Record ID: LEIC-33DBDC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval (Viking-age) copper alloy trefoil brooch, 46mm in length, 27mm wide and 3mm thick with a weight of 11.18g. The brooch is incomplete, missing most of one arm. The surviving arms are sub- rectangular, with a rounded tip. The front is slightly convex and the reverse is flat and undecorated. The front has been decorated with a plain raised outer border, then a double-strand interlace design running around the edge of the brooch and underneath three sub triangular motifs, each one sitting in the curve formed where the arms join and running to the object's edge. These surr…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 25th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-ED8262
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy disc brooch of early medieval date. The brooch is flat and circular with a complex Borre-style design on the front surface. This comprises a central ridged cross shape within a circular border, with a pellet in each quarter. Radiating from this are three shapes which may represent heads or skulls, alternating with a geometric design of three radial ridges, a curve parallel to the edge, and another three ridges. The reverse is undecorated, and has the remains of the attachment lug for the missing pin, and the catchplate; both of these are parallel to and set …
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-AB5DEA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper alloy early-medieval/Anglo-Saxon (AD c.525-c.570) great square-headed brooch, missing everyting except the bow and part of the headplate. Overall, the fragment measures 48.6mm long, 32.1mm wide and 11.5mm thick. It weighs 18.6g. The surviving part of the headplate consists of the inner panel and small fragments of the second panel. The bow is almost completely intact, but nothing below it survives. The whole fragment is gilded but the the gilt has worn off the more exposed raised areas. The inner panel of the headplate is decorated with an inverted face mask.…
Created on: Tuesday 29th September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-5DDF7D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval gilded cast copper alloy brooch with remains of iron pin fastening on the reverse. Dating from the 8th century, the mount is in fair condition with some gilding, now rather flakey, still present in the crevices of the chip-carved decoration. While the brooch appears to be lozenge-shaped this is likely to be a result of damage to its edges and it it probable that it was circular. A plain cross divides the decorated face into four equal fields, each containing a panel of deeply cut, non-zoomorphic interlace. In the centre is a circular, plain area, through which is an iro…
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Worksop', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-C766ED
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Near-complete but rather battered copper-alloy equal-arm brooch. The brooch is bow-tie shaped with a flat, flared sub-triangular plate to either end forming the terminals, and a narrowed arched bow between. The only decoration consists of two pairs of transverse parallel incised lines on the face of each flared terminal, adjacent to where they abut the arched bow. The bow has a low C-shaped cross-section in the centre, with a triangular facet on the front at top and bottom, apexes towards the centre. On the reverse of the brooch are the remains of the pin fitting mechanism, consisting…
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elton Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-808BF3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper alloy early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. Only the foot and part of the bow survives. The terminal is in the form of a horse's head, with an expanded semi-circular finial representing the flared nose, with the two halves separated by a central groove. Above this the bow narrows to form the face of the horse, with two low-relief pellets representing the eyes. Above these ears are three transverse grooves and ridges, then the bow narrows further and has bevelled edges before flattening again just below the arched bow which flares upwards and widens. At this point …
Created on: Wednesday 24th October 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 12th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Edingley Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-EC97B2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy supporting-arm brooch, missing its spring mechanism, pin and foot. The wings are flat; one wing terminates with a break while the other has a projecting pierced D-shaped side lug. The bow curves out below a head consisting of a ledge projecting out from the wings, and is decorated with two pairs of transverse grooves; it then narrows before widening again slightly towards the lower bow and terminating with a break just above the foot. The bow is D-shaped in cross-section, and has a flat triangular panel to top and bottom. The top of the foo…
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Collingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-B8E5C1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon copper alloy annular brooch with decorative incised lines in sets of three around the front of the brooch. Part of the attachment loop of an iron pin is rusted onto the brooch, and a small patch of rust is visible where the pin would have rested on the other side. The object is in fair condition with a light green patina, is 6mm wide, 3mm thick, 42mm in diameter and weighs 13.27g. Similar to 10.54 on p92 of the Ashmolean Catalogue. This brooch type is Leeds's type f, which is very difficult to date precisely. They were certainly used in the late 6th and 7th centuries…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-6C0D22
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete composite cast and fabricated copper alloy and enamel brooch, with gilding, of later Early Medieval date. Such brooches have been attributed to both Anglo-Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon material culture groups. The brooch is circular in plan and, based on more complete examples, would have had between six and eight small lugs projecting from the outer edge arranged at regularly spaced intervals. In this instance, due to considerable circumferential damage, only one of these lugs survives. The surviving lug is flat and semi-circular in form with a central slightly raised cylin…
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rolleston Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-752641
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Near complete cast copper alloy brooch of later Early Medieval date; deemed Anglo-Scandinavian in cultural terms. The brooch is lozengiform in plan with openwork decoration. The brooch has a single stylised zoomorphic head at each corner of the lozengiform, the moulded detail of each of these, especially the area between the eyes and ears is slightly different, otherwise they are very similar with each one having a rounded protruding nose, raised ridge running up from this forming the snout or nose and a prominent brow ridge at the top of this. This arrangement forms shallow hollows f…
Created on: Monday 19th September 2011
Last updated: Saturday 28th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clipstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-9CDC85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval copper-alloy zoomorphic terminal from a penannular brooch, 26mm long, 11mm wide and 6mm deep. The terminal is in good condition and weighs 8.33g. It is sub triangular/crescentic, and rectangular in cross-section. The intact end is rectangular and is decorated with slightly protruding triangles which wrap themselves around the corners, the pointed ends forming the corners of the upper surface of the object. These are the stylised ears of the animal head. In front of these triangular ears is a sub-circular area decorated with a triskele motif. Three curving arms, conta…
Created on: Thursday 16th June 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 7th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NR Loughborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-72EBC2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Probable fragment of an Early Medieval 8th century Insular cast copper alloy flat D-sectioned penannular brooch. With cast decoration of a sub-rectangular panel (length 42.9mm, width 15.4mm) central circular boss (mimicking a stone or glass setting) on an interlace background, with a raised border around. Silver dark grey-green patina with some areas of pitting and blistering and patches of light green corrosion. Original diameter c.85mm, current length (not quite diameter) 78.3mm, width max (at panel) 15.4mm, width min10.2mm, thickness max (at panel) 4.5mm, thickness min 2.8mm, weigh…
Created on: Monday 20th September 2010
Last updated: Monday 10th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Farnsfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-9E3A35
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon cast copper-alloy cruciform brooch fragment, 5th or 6th century. Part of the horse-head terminal from the foot survives, with four transverse mouldings at the top of the terminal. The horse's head has prominent pellet eyes; the nose is damaged, but the nostrils are separated and scrolled. The lower part of the catchplate survives on the reverse. Orange-brown patina. Length 39.4mm, width 14.8mm, thickness just below catchplate 5.1mm, weight 8.72g. See MacGregor and Bolick 1993 ('Summary catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections), Oxford) p.99-100 no.s 12.11 & .12…
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-9DB593
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval Anglo Saxon cast copper alloy cruciform or small-long brooch fragment, dating to the 5th or 6th century. The fragment consists of the lower bow and a fragment of the upper foot. The lower bow has four transverse grooves at its base, joining the upper part of the foot which originates in a narrow field with bevelled sides and two transverse ridges below. There is a damaged catchplate (length 11.8mm) on the reverse of the upper foot. The rest of the brooch is missing. Mid moss green patina. Length 17.2mm, width 6.3mm, thickness including catchplate 5.2mm, weight 1.42g. …
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-D40583
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early-Medieval cast copper alloy ansate brooch. The iron pin is broken off but leaves a lump of corrosion on the reverse of the head - it appears to have been held between two lugs, although one is obscured by the corrosion. Sub-circular head; arched D-sectioned bow which thickens towards the middle; sub-rectangular foot; on the reverse of the foot is a damaged catchplate which is set at one side (the right side when viewed from the reverse). There are striations on the head and foot which appear to be an attempt at crude decoration - possibly crosses? Length 30.9mm, width across head…
Created on: Friday 13th November 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tuxford area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-5C7577
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy long equal arm brooch dating to the early Anglo-Saxon period, the 5th or 6th century AD. It is composed of a triangular headplate and footplate, with a bow in between. Both headplate and footplate have been damaged and the original size of the brooch is therefore not clear; the surviving length is 39.77mm and the surviving width 11.91mm. Both headplate and footplate taper away from the bow. The edges of the headplate have broken away, but some crescentic stamps can be seen around the broken edges. The surviving foot is longer than the head and so perhaps a smaller…
Created on: Monday 26th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 13th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Collingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-A23CB7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy separately made side knob from an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. It is semi-circular in cross-section and domed in outline, with a collar at the base with a hole to take the pin bar. It was attached to the side of the brooch by means of the flat flaring tab that projects from the collar. It has a dark brownish patina. Probably late 5th century.
Created on: Thursday 18th June 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 5th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Collingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-3FD883
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Anglo-Saxon strip brooch made from a single strip of copper-alloy, which is expanded to form a lozenge-shaped plate in the centre but narrows to wire on either side of the plate. At the base of the plate the wire is simply curled round to form a hook which acts as a catchplate for the pin. At the top of the plate the wire is looped round on itself in a single loop to the right of the plate, forming a primitive spring. The wire is then bent back down along the length of the brooch to form the pin, which tapers to a point at the end. The lozenge plate is rather worn but traces of …
Created on: Friday 8th May 2009
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Perlethorpe cum Budby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-FAFC04
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Central boss of an Early Medieval Scandinavian Equal-Armed copper alloy brooch. It has gilt on the surface and the boss is topped with a knop. The domed boss is hollow and thins out either side before flaring out to the terminals. These are missing. It has a dark grey hue with a light green patina and decorated with criss-crossing lines and spiral grooves. It measures 33.81mm x 19.23mm x 12.79mm, and weighs 7.62g. This brooch can be classified as a Type III A:1 (as by Aagard in Birka II.1). Its decoration an be described as a Borre style animal with gripping arms or legs. There is a c…
Created on: Thursday 4th September 2008
Last updated: Sunday 19th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-BDC3F1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy ansate brooch. The brooch is symmetrical, D-shaped in section and has an arched central portion. The central portion has a moulded, worn transverse ridge at the apex. There is a short rectangular panel at either end, each decorated with a moulded transverse ridge at either terminal. There is a catchplate on the reverse, and two pin lugs containing an iron pin and iron corrosion. The pin is missing.
Created on: Monday 3rd March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 10th March 2011
Spatial data recorded.