Record ID: SWYOR-E5DA21
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy annular brooch possibly dating from the Medieval period, probably 1200 - 1400 AD. It is ovoid in shape with six raised circular settings on the front that would have at one point held decorative stones. Two still contain white paste. There is a hole in the frame for the pin, but it is now missing. It has a length of 25.03mm, width 20.93mm, thickness 2.42mm, weight 3.03g. A similar example but round is SF-53CDA2 on the PAS database.
Created on: Tuesday 8th June 2010
Last updated: Sunday 7th June 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-F8E084
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable copper alloy brooch probably dating from the late medieval period. The brooch is annular but with a lozenge shaped frame, with concave sides. Each side is decorated with a projecting knop in the centre, and the corners are trilobite except for one which has a short bar and is probably where the missing pin hinged. The frame is bevelled on the front and flat on the back. It is 18.7mm long, 16mm wide and 2.4mm thick It weighs 1.01gm. A brooch of similar shape is BUC-065302.
Created on: Monday 21st June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
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Record ID: SWYOR-033053
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast, lead alloy, openwork artefact, possibly a brooch, of uncertain date. It is oval in shape and is pierced with an openwork lattice design. There is a central, raised dot and a series of fourteen raised dots spaced equidistantly around the rim. On the reverse, at one end of the oval is a small, integral loop. At the other end are the remains of what might possibly have been a catchplate. There is no pin remaining. It is 35.2mm long, 31.6mm wide and 6mm thick. It weighs 11.48gm. It has become slightly distorted over time. There are some annular brooches which seem similar on page …
Created on: Friday 16th July 2010
Last updated: Sunday 7th June 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-1DFAD6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
British Museum Curatorial Report: Silver gilt nummular brooch Date: 12th century Description: A medieval silver coin which has been adapted for use as a brooch. The coin is a silver pfennig of Friedrich I, Archbishop of Cologne (1100-1131), reference: Hävernick, Die Mūnzen von Köln, no. 456 (identified by BJC from images, so subject to confirmation). The coin legends are mostly illegible, although the O of COLONIA (Cologne) is visible on one side. This side shows a cathedral façade and it is this side that was designed to be seen after conversion into a brooch. …
Created on: Thursday 16th September 2010
Last updated: Thursday 11th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rauceby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-2F38B5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy annular brooch frame which is 39.8mm long, 37.2mm wide and 3.7mm thick. The frame has a constriction where the pin would have been attached (it is now missing) and a groove opposite acting as a pin rest. The pin rest side of the frame is wider than the rest – it gradually tapers towards the constraiction, which is rounded. The frame is decorated with an incised border and further incised lines which are short and curved. These may have been intended to hint at lettering to the illiterate, or could be purely decorative. Similar brooches are discussed in Egan and Pritcha…
Created on: Tuesday 20th May 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-11B816
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Medieval annular brooch. It consists of six turrets spaced evenly around one face of the circular frame, giving it a crown like appearance. Each turret is filled with a white material. It measures 21.9mm diameter x 4.53mm, weighing 2.95g. It has a dark grey hue with a green patina. The frame is constricted for the pin which is missing. It dates to the 13th-15th century AD, and has a parallel in 'A visual Guide to Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches' (p.383, fig.1718).
Created on: Friday 5th September 2008
Last updated: Saturday 9th February 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-F2B4B1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver gilt annular brooch fragment dating from the Medieval period, probably the 14th century. The fragment consists of a rectangular cross-section frame embellished with a beaded knop and a collet. The collet is linked to the knop by a forking branch which has a trefoil terminal resting against the collet. There is a scar on the other side of the collet where a matching feature would have been attached. There is white paste in the hollow top of the collet, but the gem or glass setting is missing. A very similar and more complete example is GLO-F97DA4 (2012 T386).
Created on: Monday 16th December 2013
Last updated: Sunday 31st January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-A217F6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy annular brooch of Medieval date, about AD 1250 - 1350. It has a frame of sub-rectangular section, with a slightly bevelled upper side and a concave underside. The outer edge is decorated with a series of small, U shaped grooves. There is no other decoration. The flat, copper alloy pin remains in place, looped round the constriction. The brooch is 16.8mm in diameter and 4.8mm thick. It weighs 1.68gm. Similar brooches are illustrated in Egan and Pritchard, 1991, Dress Accessories, Medieval Finds from Excavations in London, pages 249 - 253.
Created on: Wednesday 5th November 2014
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-A54F4C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Medieval annular brooch dating from about AD 1200 - 1450. It has a constriction for the pin (which is missing) and moulded beaded decoration on either side of the constriction, and on the area where the pin would rest. The metal has a grey patina. The brooch is 22mm diameter, 2.6mm thick and 2.03g.
Created on: Wednesday 5th November 2014
Last updated: Sunday 10th March 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-1D2879
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver gilt Medieval incomplete pin from a brooch dating from about AD 1250 - 1350. The pin is D shaped in section with a rounded upper face and tapers towards the point, though it is broken with only the loop end surviving. At the attachment end is a wide transverse collar decorated with a groove flanked by a ridge on each side, and then the attachment loop is also decorated with a longitudinal central grove and faint transverse groove son each side giving a double stranded beaded or ropework effect. The attachment loop is formed from a rectangular sectioned extension from the pin,…
Created on: Monday 16th February 2015
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-2AF884
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a medieval gilt silver annular framed brooch dating from AD 1200 - 1350, consisting a small part of the frame with, attached by solder, a flat plate in the form of an elaborate quatrefoil. The frame fragment is round-sectioned. The breaks are not recent. The diameter of brooch is not calculable. The surviving fragment is 11.6mm long, 8.3mm wide and 2.8mm thick. 0.75g. The frame is 2.5mm wide and 2mm thick. Compare NMS-AC9E69 (2014 T514) where the author notes that: "Brooches with round-sectioned frames and four applied plates are not exceptional, though at one time…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 28th June 2016
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Record ID: SWYOR-3B77CD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a medieval silver gilt annular brooch dating from c. AD 1300-1400. The fragment comprises a conical collet, with an oval recess at its apex, now containing soil. Foliate decoration in the form of two transverse leaves arranged in a 'V' joins the collet close to the apex. These are in turn joined to a third leaf whose stem extends downwards at an angle of c. 45 degrees to join with a second curved projection extending from the base of the cone. After this intersection the brooch terminates in a worn break. A second worn break is present at the base of the cone on the oppo…
Created on: Thursday 24th March 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2016
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Record ID: SWYOR-3316AD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval gold annular and inscribed brooch dating from AD 1250 - 1350. The frame is circular and is decorated at the top with a pair of clasped hands. These are moulded, but they curve in the same orientation as the frame of the brooch. At the right hand and bottom cardinal points are flower motifs; one four petalled flower at each point. The petals are concave. The left hand cardinal point is occupied by the constriction for the pin. The flat upper face of the frame is inscribed: "+ IO - SVI - DE . D - RVE" (Translated by John Cherry as Ie Sui De Drue, meaning 'I am [a brooch/gi…
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-788773
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval to medieval lead-alloy shield brooch dating from AD 1050 - AD 1175, of Weetch type 26. The brooch is an elongated drop shape, or kite shaped. The outer face is decorated with five pellets, the centre one larger, equi-distantly spaced, forming a saltire with a pellet in the centre. The central pellet is surrounded by a ring of smaller pellets, with similar arcs round each of the other main pellets. There is a vertical band of decoration in the form of a column of pellets with a high-relief double strand either side. There is a matching horizontal band crossing through…
Created on: Monday 17th June 2019
Last updated: Saturday 28th March 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-1E5464
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval delicate annular brooch with eight raised bosses round the frame. One of the areas between the bosses is worn, suggesting that this is where the now missing pin was attached. The brooch would probably have been gilded, but only traces of corroded brown gilt now survive. The hoop is 1mm thick between the bosses, and the bosses are about 3.8mm wide. The overall diameter is 18.1mm. The brooch dates from the 13th - 14th century and can be compared to NMS-FF2792 and SF-C45D51.
Created on: Thursday 15th March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2012
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Record ID: SWYOR-101D47
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, copper alloy annular brooch of Medieval date, probably about AD 1200 - 1400. The frame is flat and is sub-circular on the inner face, but on the outer edge it is scalloped between six large, but still flat, projecting knops. Each projection is birfurcated at the outer end, each of the two terminals on each bifid knop having grooves suggesting moulding as a fleur-de-lis. Traces of gilding survive in the central groove of each knop. The space where a seventh similar knop would fit is occupied by a constriction for the (now missing) pin. There is no evidence of a pin rest.…
Created on: Tuesday 20th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 3rd May 2018
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Record ID: SWYOR-E682D1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy annular brooch of the Medieval period, dating from about AD 1200-1400. The brooch is complete, though damaged and bent out of shape. The hoop is made from simple copper alloy wire of circular section (1.7mm diameter), and has sprung apart in one place. A groove along most of the inside of the hoop may be wear from the pin, or may be a detail of construction. There is o decoration on the frame. The pin is also made from copper alloy wire (1.3mm diameter), and tapers to a point. It is bent into a loop to attach it to the frame and it moves freely. It is decorate…
Created on: Thursday 9th January 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 13th May 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-5FA830
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gilded copper alloy Medieval annular brooch dating from about AD 1200 - 1400. Only about a third of the circular frame survives. The brooch has a circular sectioned frame and is decorated with evenly spaced bulbous knops of which three are present, each of which is decorated with rows of beading. Also present are two separately cast lozenge shaped panels bearing foliate-style decoration of eight petalled flowers on the upper surface. These panels mounted on the top of the frame, positioned alternately with the knops. The frame is broken across the constricted area where the pin woul…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 25th January 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-5AE917
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy, annular brooch dating from AD1200-1400. The frame is oval in section and of varying thickness. It is narrowed to take a copper alloy pin, which is missing. The outer face is decorated with a large number of closely spaced transverse grooves. The brooch has a patchy, light green patina. It is 26.6mm in diameter and 3mm thick. It weighs 2.69gm. A similar brooch is illustrated in Griffiths, Philpott and Egan, 2007, Meols: The Archaeology of the North Wirral Coast, plate 25, number 1702.
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2012
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Record ID: SWYOR-7591D1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small, cast copper-alloy annular brooch of medieval date (about the 13th century AD ). It is broadly square (with rounded corners) in form. It is formed of seven oval lobes flanked by moulded transverse ridges connected together (and integral) to form the frame. The frame has a D shaped cross section: the upper surface is domed and the lower surface is flat. Located between two of the lobes is a pin constriction with the remains of a copper alloy pin looped round it. There is no evidence of a pin rest. The surface of the brooch is corroded and pitted. It has a green and brown …
Created on: Tuesday 12th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 12th June 2012
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