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Record ID: NMS-D2C402
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
About half of the flat circular frame of an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy annular brooch, with an original diameter of c. 40mm. One break is across a neat rounded hole in the frame. This may be the pin hole, but on the reverse there is solder around the hole and it may possibly alternatively be a repair. There is also some iron corrosion on the reverse here, which could be from the pin. The frame is otherwise well preserved here, and at 6.1mm wide appears to retain its original width. The inner edge is 1.2mm thick and it tapers towards the outer edge which is 0.6mm thick. Th…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D16462
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy, probably a small piece of foot from an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. The fragment is C-shaped in cross-section, hollow on the reverse, and is broken at both ends (one break fairly fresh and granular, the other more worn). At one end, the front has a bold moulding, 4-5mm deep and flat-topped, which is divided into two by an off-centre transverse groove. The overall surviving length is 21.1mm, maximum width 12.8mm and maximum thickness (at moulding) 6.0mm. It weighs 4.93g. It seems likely that this is one of the mouldings at the top of a horse's …
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D0E282
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and bow from an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch. The flat, apparently undecorated headplate has a sub-rectangular central panel with three flat 'knobs', all of which appear to have been mushroom-shaped, or D-shaped above narrowed waists. This shape of headplate is often known as 'trefoil'. On the reverse of the headplate is a broken pin bar lug (worn breaks) with iron staining around it. All the edges of the headplate are worn. The bow is D-shaped in cross-section, quite highly arched and simple, with a groove across the top the onl…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D0BB0C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and bow from an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch. The flat headplate is very worn and its original shape is uncertain, but it has the remains of deep U-shaped cut-outs in both its lower edge and its upper corners, forming three knobs. These may have had straight ends, as the top and one side knob each retain a straight row of crescentic stamps along their edges. On the reverse of the headplate is a large double pin bar lug, one lug incomplete and the other retaining part of an iron pin bar. There is extensive iron corrosion between the two lugs.  The bow…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D07466
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch, now in two joining parts. The head is of the 'cross potent' type, with a flat rectangular central panel c. 13 x 18mm. This has three sub-rectangular flat 'knobs' attached by narrower waists, to form a headplate in total 32.2mm wide. The surface is corroded and some is missing, but traces of double-crescent or half ring-and-dot stamps can be seen; there is a row of five on the top knob and a similar row on one side knob, each with a trace of a single groove outside the row of stamps. On the reverse of the headpla…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-448764
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper-alloy small long/cruciform brooch dating to circa AD 450-570. The extant element is virtually complete save for the apex of the head and the lower foot, terminal and pin. The head plate is flat and rectangular. It terminates in old breaks on each of its edges and it is, therefore, unclear whether there would have been attached any side knops or integrally cast elements. The headplate is undecorated. The bow emerges from the lower edge of the headplate. It is curved in profile and plano-convex in section. Running down the centre is a lo…
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-4343DA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Early Medieval copper-alloy cruciform brooch dating to circa AD 475-550. The extant piece consists of a side knop which would have been attached to the headplate of the brooch.. It is dumbbell shaped in plan and plano-convex in section, with a flat reverse. The front face consists of two lobes joined by a constricted mid-setion. Each lobe is decorated with three incised transverse grooves. At the efge of one of the lobes is a shall median rectangular groove which would have facilitated attachment to the brooch. It is now covered with iron staining.  Half-rou…
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D5B0BB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper-alloy ansate brooch dating to circa AD 700-1000. Cast in one piece it consists of two flat discoidal terminals at either end. One terminal appears to have been slightly miscast with a circular protrusion projecting from one edge. The bow has a triangular-section and is curved in profile. The terminals and bow are undecorated. Projecting from the reverse of one of the terminals is a heavily corroded lug which would have held the now missing pin. There is now no trace of a catchplate projecting from the reverse of the other terminal. The brooch is con…
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2024
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-052BEC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of an early-medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) cruciform brooch. The object consists of the zoomorphic foot below two transverse moulded ribs. Immediately above the ribs is a worn transverse break. The creature is heavily stylised, moulded pellets for eyes below two thin incised grooves representing brows. The face flattens before opening out into two flat and semi-circular nostrils which are wider than the rest of the head. The nostrils are separated by a ridge - the snout - which begins at the midpoint between the eyes and runs longitudinally, before terminating in a bifurcat…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-CA2212
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete headplate and bow of an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy brooch. The headplate is flat, undecorated and terminates in irregular worn breaks on all edges. On the reverse is a remnant of a single central vertical pin-lug, now embedded in a mass of slightly reddish-brown corrosion products. An incomplete perforation is visible at the rearward edge. A short L-shaped rod, patinated dark brown like the rest of the brooch and also imbedded in the corrosion products, may be a fragment of the pin. The bow projects from the lower edge of the headplate, at first with a rectangular cross…
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-C98209
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy bow brooch, perhaps a cruciform of Martin’s (2015) type 3. The headplate is roughly rectangular, although all of its edges are now heavily abraded and some parts are certainly worn breaks. There is a flat square panel on the front (raised a fraction of a millimetre), slightly wider than the bow and aligned with the lower edge of the headplate. The panel is decorated along the top and one lateral edge with a line of punched crescent-shaped marks. None are visible on the opposite edge, where the surface of the metal is more corroded.  …
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-F5EF23
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch. The head and bow are mostly extant, but the foot and pin are missing. The head appears to have been cruciform, or rectangular with four cut-outs: one at each of the top corners and two on the underside, one on each side of the bow. The top edge and one of the lateral edges are original, but they are missing a small fragment from each end. There are two incomplete circular perforations near the top. They are both open to the potential corner cut-outs, while one is additionally truncated by a vertical break, from which the orig…
Created on: Wednesday 30th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6664B8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Separately cast copper-alloy side-knob from the head-plate of an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch of Martin’s (2015) type 2 or 3. It is sub-oval in cross-section, flat on the reverse and subdivided into a base, a concave waist and a dome, although the dome is more like a tapering cylinder and is fairly flat at the end. The waist surrounds the knob on the front and sides only; the reverse is flat throughout. On the underside of the base there is a straight slot for attachment to the head-plate. A narrow circular hole for the missing axis bar passes through the knob from the behi…
Created on: Tuesday 18th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 14th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-16B4D0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete early-medieval copper-alloy disc brooch of Weetch type 18A.v, a variant of which a close parallel has not yet been found or recorded. Approximately twenty per cent of the disc is missing to worn breaks. The front is decorated with a simple equal-armed cross in relief, each arm of which terminates in an annulet that meets the very edge of the disc. The counter-relief areas within the annulets and around the cross are now vacant but were probably once filled with champlevé enamel. On the reverse, close to and parallel to one edge, there is a single …
Created on: Tuesday 20th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 26th July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-72C9B4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy foot and catchplate of a probably early-medieval brooch of unknown type, with perhaps the a remnant of the pin in-situ. The foot is convex on the front and flat on the reverse (ignoring the catch plate). The front face is divided into four moulded decorative parts, arranged in a vertical series. The largest two are in the centre. There is a smaller oval, which is wider than it is long and which overlaps the top of a wider, longer inverted-egg-shape below. Projecting downward from this latter and overlapping its lower end is another oval, much smaller than the first tw…
Created on: Monday 12th June 2023
Last updated: Saturday 15th July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-F409AA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy disc brooch with Terslev-style decoration in counter-relief around a central domed boss. The arrangement of four addorsed C-shaped motifs linked by a double-strand square with a lozenge at each corner is not easily seen on this example but is much clearer on SWYOR-D58AE0 (which has a Kershaw type IV motif). On the reverse a pin lug is set parallel with the edge while a catchplate lies at right angles to it, a hybrid Anglo-Scandinavian arrangement (Weetch 2014 fig. 3.1 C; Kershaw 2013, 39, fig. 2.14). Small patches of concreted material are firmly …
Created on: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-F22A7E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle Saxon copper alloy bird brooch of Weetch 2014 type 30.B, a type which is of Carolingian rather than Scandinavian inspiration. Traces of solder on the reverse that the missing catchplate and pin lug were separetely made, and there is nothing to show that they had formedpart of a repair. The bird, with a fan-shaped tail and conjoined feet, stands facing right and bears an equal-armed cross on its back. The front surface is rather worn but grooves, moulded or engraved, can be seen on the tail, the cross and the wing. The eye is slightly raised and may have…
Created on: Tuesday 6th June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-08BFC2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Separately cast copper-alloy top- or side-knob from the head-plate of an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch of Martin’s (2015) type 2 or 3. It is nearly semi-circular in cross-section (more than half of a circle, flat on the reverse) and subdivided into a base, a concave waist and a dome. It is not hollow, but there a is shallow sub-circular depression on the reverse. On the underside of the base there is straight slot for attachment to the head-plate and, behind this, a remnant of the axis-bar remains in-situ within a circular hole, flush with the surface of the surrounding meta…
Created on: Friday 26th May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7B7FC9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete bow and a small fraction of the footplate of an Early Anglo-Saxon copper alloy great square-headed brooch, both breaks ancient. At the mid-point of, and occupying almost the full width of the flat-sectioned bow a square panel with a raised rim contains a four-spiral tetraskele or curly swastika motif in relief and within a frame. On the front of the footplate part of a transverse moulded groove has survived, and on the reverse the upper end of the catchplate remains as a stump. Weight 13.63g. Extant length and width 33 and 20.5mm. Probably c.525 - c.…
Created on: Friday 19th May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-34F45A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of the footplate of an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy great square-headed brooch of Hines’ (1997) Group XVI. It consists of parts of the footplate bar, inner panel frame and lower borders, as defined by Hines (ibid p5, fig. 1), all integrally cast into a single flat plate. It terminates at the top and bottom in a transverse break and there is an additional oblique break at one side of the wide end. All breaks are worn. The fragment tapers in width concavely and symmetrically from top bottom. The concave edges of each are interrupted twice by a larger and then a smaller s…
Created on: Tuesday 16th May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 30th November 2023
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