Record ID: NMS-99877A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval silver annular brooch, complete with silver pin. The frame of the brooch is circular, thick and flat to make a rectangular cross-section. The pin is held in a constriction, and has an open loop. There is a transverse double moulding at the junction of loop and shaft, below which the cross-section of the shaft is D-shaped or trapezoidal.  The frame is engraved on both faces with letters which read clockwise from the pin constriction. Because the pin has a clear front and reverse, it is possible to identify the front and reverse of the frame too; the…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-4FE811
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Silver pin from a medieval annular (or framed) brooch. The top of the round-sectioned wire shaft has been worked into a D-shaped cross-section and curled backwards to form a loop. Below this a globular boss or collar is decorated, only on the front, with a group of nine closely spaced punched annulets; this decorative technique is often known as 'brambling'. The lower end of the shaft tapers to a point, before which a slight concavity on the underside would have fitted over the frame.  Dimensions: Weight 1.34g. Length 3…
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 12th July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-25921E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Brooch made from a coin of Ethelred II (978-1016), small cross type, now incomplete and in two pieces. The obverse is gilded, and the reverse has two patches of solder. The coin is an example of Aethelred's first small cross type, struck by the moneyer Godman, probably of London (GODMAN MO [?}LV[...], the L being obscured by a patch of solder). North 764, c.978-9. Dimensions: approximately 20mm diameter, weight 1.21g. Discussion: Brooches made from coins are Weetch's type 2.B. This is an unusual example, as it is more common for the reverse to be used as the…
Created on: Friday 21st April 2023
Last updated: Monday 19th February 2024
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Record ID: DENO-9F2C55
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval silver gilt demi-gros of John II of Avesnes, the Count of Hainaut (AD 1280 - 1307), mint of Valenciennes. The coin has been re-used as a brooch or dress accessory with soldered attachments in the form of a hook and small loop on the obverse of the coin. The reverse is gilded, with the inscription reading, MONATA VALENCENENSIS SIGNVM CVRCIS with a small cross pattee in the centre. The obverse reads JOHANNES COMES HAIN and shows a rider in armour on a horse galloping left, wearing a helmet, holding reins and a shield in his left hand and a standard in his right hand. Diameter…
Created on: Thursday 9th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Massingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-078751
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval silver annular brooch. The frame is small, circular and a low D-shape in cross-section, with a constriction for the pin. It is now bent, broken across the constriction, and the pin is missing. The frame is decorated on the convex front with engraved and stamped decoration; held with the constriction at the top and reading anti-clockwise, the engraving consists of a transverse groove, then four saltires, then a half-saltire ending in a D-shaped recess. The lozenges and triangles thus formed are filled with triangular and sub-triangular punchmarks which se…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-070E37
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of medieval silver annular brooch, with a slim circular-section frame interrupted by two small irregular bosses both decorated with annulet stamps giving a 'brambled' effect. Both breaks are immediately after the boss and both are granular and unworn. The frame is now bent so that it is difficult to suggest an original diameter. Dimensions: Length of fragment, 25mm. Diameter of frame between bosses, 1.8mm. Thickness of bosses, 3-4mm. Weight 0.9g. Discussion: This type of annular brooch, with a circular wire frame interrupted by normally four bramble…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-38F2DE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Tiny silver medieval annular brooch. It has an almost circular, D-section frame with a constriction for the silver pin. Opposite this is a pin rest, and both pin constriction and pin rest are flanked by animal heads pointing towards them, perhaps intended as biting at them. Each of the four animal heads has relief ears, eyes made from annulet punches, and nostrils made from single dots. If the pin constriction is held at 12 o'clock, then at 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock is a slightly expanded raised oval zone of oblique grooves wit…
Created on: Monday 20th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th September 2023
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Record ID: LVPL-FD1108
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure case 2022 T1019 Description:  A complete silver gilt annular brooch dating to the medieval period (c.AD 1250-1400). The brooch has a quatrefoil frame with a D-shaped section. Within the corner of each lobe is a rounded knop. At the top of the frame is a narrowed constriction around which is silver pin that is wrapped once around the bar. The pin is sub-triangular in shape with a traverse collar below the loop. The reverse of the frame is flat and is decorated with zig-zag engraving. Dimensions: Length 14.20mm; width 14.94mm; thickness 1.1mm; weight 0.9g Discussion: A …
Created on: Wednesday 19th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 3rd April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E85D63
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete gilded silver disc brooch of  middle Anglo-Saxon date. About a quarter of the flat plate is now missing, but the surviving part includes the pin fixings, and part of the silver pin also survives. The front is gilded and has low-relief decoration now a little obscured by hard soil deposits, best described with the pin running horizontally and the missing area to bottom left. The design appears to be based on a cross, with four drop-shaped panels (at top left, top right, bottom right and the missing one at bottom left) each with its point towards the edge. T…
Created on: Monday 25th July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-339DEF
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval silver annular brooch with a missing pin. The complete but slightly distorted circular frame is of D-shaped cross-section with a flat reverse, and is broken across a pin constriction which lies opposite a shallow groove forming a pin rest. There is no decoration. Dimensions: External diameter 21.7mm. Width and thickness of frame in cross-section, 2.5mm and 2.1mm. Weight 2.98g. Discussion: Similar undecorated small silver annular brooches are recorded on the PAS database at SUSS-47EAE7 (2007T586), SUR-49FBD5 (2018T488, with further r…
Created on: Friday 10th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E01EFF
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Broken and distorted but complete medieval silver annular brooch. The silver frame was originally circular but is now bent or compressed out of shape, and broken at a probable seam. It is made from circular-section wire, decorated for half its length with beading or fine ribbing that runs round the whole of the wire from front to back. The break marks one end of the beading and the rest of the frame is undecorated. The silver pin also survives, with a shaft made from the same gauge of silver wire, shaped at one end to form a rounded point. The other end has …
Created on: Monday 6th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
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Record ID: BM-A8E72D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A gilded silver one-piece brooch dating to the Late Iron Age or Roman Conquest period. The brooch is slightly bent and is missing its spring and pin. The catch plate is bent over, is 17mm long and has a single simple perforation. The strip shaped bow is divided into three zones running lengthwise; both outer zones are gilded, leaving the silver from which the brooch is made exposed in the centre zone.  The wings of the brooch over the missing spring are also divided into zones, with the innermost zones both gilded. Dimensions: Overall&nb…
Created on: Tuesday 10th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-537B2E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver annular brooch, complete with gilded silver pin. Although the brooch is small, the slightly domed frame is wide, with an inner circular aperture and an outer edge shaped into eight points with concave curves between them. The front is covered with relief decoration consisting of a beaded ridge around the inner edge, and plant decoration and pellets filling the rest of the space. Eight stems spring from the central beading and run radially towards the points; they bifurcate near the top, each half curling outwards and downwards to end in an oval flower or frui…
Created on: Friday 6th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
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Record ID: BM-0BA3C7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver annular brooch, circular, but now distorted to an oval, 28 x 16mm. Original diameter c. 24mm. The 5.5mm-wide hoop, probably stamped out of a larger sheet, is bevelled or angled and pierced by a circular hole for the pin. Both edges are sharp, the outer slightly thickened, the inner with a ridge around on the front and hollowed on the reverse. The pin is of sub-triangular section and appears to have made from drawn wire, the tip cut to a point. Weighing 2.20g. Similar to 2002T40, this brooch was originally dated to the 14th century, but subsequent discoveries …
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st November 2022
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Record ID: BM-0B26A3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver annular brooch. Round-sectioned (diameter 1 mm) wire hoop with four evenly spaced, flat, <0.5mm thick, 5mm square gilt plates soldered onto the front. Each is decorated in counter relief with a cast octofoil. The ends of the hoop are carefully butt-jointed beneath one of the plates. The round sectioned pin (diam. >1mm, length 22mm) is encircled by an integral collar adjacent to the loop. It is parallel sided before tapering abruptly to a point, beneath which is a rounded notch to fit over the hoop. Diameter 20mm. Weight 2.21g. 13th - 14th century. A pewter brooch with qua…
Created on: Tuesday 15th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st November 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Watton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F56E67
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Two gilded-silver plates from an annular brooch frame. The frame was made from silver wire, and the plates are both roughly square or lozengiform. The larger plate has a short length of frame still soldered to the reverse, consisting of a curve of slim circular-section silver wire running between opposite corners. The smaller plate has a scar from a similar soldered-on piece of frame. Both plates have identical decoration on the front, of four raised lines crossing to form an eight-point star. The lines are not evenly spaced and the effect is of a cross…
Created on: Monday 14th March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-01ABE1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver coin brooch, made from a gros tournois of Floris V, Count of Holland, 1256-96; the coin was struck between 1266 and 1296.  The front of the brooch has been gilded, with extensive traces surviving especially in the centre. There is no trace of gilding to the rear, and this is unlikely to have been gilded originally. There is some delamination of the silver, with areas of the edge flaking off on both faces. There is a small part of the pin mechanism surviving, made of circular-section wire, soldered to the rear; to either side of this surviving part …
Created on: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Erpingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-279F9E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete Late Saxon cloisonné enamelled and gilded copper-alloy disc brooch with remains of a silver pin mechanism, of Weetch’s (2014) Type 20.B. On the front there is a central circular field containing a floral motif composed of cells (also called cloisons) filled with enamel, now shattered. This is surrounded by an outer ring of twelve closely spaced and now mostly vacant sub-circular cells. All of this is mounted onto a flat backplate with soldered-on silver pin fixings. The central field is enclosed by a double-walled hoop of metal and is sub…
Created on: Friday 5th March 2021
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-8210DA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Brooch made from a gilded silver gros tournois of Philip IV of France (ruled 1285-1314). Obverse: central cross with surrounding inscription in two concentric rings. The outer ring reads + BNEDICTV: SIT: NOMEN: DOMINI (although much of this inscription is now worn and difficult to read). The inner ring reads PHILIPPVS REX. Reverse: Chatel Tournois (a stylised tower) with an inner inscription reading TVRONVS CIVIS and an outer border of encircled fleur-de-lis. As is usual with coin brooches of this type, the obverse - with the cross - has been chosen as the …
Created on: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 20th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-E845D8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval annular brooch, made from thin silver sheet, now slightly bent.. Circular, with wide frame on a slight convex angle, decorated with nine oblique, slightly curving rows of addorsed punched triangles (also called interrupted rocker-arm). This decoration is interrupted by a circular pin hole which is flanked by a transverse row of similar punchmarks to either side. A silver sheet pin survives in the hole, with an open loop and no decoration. It is tilted at the tip to sit neatly on the frame. The reverse of the frame is concave and undecorated. Dimensions: Diam…
Created on: Friday 13th November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weeting', grid reference and parish protected.