Record ID: IOW-379C72
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Post Medieval-Modern copper alloy brooch, c.AD 1800-1950. This is the main plate of a brooch, lozenge in plan with a central raised section. The outer rim is decorated with a scalloped edge with a pellet in each divot, and a floral decoration at each pointed end. The reverse has the remains of the pin mechanism and catchplate at each end.
Created on: Thursday 2nd November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-C0D884
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch fragment. Cast openwork brooch in the form of a three-petalled floret within a heart-shaped frame with nine small spurs projecting from its outer edge and a slightly larger knop on its cleft. A coiled strand within the loop represents the stalk of the flower. A short bar on the back, broken at both its ends and perhaps serving as part of the pin gear, bears the partial legend: J W SOAM(--). Thickly gilded overall. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Height: 15.1mm, Width: 13.4mm, Thickness (overall): 3.3mm, Weight: 0.46gms
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tetney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-2AFC9D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and glass brooch. A probably homemade brooch in the form of a spider. The body is formed by an oval semi-translucent glass paste stone of plano-convex section and a pale pink tint which is retained in a plain sheet metal band. A small head with tiny round eyes and small jaws is brazed to the front of the band and retains a facetted white glass paste stone representing the spider’s head. Six drawn wire legs remain, now curled by adventitious abrasion. A spot of solder was also observed at the head end during image processing. The twin relict prongs of the pin gear rem…
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DUR-B42D64
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy brooch/badge of the Modern period (c.1930-1950AD ). The brooch has an elongate S-shaped plan with bifoliate terminals. The central portion widens to reveal a cavity with five circular dimples, presumably settings for now-lost crystals, glass or enamel insets. An additional knop composed of three circular plano-convex additions provides the surface for the attachment of the brooch hinge on the reverse. The rest of the reverse is undecorated and the pin has been lost. Length: 31.23 mm; Width: 11.95 mm; Thickness: 1.85 mm; Weight: 1…
Created on: Monday 22nd May 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-D729C6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Modern milled copper alloy brooch or lapel pin, c.AD 1900-1950. This is part of a fine brooch or lapel pin in the shape of a ribbon, gilded to look golden or brassy. The pin and catch mechanisms are lost, as is the top portion of the brooch, where extra decoration may have been. There are no further decoration or maker's marks on the item.
Created on: Wednesday 5th April 2023
Last updated: Thursday 6th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-17AF79
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible silver, oval shaped fastener from the Victorian or early twentieth century AD, c. 1850-1950. The decoration is eclectic with many faceted shapes making the overall design.The pin mechanism does not survive but the mounting points for this can be seen on the rear of the brooch. It is in clean condition, complete except for the pin. It measures 41mm long by 21mm wide, and weighs 5.23g. In spite of the brooch being made of silver, it is less than 300 years old and therefore does not qualify as Treasure under the terms of the Treasure Act 1996 Finders reference: 1872
Created on: Monday 27th March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-5345BC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy and glass brooch. Small cast trefoil openwork brooch of clover-leaf form with a small stalk below and with a low central collet retaining a semi-translucent glass stone of a green tint with a blue spot. Traces of white metal plating appear on the display face. A small soldered gutter set centrally on the back marks the site of a pin or other fixing. Probably costume jewellery or a ‘fairing’ or item of trinket jewellery. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Height: 17.9mm, Width: 22.6mm, Thickness (clear of stone and pin gear): 1.8mm, Weight: 1.82gms
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-DD5E5E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch. Cast costume jewellery brooch, in the form of a bow with pendent V-shaped ends, and with twenty empty hemispherical settings of graduated sizes and formerly occupied by glass paste stones. Faint traces of white metal plating appear round the settings. Bent. The function is revealed by a catch brazed to the back at one end; the opposite position for the pin seat is now empty. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1960 Height: 16mm, Length: 42.9mm, Thickness (clear of catch): 1.6mm, Weight: 5.42gms
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Muckton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-938833
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy disc brooch, probably dating from c. AD 1850.  The brooch is circular in form and is decorated with a central circular boss that is surrounded by alternating pellets and triangular cells. The reverse is undecorated and the remains of a hinge mechanism and catch can be seen. Based of similar examples of the hinge, it suggests that this brooch is later in date  Measurements: Diameter, 30.04mm; Thickness, 5.21mm; Weight, 4.92g
Created on: Tuesday 2nd August 2022
Last updated: Friday 24th March 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-7A4B0E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold half-sovereign of Victoria, Jubilee coinage, dated 1887, which has been adapted for use as a brooch. Obverse: veiled and crowned bust of Queen Victoria facing left. V[ICT]ORIA. DEI. [GRAT]IA. Reverse: crowned and garnished shield with date 1887 below. BRITANNIARVM REGINA FID: DEF: The initials J E B appear below the bust. These are for the designer Joseph Edgar Boehm, The die axis is 12 0'clock and the wear of the coin is very fine. Spink (2011) 3869 on page 446. A tubular pin hinge slotted to take the missing pin has been soldered onto the obverse of t…
Created on: Monday 1st August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DUR-3A62E6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver openwork brooch of uncertain date. Description: The brooch has a cruciform arrangement, the four arms each formed of a stem and bud framed by slender leaves extending from a central hollow circular setting. Between each of the arms in each quarter is a pelta, also projecting from the centre. The reverse is flat, plain and undecorated, with a single rivet at the centre of the circular setting. The pierced lug housing the hinged pin is well-preserved, as is the hooked catch-plate; the pin itself is missing.   Dimensions: Length: 33.03 mm; Width: 31.53 mm; Thickness…
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ravensworth area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B05D44
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch. Pressed metal oval band with eight bowl-shaped settings for paste stones [lost] separated by radiating arcs in a symmetrical arrangement and set against a field stippled by tiny annular shapes; pin gear lost. Probably a ‘fairing’ or item of trinket jewellery. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1930 Height: 31.3mm, Width: 37.8mm, Thickness: 0.3mm, Weight: 2.06gms
Created on: Monday 4th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th April 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DEV-6D1F4C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete very attractive modern enamel work brooch dating from AD 1850-1920. The brooch pin is missing, the circular plate survives. It is inspired by earlier Limoges and Mosan champlevé enamel work of the medieval period and likely dates to the late 19th century Arts and Crafts revival of these designs. It is composed around a cruciform shape, with a central floreate cross lying within a white enamel squared lozenge. These are overlain by a knotwork design which divides the enamel into multiple cells. Traces of red and royal blue enamel can be seen, while the white lozeng…
Created on: Thursday 6th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 12th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Exminster CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-C69E42
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver gilt filigree object, possibly part of a brooch or other jewellery item. The fitting comprises a six-pointed star made from twisted silver gilt wire, comprising a circular central frame with an outer border of six concave sections forming triangular points where they meet. The junction and attachment point of each concave section with the circular frame has a small quatrefoil plaque soldered across it. There are small heater-shield shaped plaques with abstract, possibly pseudo-heraldic, incised decoration soldered across the junctions of the curved sections on the tips of the…
Created on: Friday 17th December 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 9th February 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-D27F4C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Victorian "lover's knot" brooch, c.19th-20th century. An incomplete brooch made of two copper alloy bars twisted around each other. The catchplate and pin have not survived. There is no indication of decoration on this object. These brooches were popular gifts during the Victorian period and were made in various sizes and materials; some had stamped decoration on the surface and some included precious gems in the design.
Created on: Thursday 11th November 2021
Last updated: Thursday 2nd December 2021
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Record ID: NLM-5F897C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch. Cast heart-shaped frame with a separate stamped floret brazed to its centre. The stubs of a pin seat and catch appear on the back. The frame retains a thick glossy black coating. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Height: 24.1mm, Width: 21.8mm, Thickness (frame): 1.61mm, Weight: 2.98gms
Created on: Tuesday 1st June 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 1st June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ulceby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-979A2B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver heart-shaped object, probably a modern brooch, mounted on two silver bars, one of which has broken off. The heart is formed from a band of silver with a width of 2.91mm, the internal edge of which is a simple heart shape and the external edge scalloped with the band protruding, at the point of the heart, to the left. The reverse of the band is flat and the obverse scallops have a dot in the centre. The bars are silver tubes mounted on the reverse of the heart horizontally, with the upper edge scalloped. Both tubes show breakage at both ends. The silver is t…
Created on: Friday 16th April 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 21st July 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-402D5C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An annular brooch of copper alloy or gold, of probable 19th or 20th century date. It comprises a larger circle formed from a single strand of twisted metal, with a smaller circle in the same manner placed on top. The two are joined on the right and left. On the reverse, he underlying larger annular element remains untwisted at the left so to form a flat rectangular platform, to which is attached a mount for a pin (now missing). On the right is a pin rest formed from a coil of wire appearing like a 'pig's tail', which is also attached to the larger annular element.
Created on: Monday 12th April 2021
Last updated: Monday 19th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-C437B3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy mourning brooch of modern date (c. 1800-1850). Description: The brooch is rectangular with a rectangular central void. This is the front of the brooch, which would have originally been formed in two sections or layers, sandwiched together, thus forming a cell in the centre which would have enclosed possibly human hair with a glazed front. The back of this section appears to be copper alloy but the front has a gold colour surround and gold coloured lettering which reads 'IN MEMORY OF' around its top and two sides, with a decoration at the bottom, a…
Created on: Tuesday 6th April 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 1st September 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-0B27E3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Post Medieval to Modern dress brooch, initially thought to be coloured paste and yellow metal. After recording the finder took it for examination by a jeweller who stated it to be gold and topaz. The former was thought to be more likely as there are no assay marks though these are not always present on jewellery. The brooch consists of a highly ornate frame consisting of swags, coronets and finials in gold. Inside this there is a large piece of honey yellow topaz which has been given one of the more recent brilliant cuts. The brooch is largely complete though the pin and some of i…
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Cockermouth', grid reference and parish protected.