Record ID: SF110
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver brooch fragment; Colchester derivative rear hook type; upper half only, missing spring/pin; traces of copper alloy corrosion in the wings, either from solder or from a copper-alloy spring; broad hook with triple rib moulding; moulded wings with reserved 2 zigzag lines in middle of each; convex-backed bow, convex front with side facets; recessed central band with 2 zigzag lines forming a central lozenge design.
Created on: Monday 6th September 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ALDERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-B67599
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy Colchester Derivative Harlow Spring/double lug brooch dating to circa AD 43-70. It is T-shaped in plan. The wings are hemispherical and open at the reverse. On the reverse in the centre is a double lug with upper and lower circular apertures. Part of the spring mechanism is intact on one side of the double lug: the chord runs from the upper aperture and the axis bar the lower. The coil is survived on the same side by four loops. The pin is mssing. The front of the wings are plain The plano-convex in section bow tapers …
Created on: Monday 21st November 2022
Last updated: Friday 3rd February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Cotton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-EE1C67
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete enamelled copper alloy Roman plate brooch. less than half of the deep crescentic (or 'pelta') shaped plate survives. This is slightly concave, curving towards the reverse in profile. A short point projects from the centre of the upper edge and a wider, rounded section from the centre of the lower edge. Traces of enamelled decoration can be seen on the outer face, but this is hevaily corroded and now is largely retricted to a central longitudinal line of lozenges and a transverse row of cresents along the lower edge. The remains of a hinged double-lug pin fitt…
Created on: Thursday 7th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashfield cum Thorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8ACB1A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Langton Down brooch dating to AD 20-65. T-shaped in plan, the extant piece consists of the wings and upper bow. The wings are cylindrical with straight, solid edges. A longitudinal seam runs along the reverse of the wings.  In the centre is a now heavily abraded slot for the now missing hinged in to be housed within. A decorative incised groove is positioned on the top of the wings. The bow is straight, plano-convex in section and tapers gently into an old break. Separating the bow from the wings is crescentic groove…
Created on: Thursday 1st June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF2596
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver circular brooch; composite with back-plate which retains the stub of a copper alloy pin lug and a ?silver catch; obliquely beaded collar around outside edge; repousse front-plate dished with a central protruding hollow hemispherical boss; the dished section of metal surrounding the boss is decorated; immediately enclosing the boss is a further beaded collar bounded by the bottom edge of a continuous pattern of alternating sub-triangular 'petals' each with a central basal pellet, and linear strokes with pellet terminals adjacent to the outer edge of the plate.
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK NETTLESTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10987
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A possibly silver brooch, circular in shape measuring 17mm in diameter. The front face has a decorated boarder of horizontal lines, crosses and foliage. It also has circular knobs protruding from its edge, not all of which are now surviving. The centre of the front face is depresses and flat and it seems likely that something may have been inlaid in this central circle which is now missing. The back face is flat and undecorated. The pin is missing. This brooch is likely to be post-medieval and possibly 18th century in date.
Created on: Friday 4th April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'EASTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9D4FB1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete silver gilt annular post medieval probable brooch frame. Circular in shape measuring 14mm in external diameter and 8mm in internal diameter. The lower edge of the frame is set at c45 degrees from the inner edge of the frame. There is a small circular pin hole and the pin is now missing. The front face is decorated with filigree circles and small rounded knops.
Created on: Tuesday 16th November 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 19th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stonham Aspal', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E03F18
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete cast silver annular brooch dating to the Post-Medieval period, probably 17th century. It is circular in plan, with a slightly hollowed back and plano-convex section to the frame. In one edge of the latter is a constriction designed to house the pin, which is flanked on each side by a double transverse collar. The pin itself is plain and undecorated, having been wound around the constricted section. On the underside of the frame is a stamped maker's mark consisting of a rectangular panel containing the initials RW. Date: 17th century Dimensions: The brooch…
Created on: Monday 24th April 2017
Last updated: Sunday 29th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buxhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F73CA2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Silver annular brooch of medieval date in the form of two intertwined snakes. The oval frame is in the form of two snakes. One half of the frame is wider and hollow, as seen by a small area of damage on its underside, it is oval in section and the front face has small nicks covering it, presumably representing scales. This wider half terminates with a loop, the terminal of which curves away from the frame and is in the shape of a large snake's head, with small pointed ears, circular indentations for eyes and a groove for a mouth. The loop itself holds the silve…
Created on: Wednesday 9th June 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 4th July 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-C909F2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete silver annular brooch, circular in shape with pin surviving. The frame is gilt and has seven roughly oval-shaped openwork cells. On the front face each openwork cell has a small central transverse silver rectangular band between them with small oval projections above and below this with silver knops in their centres. Each oval-shape has a trefoil inside it; these are further decorated with silver knops on each foil. A pin loop replaces the top of one of the trefoils and the silver pin is attached via an open loop. There is a transverse band of decoration where the pin loop me…
Created on: Wednesday 6th October 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 12th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barking', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-6D7ED5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete silver gilt brooch roughly circular in shape with a projection from the outer edge in the form of two joined hands. The hands have grooves indicating the fingers and thumbs and are pressed tightly together as if in prayer. The frame has a flat back face and is triangular in section, the front face has inscribed possible letters along the outer edge, which all appear to resemble the letter 'I' the significance of which is unclear, there are two star motifs between these letters, one is opposite the constriction for the pin and the other opposite the clasped hands. The frame …
Created on: Thursday 14th October 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 13th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tuddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F67C32
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval silver-gilt annular brooch, D-shaped in section. It is cast with six evenly spaced collets which are missing their settings. Between each of the settings is a double transverse row of pellets. The pin is intact and seperately cast. It is roughly triangular in shape and has a transverse ridge where the loop meets the shaft and tapers to a point. The reverse is slightly concave and undecorated. Both faces of the brooch have traces of gilding. The brooch is c. 1300-1400 in date and is similar to other brooches from the period, for example from Mildenhall, Suffolk (2004 T176)…
Created on: Thursday 1st September 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 16th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Needham Market', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9FF011
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a silver Medieval annular brooch. It is approximately half of a flat circular brooch frame, incomplete due to old breaks. The frame has an external diameter of 18.18mm, is 3.08mm in width, c.0.6mm in thickness and weighs 0.37g. On one surface there is an engraved inscription in bold capital letters, reading AIDE MEI M (or possibly AEDE MEI M). The letters are based upon the outer edge of the brooch rather than the more normal inner. The reverse is undecorated. The inscription should probably be read as Help Me M[ary] in French. Annular brooches with inscriptions, f…
Created on: Monday 7th April 2008
Last updated: Monday 23rd May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-0296D6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete silver annular brooch with in situ silver pin and traces of gilding on both faces. The frame is circular in shape and has a rectangular pin constriction around which the pin is attached via an open loop. The pin has a rounded front face with a transverse ridge where the loop joins the shaft and tapers to a point. One half of the frame is rectangular in cross-section and its front face is decorated with two rows of tiny annulets either side of a central incised zigzag line. The other half of the frame is D-shaped in cross-section and has three evenly spaced proj…
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2006
Last updated: Monday 19th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF101
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt coin (nummular brooch); consists of a French silver maille tierce a l' o rond (a fraction of a Gros Tournois); OBV, cross + 'PHILIPP. VS REX/ BNDICTV.SIT.NOME.DNI; REV; T[....] CIVIS. The original coin is gilded on both sides, the back retains a silver lug soldered in place and the stub of a silver hinge.
Created on: Thursday 2nd September 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3526
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver annular brooch in the shape of an asymmetric heart. Near the apex, the left-hand side (as you look at it) has a small reverse curve so that the point is offset to the left. The frame is D-shaped in section, 2 mm wide and 1 mm thick. There is a pin constriction towards the top of the right-hand side, which retains a 22 mm long silver pin with similar D-shaped section and a tightly curled-over loop. Although the shape is unusual (and rather sentimental-looking?) the brooch must be medieval in date because of the method of constructing and attaching the pin.
Created on: Friday 22nd September 2000
Last updated: Friday 5th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WEETING WITH BROOMHILL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4818
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver annular brooch. The frame is circular, 22 mm in diameter, and circular in section, nearly 2 mm in diameter. There is no decoration on the frame and it is fractured at one point. The pin is also silver, and oval in section. The loop has been made by splitting the end of the pin in half down the middle and bending both halves around the frame. One half has been cut off short so that they overlap on one face but not the other. On the overlapping half, halfway down the pin is a tiny flattened area with 5 transverse ribs. This could be decoration, but is so small and insignificant (…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 17th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ORFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5798
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny gilded silver annular brooch, only 13 mm in diameter. Circular and basically D-shaped in section, it has ten small bosses evenly set around the circumference, each stamped with a rosette made up of six pellets around a central pellet. Between two of the bosses is a pin constriction, but the pin is now missing. Flat undecorated reverse.
Created on: Tuesday 5th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK SHIMPLING', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF6914
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small silver annular brooch. The frame is circular, 17 mm in diameter and just over 2 mm wide, and is flat on one face and slightly rounded on the other. It is decorated on the rounded face with two lines of zigzag engraving forming a row of lozenges; the engraving is made by rocking the tool very slightly to and fro. There is a pin constriction on which a silver pin survives; this has a transverse ridge at the junction between the wrapped-around loop and the tapering shaft.
Created on: Thursday 27th September 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CAMBRIDGESHIRE FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AD67E5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete silver annular brooch with complete attached silver pin. The frame is circular and has a circular cross-section; it has three evenly spaced globular knobs. Each of these is decorated with circular punch marks. The frame has a rectangular pin constriction; the pin is attached to this via an open loop. Where the loop of the pin joins the shaft there is another globular knob again decorated with circular punch marks. The pin tapers to a point. Discussion: This brooch is very similar to other examples including another silver one from Great Finborough, Suffolk, see…
Created on: Monday 27th November 2006
Last updated: Monday 19th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Diss', grid reference and parish protected.