Record ID: NMS-BEA416
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A demi-gros struck at Valenciennes for Margaret of Constantinople, countess of Hainaut between 1275 and 1280. The reverse has been fitted with a silver attachment; this is most likely to be a catchplate for a brooch but the angle at which it is affixed to the coin make it possible it represents one of a pair of grips by which the coin was fastened to a leather strap as a mount. This work would have been carried out soon after striking, at a period when, owing to the lack of large English silver coins, Continental coins of suitable size were being adapted into coin brooches.
Created on: Wednesday 18th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 18th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Buckenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-BF3250
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
The object is a silver penny of the Short Cross coinage which has been converted into a brooch. The coin was originally a silver penny of Short Cross class 5bi, issued in 1205 under King John. The moneyer was Pieres operating at Durham: the reverse inscription +PIERES.ON.DVR is virtually complete. The coin would have been produced to the established standard of the English medieval coinage, over 90% fine silver. The penny has been substantially altered and it could no longer be a functioning coin. The central section with the main design (king's head on the front, short double cross…
Created on: Wednesday 18th February 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd August 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yarburgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D26E35
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver annular brooch. Two ends of the loop, one of which is in the form of a very simple snake head with two pellets for eyes, are joined by being twisted around each other so that the snakes own tail is wrapped around it's neck. A separate piece of silver wrapped around the frame forms a second smaller snake twisted around the first on one half of the frame only. The outside edge is decorated with very worn stamped dots. Traces of gilding. Pin with transverse ridge. External diameter 17 - 19mm, weight 2.14g. Late 13th century.
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2009
Last updated: Monday 18th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crimplesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D2A387
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver annular brooch. Circular sectioned, four knops decorated with tiny closely spaced stamped annulets, restriction for (missing) pin. Slightly distorted. Similar to examples in Egan and Pritchard (2002, fig. 163 no. 1330 and 1333). Date: Medieval, 13th - 14th century. Dimensions: Original external diameter c. 22mm
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aldeby', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-D38330
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a silver annular brooch: truncated conical bezel with stubs of flat-section hoop. The setting is missing, but white fixative, probably calcium carbonate, is visible within. The brooch dates to the 13th-14th century. Dimensions: Hoop width 2.5 - 3mm. thickness <0.5mm. Basal diameter of bezel 7.5mm, top diameter 3mm, height 7.25mm. Weight 0.55g.
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2009
Last updated: Monday 20th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E8D072
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver Medieval annular brooch, oval frame, narrowed for pin to one side of which the frame is cable decorated with punched overlapping annulets along the spirals, other side of frame plain and lozengiform in section. Transverse ridge on sheet pin near frame. Cf. Egan and Pritchard, 2002, 249, fig. 160, no. 1310. Date: 13th - 14th century. Dimensions: Internal 14 x 12mm, external 18 x 15mm.
Created on: Friday 20th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E9DE96
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a silver annular brooch. About 1/3rd survives of a flattened oval sectioned angled frame, undecorated except for three transverse ridges next to constriction for (missing) pin, across which the frame is broken. Date: 13th - 14th century. Dimensions: Original external diameter c. 27.5mm, weighing 1g.
Created on: Friday 20th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beeston with bittering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-EF5524
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Date: 13th - early 14th century. A fragment of a medieval silver-gilt brooch, probably forming one terminal of a square- or lozenge-shaped brooch. The fragment is decorated with a blue-coloured stone, probably a sapphire, set into a raised, square collet, set diagonally to the terminal. Four surviving raised bosses with punched decoration adorn the outline of the terminal. The surface of the brooch is decorated with raised areas of punched decoration probably representing a fleur-de-lys. Beverley Nenk Dept Prehistory and Europe British Museum 15 July 2009
Created on: Friday 20th February 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Drayton Bassett CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-296CB3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a Medieval brooch, consisting of a wire frame, part twisted, and a floral mount soldered between the twisted and the blank sections. For a similar complete example found in the Watton area of Norfolk, see the Treasure Annual Report 2004, No 156. The brooch fragment is silver-gilt and dates from the late thirteenth or early fourteenth century.
Created on: Monday 23rd February 2009
Last updated: Monday 12th July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chippenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-2AB312
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure report from Dr Dora Thornton: Silver pin from a medieval annular brooch, shaft with tapered end and thistle-head like element at the other end where the loop would have encircled the brooch frame. Compare TAR 2005-6, no. 333 for a complete brooch in which both frame and pin are of this decoration, there dated 13th -14th Century, which seems right for this fragment.
Created on: Monday 23rd February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 9th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Church Stowe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-698273
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast cu-alloy pin, probably from an annular brooch (or buckle) dating from the medieval period, i.e. 13th-15th century. The pin is very worn and the surface extremely corroded. However, the loop which would have curved around the brooch/buckle frame is still intact at one end. The other end terminates in a curved point which would have rested on the opposite site of the circular frame.
Created on: Thursday 26th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cockermouth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-69BBA7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy annular brooch, probably 14th century. Circular sectioned circular ring with constriction to take the cast copper alloy pin. The loop of the pin is not joined at its outer end; globular collar below the loop, decorated with incised diagonal lines (two of which form a cross); the remainder of the pin is broken off after the collar. Fine dark green patina. Diameter 31.2mm, thickness (i.e. diameter of frame) 3.2mm, weight 5.38g.
Created on: Thursday 26th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tupholme', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-69B353
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy annular brooch, dating to the 13th - 15th Century. The brooch frame survives intact but the pin is missing. The brooch has been pressed from a sheet of copper alloy, so the raised design on the front in embossed on the reverse. The design alternates between parallel lines which have a central hole and four small raised pyramids. The holes are used to house iron rivets, which have a decorative function - as they have domed heads. Two are missing - making the holes visible. The reverse has two loops of folded over copper alloy sheet soldered to it. These…
Created on: Thursday 26th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aiskew', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-69DEB3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy miniature annular brooch with decorative frame13th/14th century. Frame made up of 6 oval swellings decorated with numerous irregularly placed incuse dots, with a narrowed transverse ridge between each (two ridges between the two swellings opposite the pin, forming a groove to take the pin); constriction to take the wire pin, which is broken off just after the loop. The frame is flat and undecorated on the reverse. Fine mid green patina. Diameter 16.3mm, thickness 2.8mm, weight 1.68g.
Created on: Thursday 26th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tupholme', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-69E1F7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy annular brooch. The brooch frame survives intact. The frame is circular with a flattened, circular section. There is a step in the frame, which represents the pin construction. The frame is decorated with a cinquefoil and a gilded surface. The pin survives, it has a collar. The metal is slightly pitted and it is a dark greenish-brown colour. Similar brooches can be seen in Egan and Pritchard, p251, Fig: 162.
Created on: Thursday 26th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aiskew', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-7AE165
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy open frame brooch of medieval date. The suggested date range for this common form of medieval brooch is c. 1250-c. 1350. For a parallel on the PAS database, see BH-DA3338. The frame is oval in plan with a convex upper surface and flat underside. The transverse pin (now bent) is looped around a pin constriction halfway down the side of the frame. It is made from a flattened and tapering length of copper-alloy wire. At the top of the brooch is an angled collet of truncated conical form. The recess at the top contains a corroded white glass paste. At the opposite end of …
Created on: Friday 27th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Offley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-7D07A7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval lead alloy (pewter) annular brooch with copper alloy pin dating AD1200-1400. The brooch has a flat frame with moulded inscription "IAVAIVAVIAVIAV" within a linear border. This is probably a much blundered version of AVE MARIA GRACIA PLENIA. The frame has a constriction to accommodate the pin. The pin is still present and is made from a piece of copper alloy wire wrapped around the frame and the other end sharpened to form a point. A similar brooch is illustrated in Egan & Pritchard (1991:254 no.1336) that one is from a context dated AD1230-1260. On that example the legend i…
Created on: Friday 27th February 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NCL-D1AF46
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hartlepool
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval brooch, circular in shape, with an open centre. The flattened frame of the brooch is inscribed on the front with: "AVE MARIA GRA . . ." (Hail, Mary, [full of grace]) On the reverse it is inscribed with the letters: "+IHESVS: NA: RE" This is to signify: "Jesus Nazarenus Rex [Judeorum]" (Jesus of Nazareth, King [of the Jews]) The brooch is silver, and dates from the fourteenth century.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2011
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: SF-D35187
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy buckle frame of Medieval date. The frame is D-shaped in plan with a flattened back and narrowed, offset bar, with small grooves and projecting knops at the point where the frame and bar meet. The outer edge of the frame expands to moulded decoration in the form of two rounded, globular lobes that create a moulded U-shaped pin slot and are flanked at each side by thin raised collars. The pin itself is formed from a flat sheet of copper alloy that is folded around the integral bar and tapers towards a point that projects beyond the exterior edge of the frame. This buckle m…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wortham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E73D12
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy annular brooch of Medieval date. It is complete with the exception of three of the applied glass 'gems' that are missing due to old breaks. The frame is flat, octagonal in plan and shows no surviving trace of decoration on either front or back faces. On the front face of the frame are four integrally cast and evenly spaced collets placed at the corners of the octagon, which are cylindrical in shape and project outwards from the frame. One is complete and contains an applied dark blue glass or paste 'gem', a second has traces of the 'gem', and the final two collects …
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wortham', grid reference and parish protected.