Record ID: NLM-181AE4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch fragment, as kindly identified by the finder. Cast plate, probably of octagonal form with rounded corners, with a central circular or oval frame in low relief, possibly resembling a floral wreath. A border around this bears a series of angled ruled incised lines radiating from the frame. A central panel is featureless, and may have retained an image or keepsake. A small lug on the back presumably relates to pin gear, otherwise lost. This was probably made in a craft tradition rather than an industrial setting. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900. Length: …
Created on: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
Last updated: Friday 5th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bigby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-451F2E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy and glass brooch. A square gilded copper alloy backplate and four strips of gilt edging, each studded with eleven tiny conical bosses, frame a concavo-convex display face of nine cells defined by twisted gilt copper alloy wire. Two dark spots on the flat back show where pin gear has been lost. The design conceit of what the finder describes as a miniature mosaic appears to be a flower garden. The nine cells form an equal armed cross with large central roundel, with a quarter circle in the angle of each pair of arms. The corner cells are flowerbeds filled by tiny dens…
Created on: Monday 1st September 2014
Last updated: Thursday 4th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bottesford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GAT-783A71
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy brooch in the shape of two entwined serpents. The object is green in colour and there is active corrosion in several places. The brooch is oval in shape and is formed by two coils of thick wire which are intermeshed. The wires are 2.82mm in diameter and circular in section however, on the front of the brooch, the terminals form flattened tear drop shapes representing the stylised heads of the serpents, while on the back the terminals are butt ended. On the front of the brooch there is raised decoration visible along the wires which may represent scales, and on one coil …
Created on: Tuesday 29th July 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 27th October 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-E1CD98
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver possible Brooch fragment. Beaten silver sheet fragment of thickness 0.3mm with a border of a finely rendered cable pattern set in a gully between ridges, and with elements of three of a series of drawn wire quatrefoils within this border. A plain segment masks the junction of two differently aligned elements of the border, suggesting that this, like the internal design, may be applied to the sheet. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900. Length: 17.2mm, Width: 6.2mm, Thickness (overall): 1.0mm, Weight: 0.37gms.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd July 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Owersby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-006606
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and glass brooch fragment. Pressed metal openwork plate with strap loop brazed to one side and an oval glass (originally) plano-convex facetted stone of black glass, length 12.8mm. The plate and the stone were found separately though close to each other, and the finder infers - credibly - they may be from the same object. The metal plate is tinned on the front and painted glossy black on the back. This object probably follows the fashion for jet mourning jewellery established by Queen Victoria after the death of Prince Albert in 1861. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1865-1…
Created on: Friday 11th July 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-004D19
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch. Cast circular brooch of hollow composite construction, comprising a flat back plate with twelve equidistantly spaced pointed knops and retaining the stub of the mounting for a hinged pin, and a pressed metal front. The front bears, described from the outside: a billeted or indented border, a pelleted ring, and a central boss with sloping sides and a flat top to which one or two further layers of sheet metal were formerly attached. The back plate is patinated or decayed making it appear older than the pressed metal construction of the front would suggest. Suggested…
Created on: Friday 11th July 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-07EE11
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch. Cast concavo-convex brooch in the form of a reclining Chinaman with a long divided beard or moustache, with one hand resting on his knee. He wears a hat resembling a hussar's colpack with hanging bag to one side; a loose fitting tunic decorated with a repeated hexagonal motif, and baggy trousers. A pair of indeterminate features lie beyond his foot - possibly these include the other foot, while his elbow rests on a recumbent antlered deer. There are traces of gilding on the Chinaman, but not on the deer. There is a cylindrical object related to fastening brazed to…
Created on: Monday 12th May 2014
Last updated: Thursday 25th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-8B50B3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch. Sheet metal plate in the form of a spade from a pack of cards, with a drawn wire four coil spring and pin with hooked end brazed to the back. The spring is set at the top of the plate; the stalk of the Spade is perforated and now ragged, probably from loss of a catch plate. This would appear to have been made in a craft rather than an industrial setting, probably as a 'one off' item of personalised trinket jewellery. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900. Height: 22.6mm, Width: 23.8mm, Thickness (plate): 0.3mm, Weight: 0.76gms.
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 24th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PAS-FA19B6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A Post-Medieval, silver annular brooch or buckle with detached brooch pin, now in three pieces. The main body of the brooch forms an irregular circle in plan and is subrectangular in section, with a slightly concave underside. The underside of the main body carries the makers mark OG, close to the narrowed point on the rim where the pin would have attached. The silver has crystallised and become brittle, as displayed in the three fragments of the brooch pin, which is missing its terminal and whose attachment loop is broken in two pieces. Dimensions: 1. Main body of brooch, Diame…
Created on: Thursday 17th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 1st July 2014
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-2D1E46
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and mid blue glass possible brooch fragment. Openwork object of pressed metal, of triangular form with a central collet retaining a round bead of translucent mid blue glass, of diameter c.3.5mm surrounded by a possibly floral motif. This is presumed to be an item of trinket costume jewellery, though no fixing gear remains. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900. Length: 27.7mm, Width: 23.4mm, Thickness (plate): 0.7mm, Diameter (setting for bead): 5.3mm, Weight: 1.70gms.
Created on: Wednesday 26th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 22nd February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Crowle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-F654E8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch. Pressed metal oval back plate of thickness 0.4mm with a front also of pressed metal comprising a Greek cross with a central bordered oval plate; pairs of florets within a thick pelleted border appear between the arms; one cross arm and the accompanying field are lost. The stubs of fastening gear appear on the back. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900. Length: 34.9mm, Width: 27.9mm, Thickness (overall): 2.3mm, Weight: 3.98gms.
Created on: Thursday 27th February 2014
Last updated: Friday 19th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Gainsborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-A1F525
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch, of composite construction of front and back plates, both pressed metal. The front comprises a rectangular frame of a heavy Neo-Classical style with indented corners and a semicircular plate or lug projecting from the centre of each side, each bearing vegetal ornament in low relief. Framing motifs are repeated with an inner order of billeted decoration, a raised rib, and closely spaced pellets in a gutter. This surrounds a flat field bearing the stamped motif of dove and olive branch. The plain flat back plate retains twin lugs for a pin (lost) and the stub of a wi…
Created on: Thursday 30th January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 18th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-88CFE8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy annular brooch. Pressed metal ring with textured relief decoration of the band including a border and a central line of closely juxtaposed pits of diameter c.1mm; the remains of a hinged pin seat and a drawn wire loop appear on the back. Possibly a fairing or item of trinket jewellery. Suggested date: Modern, 1850-1900. Diameter: 19.1mm, Band Width: 3.3mm, Band Thickness: 1.5mm, Weight: 1.35g.
Created on: Wednesday 11th December 2013
Last updated: Friday 13th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-1F7BF3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch with white metal plating. Hollow pressed metal brooch, probably of separate halves joined, with remains of a hinged pin seat and catch plate on the back. The front bears a relief depiction of a water mill with working wheel in a forested setting. The back retains white metal plating. Now bent. The subject was especially favoured by artists of the 19th-century Romantic movement, though the pressed metal construction tends to argue a slightly later date. Suggested date: Post-Medieval to Modern, 1850-1930. Diameter: 29mm, Thickness (clear of fastening): 2.9mm, We…
Created on: Friday 6th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 16th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Gainsborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-1F4BF7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy probable brooch fragment, as identified by the finder. Openwork Fragment of a light openwork brooch, comprising a semi-circular extent of frame with a five petalled flower within, and with spurs suggesting further lost elements. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1800-1900. Length: 30.1mm, Width: 21mm, Thickness: 1.3mm, Weight: 2.62gms.
Created on: Friday 6th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 16th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Gainsborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F08412
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very badly distorted medieval silver annular frame brooch consisting of a broad sheet frame and a D-section pin looped through a hole that has been punched though from the front face. There is a stamped maker's mark on the upper face of the pin, probably one or two letters, although now indecipherable and very difficult to see as the frame obscures this section of the pin. External diameter c.25mm. Width of hoop 6mm. Weight 2.27g. A common type (cf. GLO-098C12, GLO-211601, CAMHER-9BE832, NLM-AA24E6, BUC-301962, SF-AEB944, SF-C10772, SF-C0D7A2, SF-CAS906). Norfolk examples include b…
Created on: Wednesday 4th December 2013
Last updated: Thursday 16th July 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LVPL-E02955
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy enamelled disc brooch, probably post medieval to modern in date (c AD1600-1900). The brooch is disc-shaped and slightly domed with a concave lower face. The upper face has an intricate pattern of fleur de lis and petal shapes, inlaid with red, green and white enamels, traces of which remain. The lower face is gilded and has the remains of a spring pin and catchplate. The pin is missing. Probable stamped/pressed design. Similar in style to LANCUM-475BA0
Created on: Tuesday 3rd December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd December 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-A91400
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probably post medieval brooch or dress fastening. The object is made of two parts; there is the main body of the brooch which is circular in plan and in section. Part of the pin also remains and this is tears-shaped in plan with a circular hole drilled through it for attachment to the body. The pin is incomplete. This brooch could have been of the annular type.
Created on: Friday 25th October 2013
Last updated: Friday 25th October 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-946863
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy annular brooch with a separately attached bar, probably of 17th century or possibly much later date.. The buckle has eight glass insets in apertures spaced equally around the frame with flowers comprising raised pellets between. The brooch retains its pin.
Created on: Thursday 24th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-D3DE67
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a brooch of uncertain date. The object is reminiscent of a Roman brooch, however the metal has a red-brown patina more associated with the Post Medieval period. The fragment is an inverted 'T' shape in plan with a vertical bar with a rounded expansion towards a lateral bar. The lateral bar is expanded in thickness at the junction between vertical and lateral bars. The lateral bar tapers at the ends to rectangular knops, thinner and narrower than the central part of the bar. A catch plate is located on the reverse of the vertical bar, 'D' shaped in plan with the end curv…
Created on: Thursday 3rd October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 3rd October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Littlebury', grid reference and parish protected.