The iron spring and pin and catchplate are missing. The bow is long and slender with a circular section.
Created on: Thursday 6th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-42B605
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman brooch; incomplete cast copper alloy Colchester one-piece brooch of 1st century date. The brooch has a long, simple, tapering bow and the remains of tiny, flat wings. The line of the catchplate can be seen at the back of the foot of the brooch and the remains of the pin spring are present behind the head. The brooch is very abraded and has been bent round into a curve. Length 36.9mm, width 8.8mm, thickness 5.3mm, weight 8.71g Hattatt ‘A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt’s Ancient Brooches’ (pp. 296, fig. 155, no. 249)
Created on: Friday 7th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMS-974774
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age/Romano British one-piece Colchester-type brooch, spring, pin, end of one wing and catchplate missing. The bow is flat and narrows to the sharply pointed foot. A piece of sheet has carefully folded around the bow near its upper end, apparently as decoration. Length 48mm. Wingspan (estimated) 14mm. c.20 – c.60 AD.
Created on: Tuesday 11th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Seething', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-C25443
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
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 complete. 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 survives intact. The end turn extends 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 entire length of the brooch. The bro…
Created on: Thursday 13th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newbald', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-2B6084
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a Langton Down brooch of Late Iron Age to Early Roman date (AD 25 - AD 60). Length: 12.0mm; width: 21.9mm and 9.0mm thick. Weight: 7.29g. The fragment consists of the incomplete cylindrical wings and a small portion of the upper part of the bow. At each end of the wings there is an old ragged break. The wings are filled with iron corrosion indicating that the axis bar was composed of iron. At the centre of the wings there is a rectangular slot for the hinged pin. The pin is largely missing. However, a small portion of the copper alloy hinge end of the pin survives with…
Created on: Tuesday 18th 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: SUR-2CD136
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Iron Age cast copper alloy La Tene brooch, probably type 1B dating to the period 400 to 275 BC. The head of the brooch originally consisted of four coils to the spring with two loops located on either side of the bow. Only two survive. The bow is curved in section and leaf-shaped in plan. The upper surface of the bow is decorated with two ribs and grooves which form a lentoidal shape. The crests of the surface decoration have a central valley creating twin bands to each. The underside of the bow is plain.The end of the foot, catchplate and toe are missing from an old bre…
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd October 2013
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Record ID: DOR-41F0C6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy La Tène I brooch. A large one piece bow brooch. At the head is the spring of coiled wire and its external chord. This was drawn from the main body of the brooch. Below this the brooch expands into D-sectioned arching bow, dropping to a tapered foot with a hooked catchplate to the right side. Beyond this the foot continues into a backward hooked tail with a knopped "snake-head" terminal. There are cast decorative ridges on the tail before the expanded terminal. The pin is not attached to the spring, but has been added to the brooch by curling it over the hollow, tubu…
Created on: Wednesday 19th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WMID-5918F1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Telford and Wrekin
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Iron Age cast copper-alloy La Tene I brooch. Length: 37.7mm, width: 7.0mm; measurement from front to reverse: 17mm; mass: 6.1g. The brooch consists of a bow which is C shaped in profile with the remains of the foot at one end. A bilateral spring would have been at the other end but this is missing. The bow has a D shaped section, and tapers from the centre to the ends. In plan, the foot is angled to one side slightly, with a slight vertical groove, possibly caused wear on this side. The brooch is decorated with a line of small raised rectangles within a median linear…
Created on: Thursday 20th November 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd November 2016
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Record ID: SUR-5A47F6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The bow and part of the catchplate from a one piece brooch of Late Iron Age date. The bow is of strip form and there is a ribbon of punched squares which runs centrally along the spine.
Created on: Thursday 20th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMS-6BDF61
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Iron Age/Romano British Colchester type one-piece brooch, with forward-facing hook, spring missing, short wings, tapering oval-sectioned bow with bent terminal and remains of catch-plate, 11 x 57mm. c.20-60 AD.
Created on: Friday 21st November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Redgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-D541E1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy one piece Colchester brooch length 36mm, width 8mm, thickness 3mm, weight 2.7g. The bow is comma shaped in profile and circular in cross-section. Incomplete spring with a rearward hook at the top, short rectangular wings flank the head. The catchplate on the reverse is missing. 25-60AD
Created on: Wednesday 26th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Taynton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E77CD5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age Birdlip brooch, spring, pin, most of upturned “beak”, lower bow/foot missing, rear of head damaged. Length 35mm. Head width 9mm. Early to mid 1st century. Brooches of this type, named after a silver example found in a grave in Birdlip, Gloucestershire, are not common in Norfolk, with finds from Barton Bendish, Burlingham, Pentney, and Quidenham.
Created on: Thursday 27th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bodham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-55D968
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Late Iron Age to early Roman Colchester one-piece brooch dating from c. AD 20-60. It is very worn and now only consists of the forward-facing hook (spring missing), extremely short wings and the tapering oval-sectioned bow with bent terminal. There are no remains of the catch-plate or any moulded decoration.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd December 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 16th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Braintree', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-6BF962
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged and incomplete cast copper-alloy Colchester brooch dating to the late Iron Age to early Roman period (c. 25 - c. 60 AD). A one-piece example, it retains its rearward facing hook at the top of the head, although this has been bent round on itself and also to one side. The hook holds the external chord of the spring. On the side from which the spring emerges three-and-a-half coils survive. On the other side the axis bar/spring has been broken and twisted; the pin has been lost. The wing of this side has been bent round on itself. The other perpendicular wing is sub-rectangular …
Created on: Wednesday 3rd December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thruxton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-X0007X
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Iron Age Colchester type one-piece brooch, with forward-facing hook, spring missing, short damaged wings, tapering oval-sectioned bow, lower end missing. >12 x >40mm. c.20-67 AD.
Created on: Friday 5th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-911848
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron Age brooch; cast copper alloy La Tene III style brooch of the late Iron Age (1st century BC or early 1st century AD). The brooch has a large, prominent pin spring, with the stubby remains of the pin itself extending from the back. The head of the brooch extends forwards horizontally from the last curl of the pin spring. It is moulded with tiny, flat protrusions to either side, reminiscent of vestigial wings. The bow curved downwards at a roughly right angle and is a long, simple, tapering strip which comes to a point at the foot. There are traces of the position of the catchplate …
Created on: Friday 5th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: IOW-EDF288
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy fragment of a Leontomorphe variant of the Rosette type brooch. Late Iron Age to Early Roman (AD 30 – AD 60). Length: 18.1mm; width: 8.6mm. Weight: 2.24g. This fragment consists of the bow and a small portion of the foot-plate which appears to be soldered on to the bow. The front of the bow is in the form of two forward projecting mouldings divided by a minor horizontal rib. These projections represent a lion shape although it is somewhat debased. However, a snout and mouth are distinguishable. The rear face of the bow is flat. The fragment has a mid-green pa…
Created on: Tuesday 9th December 2008
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.