Record ID: ESS-4A5987
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
10th century lead disc brooch. This brooch is flat and circular with a diameter of 30.02mm. It is 1.58mm thick and weighs 10.85g. The front of the brooch is decorated with five integrally moulded bosses, one in the centre of the disc, with the other four evenly spaced around. They survive remarkably intact to a height of approximately 3.5mm. Decoration consists of moulded raised lines, approximately 4mm long, that run around the entire circle of the brooch, roughly at right angles to the edge. Similar raised lines also run out from the central boss in a crude starburst pattern. The…
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rayne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9878
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A lead brooch, circular in shape with a diameter of 23mm. There is a central circular low flat-topped boss on the front, 12mm in diameter; the boss has a scratched X on it, and around the edge of the disc there are further transverse scratched grooves. On the reverse, part of the pin lug and the catch survive; the pin lug is parallel to the edge of the brooch, and the turned-over catchplate is perpendicular to this. This brooch is of Weetch type 13, but as it was originally recorded as medieval it was not included in Weetch's catalogue. It is unusual as being the only Weetch type 1…
Created on: Thursday 28th November 2002
Last updated: Friday 7th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS542
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
LS Fragment of a lead alloy disc brooch with one small arc of the outer edge surviving. On the reverse unevenness of the surface under & around a pin loop (which is in the form of an arch set transversely to the line of the pin) shows that it has been added to the brooch. A small fragment of the iron pin remains within the loop.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK OXBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS701
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon lead fragment (at least 20 x 37mm) of model for production of cruciform brooch, narrow head plate, fragments of side wings, facetted bow with median groove, fragment of vertical lug for spring and pin on reverse.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK OXBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS702
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon lead fragment (15 x at least 29mm) of model for production of cruciform brooch, foot only with triple transverse ribs and prominent eyes above break where terminal (?nostrils) missing.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK OXBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7796
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead nummular brooch, complete but crumpled and cracked. 31 mm in diameter, it is decorated with concentric rings of ornament. In the very centre is a relief cross with expanded arms, with a small boss in the middle. Around this is a ring of ladder pattern, and then a ring of pellets and another ring of ladder pattern. On the reverse is a transverse pin lug and a catchplate, both of similar size and both squashed nearly flat; the pin when horizontal would run along the same orientation as the central cross. The design of nummular brooches, as the name suggests, is ultimately based on …
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOMERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7561
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete lead brooch. It is flat and circular, 39 mm in diameter, and about half is missing. There is a border consisting of two rings of pellets, which surrounds a relief quatrefoil. Inside this is another quatrefoil, and then a central relief circle. Only one of the foils survives complete, and this has a large pellet between the central circle and the line of the inner quatrefoil. Just inside the border, in some places cutting through the outer quatrefoil, is a ring of small circular perforations. On the reverse is a transverse pin lug, now squashed flat. The design of this br…
Created on: Monday 10th December 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WESTERFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7482
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead disc brooch, 28 mm in diameter. It is flat and has relief decoration of a double-strand border around a Jellinge-style animal. The animal begins with a head with a round eye and open bulbous jaws. A long double-strand tongue emerges to interlace over the body and under one leg. The animal is twisted into a reversed-S shape, with an angular junction between the long curving neck and the body which runs across the centre of the brooch; both neck and body are transversely ribbed with a contour line running along the back. From the angular junction emerges a transversely ribbed forel…
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GOODERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-83AD38
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A lead disc brooch of late early-medieval to medieval date (c. 11th century). The front bears a cast design in low relief dominated by a cruciform flower formed of four lentoid petals around a central pellet. Each petal is raised more than the rest of the design, which includes cross-hatching between them. This is contained within a double border filled with transverse ribs giving a laddered design. On the reverse is a central casting seam with a large U-shaped loop towards one end and a small curled C-shaped catch-plate towards the other; the pin is missing. It measures 20.33mm …
Created on: Tuesday 15th September 2015
Last updated: Monday 4th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AE4D73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead disc brooch of Weetch type 4.C and late Anglo-Saxon date. It is missing its pin due to old breaks but is otherwise intact. The brooch is flat, disc shaped in form and with moulded decoration on the front face. This comprises a central voided arcuate cross, so made up of four back-to-back curved ridges, all now worn but with pellet terminals at each end of the arms. A larger pellet or boss is at the centre of the cross. The cross is contained within a border formed from a double band of pellets. The flat back face of the brooch is undecorated but has an integrally…
Created on: Thursday 18th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-120845
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead brooch of Weetch's type 13, defined as having a raised central field. It is of late Early Medieval date, probably 11th century, and is unusual in that it appears to be the first known to be decorated with a single face mask. It is missing much of the outer edge and pin lug due to old breaks, now worn. The flat outer edge is decorated with beaded decoration and there is a circumferential groove before a central, circular flat-topped raised boss. The outer edge of the boss is decorated with a circumferential border containing diagonal grooves. Within this is a cent…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-935975
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval lead disc brooch fragment. The decoration is concentric and consisted of a ring of pellets and two plain, raised rings. What is now the outer edge appears toothed and the central area was raised, as is seen on the lead brooch from Ketsby. (Leahy, 2007, Fig. 80, 6). A projection on the back may represent part of the pin mechanism. These brooches, when decorated, can be shown to be tenth-eleventh century.Length 17.0mm, Width 11.2mm, Thickness 3.5mm, Section 1.4mm, Mass 1.64g.
Created on: Sunday 3rd January 2016
Last updated: Sunday 3rd January 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-863D34
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of an early Anglo-Saxon brooch made from lead, probably a small square-headed brooch. Only the headplate and a small part of the upper bow survive. The bow is curved and the outer face is worn. The headplate is roughly square with a large raised outer border with decoration consisting of an inner border with two raised ribs internally. This may have continued down the bow but it is too worn and fragmentary to tell. To the reverse is a lug. This type of brooch would date from the 5th to 6th century AD. Compare SWYOR-1ED855.
Created on: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-0D8085
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An elaborate and well preserved Anglo-Scandinavian nummular brooch made out of lead. The brooch is circular, flat, and decorated around the perimeter with six bands of small pellets. The centre of the brooch is decorated with two lines diving the face into a quatrefoil. In the middle of each angle is a large sub-rectangular pellet. In the corner of each angle is a pellet-in-ring. The rest of the field is filled with smaller circular pellets. A pin-lug and catch-plate are located on the reverse. The pin-lug is of traditional form for this type of brooch, having two rounded lugs housing…
Created on: Friday 31st August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-640C24
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A late Anglo-Saxon lead disc brooch of Weetch type 4C, dating circa 950-1000. The disc brooch is of the 'Curved Arm' type (Weetch 2014, p.76, fig. 3.11). The brooch is circular, flat, and largely in good condition apart from damage to the perimeter. The brooch is decorated with a lozenge with a perimeter formed of a pair of beaded lines. This lozenge encloses five moulded pellets. Each of the arms of the lozenge terminate with a transverse collar formed of two beaded lines. Beyond each collar each arm appears to flow into an interlace design which spills into the voids in each angle. …
Created on: Monday 11th March 2019
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horncastle area', grid reference and parish protected.