Record ID: SWYOR-A2EB65
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy annular brooch from the Medieval period, around AD 1200 - 1350. The pin is broken. The circular frame has a recess for the pin. The frame is oval in cross sectoin and is decorated on one face with transverse grooves covering the whole face. The pin is a strip of copper alloy sheet bent round the frame, but most of it is missing.  Thickness: 2.86mm Weight: 5.32g Diameter: 29.95mm Internal diameter: 20.98mm Compare examples 1312, 1315 and 1322 in Egan and Pritchard (1991) which date from AD 1200 - 1350.
Created on: Monday 13th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-908032
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy annular framed brooch with the loop of the pin set in a constriction. There are side flanges (width 4.2mm) next to the loop. Of the rest of the pin only a short length remains and it is extremely narrow (1mm). The frame is round-sectioned and undecorated.  Weight 2.15g. External and internal diameters 23 and 18mm. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Sunday 12th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 16th February 2023
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Record ID: OXON-0CD7FE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  A complete Medieval annular buckle with twisted and knopped frame The object has circular frame, made of a silver wire. This is rectangular in cross section for half its circumference. The second half is twisted twice fully. Within each twist is a continuous line of circular pellets. Placed just beyond this twisted section are two 'brambled' knops which are wider in diameter than the frame and decorated with diagonal incised lines. The pin is placed in the plain part of the frame between these two knops. The pin consists of a circular loop, followed by a bea…
Created on: Monday 6th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Overton cp', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-A3DEB9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy medieval annular brooch. A hexagonal, flattened loop-shape with a low, rounded boss projecting from each corner of the outer face. There are file marks and irregularly positioned engraved lines in places on the outer face. A simple copper-alloy wire pin remains in situ, but there is no pin recess. The surface of the metal has a shiny dark green patina. See PAS records: SUR-4E0A92, SWYOR-578EB2 and SUR-C29F45 for parallels, though all are more elaborately decorated. Most decorated annular brooches date to the 13th to mid-15th century. See examples from…
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 5th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7DA399
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy medieval annular brooch, now very corroded and with much of its surface missing. The frame is 30.1mm in diameter, and was originally rectangular in cross-section, with rounded corners; where it survives best the frame measures 4.7mm wide and 3.0mm thick. It is undecorated, but has a pin constriction 3.3mm wide and a short, V-shaped nick forming a pin rest opposite this. The pin does not survive. It weighs 5.2g. It is fairly similar in proportions to a decorated copper-alloy annular brooch found in a context of c. 1270-1350 in London (Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1313).
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: CAM-FF2B9B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy annular brooch frame of Medieval date. Weight is 3.25g, external diameter on the pin constriction axis is 21.8mm, external diameter on the axis at 90 degrees to that is 23.6mm. The frame has a sub-circular shape, the pin constriction accounting for 2.3mm of the total circmference. The frame's cross-section is circular with a diameter of c.3.0mm, the pin constriction also has a circular cross-section the diameter reducing to 1.3mm. The pin is not present. There is no decoration on the frame nor any evidence of a surface coating.
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D6BE7E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy brooch comprising a square sheet with a central circular aperture and a flimsy pin of sheet set in a hole. Both surfaces are coated with white metal. On the rear there are numerous apparently random shallowly engraved lines, some straight and some curving. The front is elaborately decorated with lines of finely executed interrupted rocker-arm engraving giving the appearance of tiny addorsed triangles. The pin hole is flanked by such lines and each corner is taken up by a curving line enclosing others forming a L-shape and following the edges. Weight…
Created on: Sunday 22nd January 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st September 2023
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Record ID: OXON-AA85B8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast annular copper-alloy medieval brooch dating to the period c.1200-1400.  Most of the pin is missing.  The frame is rectangular in cross section and circular in plan with a break on one side to allow a pin to articulate around the frame. The brooch is slightly damaged where the pin is bent over the frame. The upper suface of the frame has a raised letter inscirption. This reads AVE REGINA COELORUM AVE DO.  The reverse of the brooch is plain and undecorated. The brooch is a dark green colour. It is 43.2mm in diameter, 7.91…
Created on: Friday 20th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 21st December 2023
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Record ID: SUR-945E92
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A later medieval cast copper alloy frame from a large annular brooch. The frame is D-shaped in cross section, 3.5mm thick and 5.7mm wide. There is a projection in the form of an acorn or perhaps a trefoil, with a moulded collar. On the opposite side of the frame is a pin constriction, the presence of which suggests an interpretation as a brooch rather than a buckle. The frame has broken across this constriction. The front has bevelled sides and there are tool marks from finishing. See also SUSS-5AA6E2.
Created on: Thursday 19th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 19th January 2023
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Record ID: LVPL-93B9CC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy buckle of late medieval date (c.AD 1300-1400). The object is the outside edge of a single loop buckle, with a pattern consisting of a serrated edge pattern intersected by undecorated sections. The reverse is undecorated. It has a smooth light green patina. Dimensions: length 36.2mm, width 26.0mm, thickness 2.6mm, weight 4.93g Similar brooches are illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991: 249) see especially no.1307 which is from an excavated context dating to 1350-1400. Egan and Pritchard note that buckles of a similar annular frame are designated as su…
Created on: Thursday 19th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 16th February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-7CD5CD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval (mid 13th to 14th century) annular brooch: The copper alloy brooch is circular in plan and has four collets. Each collet is an annular cell with the brooch being slightly swollen in-between. The original settings of the collet are missing. Between two collets there is a narrowed, circular section bar for the pin. Either side of the constriction there is a transverse ridge. On the frame opposite there is a notch for the pin and this again has a transverse ridge either side as well. The reverse is undecorated. The brooch has a mid to dark green patina. The pin is curled aro…
Created on: Wednesday 18th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 9th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6DAFBF
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a medieval copper-alloy annular brooch. Just under half of the frame is extant, including at least part of pin-constriction at one end. The pin is lost. The frame is flat on the reverse and convex on the front. It is decorated on the front with multiple oblique grooves, extending in length from the external edge to about two millimetres from the internal edge. These are concentrated in more or less the central two-thirds of the fragment. The external edge has suffered some abrasion but the internal edge appears to be intact. The breaks at both ends are worn. The metal is p…
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th February 2023
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Record ID: LIN-17028D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy medieval brooch c.AD 1200-1400. Flat circular disc decorated on one side with two concentric rings of ring-and-dot motif around a central circular ring-and-dot. The reverse carries an applied (soldered) sub-rectangular fixture with a scrolled terminal.  Diameter 25.28 mm. Thickness: 5.04 mm. Weight 3.89g. The design carried on this disc brooch broadly parallels the ringed dots decorating an example from Skidbrooke with Saltfleet Haven, Lincolnshire (PUBLIC-C85EE4). It is similar to nummular brooches, coin b…
Created on: Friday 13th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
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Record ID: DOR-ED8FB1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy annular brooch. The frame only remains, the pin is missing. The frame thin and oval with an oval cross section. It is decorated with moulded diagonal grooves all over the front face, the rear is undecorated. THere is a narrow oconstriction in the middle of one of the long sides where the missing pin was attached. Date: Medieval c. 1200-1500 Dimensions: 29.96 mm x 26.3 mm x 2.04 mm Frame width 2.47 mm Weight: 1.94 g g
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 23rd January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-EBCC69
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and badly distorted medieval copper alloy framed brooch, a sexfoil with six circular collets which contain white fixative but have lost their stones. Part of the frame including one collet and a pin constriction is missing (old break). The underside is flat and between the collects the inner face of the frame is strongly bevelled. Brooches of this form are not common, most examples with six collets being circular or hexagonal. Weight 5.56g. Diameter c.28mm. Thickness at collets 4 - 5mm, between collets 3 - 3.5mm. Early 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 31st August 2023
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Record ID: LIN-805842
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper alloy annular brooch. The frame is circular in plan, oval in section, and has a small restriction for the pin. The pin is made of copper alloy and is complete. Traces of gilding survive on the frame and pin.
Created on: Friday 6th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Grasby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-6EFA0C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval copper alloy annular brooch, dating to c. AD 1230-1260. The brooch is lozenge shaped, in three of the corners is a four petalled flower. The fourth corner has a notch which holds the copper alloy pin, this is looped around the brooch bar and extends to the other side of the frame. The bar narrows to a point at the end, and has been slightly bent out of shape. There is a raised collar around where the pin bar attaches to the frame. In between each corner there is a central border of raised pellets, either side of this is a raised solid line border. On the reverse the…
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 27th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Henley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-6B883E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy annular brooch. Cast round-section band retaining a tapered cast and collared pin looped around the band. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1350 Diameter: 24.7mm, Band Width/Thickness: 2.7mm, Weight: 4.28gms
Created on: Thursday 5th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 5th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnoldby le Beck', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2FDF3B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy brooch frame in the form of two bird-like creatures with heads addorsed and flanking a recess for the missing pin and with bodies or wings which curve outwards and then inwards to meet at the tails. Both the heads and tails are abraded and have lost their extremities. The bodies/wings are decorated with lines of finely executed interrupted rocker-arm engraving giving the appearance of tiny addorsed triangles. A very flimsy object with no good parallel noted, the closest being a more robust example from Cambridgeshire (SF-CF60F1). Weig…
Created on: Monday 2nd January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-B1BE1D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval small silver annular brooch dating c. 1200-1400. The plain undecorated circular frame is circular in cross-section with a constriction for the pin. The triangular wrap-around pin is in place and has a rectangular cross-section and a decorative transverse rib on the upper surface near the attachment loop. The pin has a pointed tip and can move freely. The metal surface is rough and worn with a silver/black brown colour. Measurements: external diameter: 13.07mm; thickness of frame: 1.37mm and weight: 0.68g. Discussion: the difference b…
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Bradley', grid reference and parish protected.