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Record ID: SF-2F9C92
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy possible buckle or brooch frame, of medieval date. Oval in shape measuring 16.74mm by 15.27mm externally and 11.41mm by 11.23mm internally. One face has three constrictions, one of which has corroded iron adhering to it. An iron pin may therefore have been attached to this constriction allowing the frame to be used as a brooch or even a buckle.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-E3CB63
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy annular brooch of medieval date. The circular frame measures 15.85mm externally and 12.18mm internally. The frame has an oval section and a constriction around which the open loop of a copper-alloy pin is attached, the pin tapers to a point. Traces of gilding can be seen on the frame.
Created on: Friday 6th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-E9EDE2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval brooch, with an annular circular frame and an in situ copper-alloy wire pin, attached to the frame via an open loop. The frame has no constriction and measures 15.77mm externally and 10.39mm internally.
Created on: Monday 17th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lakenheath', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-FFC782
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy medieval annular brooch frame with attached copper-alloy pin. The frame is circular in shape and measures 15.06mm in external diameter and 11.30mm internally. The frame has a pin constriction and the pin is attached via an open loop and tapers to a point.
Created on: Friday 30th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lakenheath', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-6FC380
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy medieval annular brooch with a finger-ring style setting. It is a plain annular frame with a diameter of 21.82mm, and protrudes at one point to form a bezel as for a finger-ring, which has an empty oval-shaped setting. This is set at ninety degrees to the pin, which is attached to a constriction on the frame and has a patch of corrosion at its centre. The brooch frame shows sign of wear on its underside. The pin measures 23.29mm in length, and the brooch weighs 2.72g. A similar example is illustrated in Hattatt, no.1339A, and dates to the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries.
Created on: Tuesday 28th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-FE12F1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval annular brooch fragment. It is a segment of a brooch which is incomplete due to old breaks, and is broken off at one terminal across the pin constriction. The fragment measures 27.57mm in diameter and is 2.8mm in width, weighing 1.85g. The underside is flat, and the upper surface has four evenly spaced raised settings, now empty but which would have held glass or paste. There is a slight decorative ridge on the brooch between each setting. Annular brooches of this type are likely to date to the fourteenth century.
Created on: Wednesday 10th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

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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.

Record ID: SF-9E49B2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Medieval annular brooch. It is approximately triangular in shape, with rounded corners. The upper surface has a raised band 3.4mm in width, and is surrounded by a flange at its base, creating an overall width of 4.25mm. The band has six cells evenly spaced around the perimeter, at 7.45mm from each other. these are oval to circular in shape, and c.4.8mm in diameter. Two of the settings are void and the other four have remains of white paste within the cells. The band is also decorated between the settings, with borders along both sides, of tiny circles. A circular perfora…
Created on: Monday 6th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ixworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-817AB8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy annular brooch of Medieval date. It is square in section with a short rectangular constriction at one side for the now missing pin. Half of the frame to one side of the constriction is twisted to create a cabled pattern, whilst the other half remains undecorated. All surfaces have suffered from extensive post-depositional wear and are pitted with pale blue-green copper alloy corrosion. The brooch measures 23.11mm in external diameter, 17.66mm in internal diameter, 2.35mm in thickness, and weighs 1.84g. This brooch frame is similar to an example published from Med…
Created on: Monday 11th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Arwarton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-17DCA6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy incomplete annular brooch pin. The pin is rectangular in plan with a sub-circular cross section. There is a small moulded rectangular collar where the pin joins the attachment loop. There is a break across the end of the pin which is slightly worn. It is 43.79mm long, 12mm wide across the loop and 4.36mm wide across the pin. It weighs 4.35 grams. It has a mid-green patina and has a slightly pitted surface.
Created on: Monday 18th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-4E4121
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy brooch of Medieval date. It has a flat, hexagonal frame that is trapezoidal in section with bevelled edges and moulded decoration on the front face. This comprises inner and outer borders containing a single row of pellets. To one side there is a rectangular notch from which hinges a separately cast copper-alloy wire pin. The entire object measures 21.65mm in length, 24.17mm in width, 1.64mm in thickness and weighs 2.14g. This is a brooch of Medieval date similar to other examples recorded through the PAS (see for example BERK-CA6CA5, GLO-FB99E2 or NARC-DFA0E…
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 7th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Freckenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-695403
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy annular brooch. The ring is plain and undecorated. The pin is formed from a sheet of copper alloy folded around the frame. It is 21.90mm in diameter, 1.69mm thick and weighs 1.76 grams.
Created on: Monday 31st January 2011
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-158333
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Medieval or Post-Medieval brooch fragment. It may be part of an annular or penannular brooch, consisting of a curving part of the brooch, oval in section with a lozenge-shaped terminal. The terminal is flat, 3.45mm in thickness and decorated on one side with a series of parallel grooves and ridges, the outer rows having short transverse lines. The arm of the brooch measures 4.73mm in width adjacent to the terminal, and broadens to 5.86mm at the opposite, incomplete terminal. Overal it measures 41.81mm in length, the lozenge being 10.69mm in length and width, and weigh…
Created on: Tuesday 8th February 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 15th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mickfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C0F206
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy brooch of Medieval date. It has an openwork lozenge shaped frame that is flat and rectangular in section. At one corner there is a rectangular constriction around which hinges a separately cast copper-alloy pin that is rectangular in form and section with raised collar at hinge end and incomplete looped terminal. The front face of the brooch has incised decoration comprising an uneven border and foliate(?) motifs of uncertain form. The back face also carries incised decoration formed from a simple single, continuous wavy line. Thsi brooch measures 34.08mm in l…
Created on: Wednesday 16th February 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D1D6C0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Medieval brooch. It has a plan-convex, annular frame 19.4mm in external diameter, 14.45mm internal diameter, with a constriction around which the pin is folded. the pin is formed from sheet copper alloy, and terminates with a point. The frame has decorative elements on opposite sides, equidistant from the pin constriction. One of these is an upright collet, angled outwards and containing a whitish substance, which may be solder for fixing a stone or glass gem. The other is a protrusion, 7.65mm in length, oval-shaped and also plano-convex, and decorated with a long…
Created on: Tuesday 1st March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 18th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ixworth', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-627C71
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy annular brooch frame of Medieval date. It is circular in form and section with a pin constriction at one side, missing the pin due to old breaks. The frame is undecorated and measures 11.54mm in external diameter, 1.59mm in thickness, and 0.39g in weight. This is probably a simple annular brooch frame of Medieval date similar to larger examples from London (Egan and Pritchard, 1991: no. 1307). It is of probable 13th-14th century AD date.
Created on: Tuesday 8th March 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 8th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-81FCA8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy annular brooch of Medieval date. It is oval shaped ins ection with a rectangular constriction at one side around which hinges the separately cast copper-alloy pin. Ths is flat, rectangular in form and tapers to a rounded tip. The pin is slighlty bent at its centre probably as a result of use wear. The front face of the brooch has punched decoration comprising a row of annulets or crescents. It measures 18.96mm in diameter, 1.66mm in thickness, and weighs 1.92g. This is a Medieval annular brooch similar to other recorded examples (e.g. NLM-045D07, NMS-9B7240 and …
Created on: Friday 15th April 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 31st August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shotley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-24BFA1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly a damaged and straightened medieval cast copper alloy annular brooch. Formed of a bar with a circular cross section, with four retangular bosses spaces regularly along ite length; there is a worn break at both ends, immediately after a boss. The frame is bent two thirds of the way along its length. The bar is undecorated except for four small depressed circles arranges in a lozenge on each surface of the four bosses. The bar has a diameter of 5.61mm. The bosses are aproximately 10mm long and 6.5mm wide. It weighs 33.38 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 18th May 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 4th January 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-C65E83
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval (AD 1200-1400) incomplete cast copper alloy annular brooch. Aproximately one third of the frame survives, with a worn break at each end. It has a 'D' shaped cross section. There are opposing oblique lines on the surface, creating a zigzag design. The fragment is 32.04mm long. It is 4.97mm wide, 2.83mm thick and weighs 2.46 grams.
Created on: Thursday 1st July 2010
Last updated: Monday 19th July 2010
Spatial data recorded.