Record ID: SWYOR-F0F880
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver probable annular brooch (incomplete) or large finger ring of the Medieval period, probably AD 1200 - 1350. The hoop is triangular in cross section with an inscription on the two outer faces.  +DEINE : [-]INISAT+AVE + INVF : TRV : VIR[...] : IRNA[-] The colons have been used to transcribe a group of four small recessed dots in a lozenge shape. The tops of the letters are adjacent to the central line of the hoop on both external faces. The lettering is in a slightly unusual medieval style, with square topped As and angular closed Es. Some Ns, or suspected …
Created on: Monday 13th March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-8E5197
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A nearly complete silver Roman brooch; an unusual trumpet brooch dating from AD 75 - 175, which does not fit neatly into Mackreth's (2011) groups. The trumpet head is semi-circular with a straight top and curved lower edge. The lower edge is decorated on the edge with longitudinal grooves. Unusually, the reverse of the trumpet is deeply hollow. The upper bow has a central vertical arris and three curved chevron mouldings above the knop, but is otherwise plain. On the reverse, instead of a loop to hold the pin mechanism, there is an integrally cast bar running vertically across the …
Created on: Monday 7th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 27th June 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-9E392A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver medieval annular brooch dating from AD 1200 - 1400. The frame is circular in plan, with a pin constriction. The frame is flat and rectangular in cross-section, probably cut from thick sheet. The front face is decorated with incised line borders and transverse lines. The pin missing, and the reverse is plain. The brooch is 19.9mm diameter, 1.3mm thick and 0.9g. Other sheet metal annular brooches include SWYOR-CDF0DB (2021 T537), BM-1A2026 (2012 T452) and SWYOR-86F704 (2012 T607). They are all assigned to the 13th and 14th centuries, and annular brooches are …
Created on: Thursday 8th September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-0CC86E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval silver annular brooch dating from AD 1200 - 1400. The annular frame is circular in cross-section and plain. It has snapped at one point and is slightly distorted. The pin is cast silver. The loop is a tab bent into an open loop, and there is a brambled (punched with annulets) transverse ridge across the junction between the loop and the pin. The pin is oval in cross-section and tapers. The tip has broken off. The brooch is 31mm long, 28.5mm wide and 4.8mm thick across the loop of the pin. 4.9g. A brooch with a similar pin, but cabled frame, is NMS-63D2BE (2015 T312).&n…
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2021
Last updated: Saturday 7th October 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-A6F5F8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver wire Medieval annular brooch dating from about AD 1200 - 1400. The frame is oval and the pin survives. In cross-section, the frame is a square with concave sides. It is formed from thin silver wire which has been woven, plaited or knitted together to form a square sectioned cord with a ridge at each corner, which has then been twisted to create a cable effect round the frame. The frame thus has four spiralling ridges with the ends fursed together at the constriction where the pin is attached. The frame is a hollow network of interwoven wires, rather than a solid sin…
Created on: Thursday 28th October 2021
Last updated: Saturday 7th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Kelsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-FFB524
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver Medieval annular brooch dating from AD 1300 - 1400. The frame is circular in plan, with a pin constriction. The frame is flat and rectangular in cross-section. The pin survives intact; it is also silver and is oval in cross-section, tapering towards the blunt point. It has a transverse collar and then is looped round the frame. Both faces of the brooch frame are inscribed. The letters have been incised and each letter is a series of dots or short dashes. Some are blundered or oddly spaced. It appears to read (in French): CIL . A CON VIE …
Created on: Wednesday 20th October 2021
Last updated: Saturday 7th October 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-424354
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Roman trumpet brooch dating from AD 75 - 175. The oval trumpet head is plain apart from a flat rim round the edge of the trumpet mouth. Behind the head is a single loop to secure the pin and spring mechanism which is missing. The upper bow is oval in cross section with a faint arris on the front face. There is a triple moulding above the bow moulding; a beaded collar flanked by a plain collar on each side. The acanthus moulding has five petals above and five below a central plain collar. The moulding extends round the back of the bow. Another triple moulding matching the first…
Created on: Monday 11th October 2021
Last updated: Saturday 7th October 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-AFC8F2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gilded silver medieval annular brooch with pin, dating from the 13th century. The frame is oval, roughly D-shaped in cross-section, and moulded and decorated in the shape of two snake like beasts entwined, perhaps amphisbaenae or wyverns. The opposed heads meet at a pin constriction, and have open jaws, pellet eyes, a groove along the headand round ears. Behind the heads are long necks, decorated with a channel along the top, filled with pellets, and transverse moulded lines on the sides. Behind the necks, the body widens and is moulded to represent wings which lie flat along th…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
Last updated: Saturday 7th October 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-CDF0DB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Medieval annular brooch dating from AD 1200 - 1400. It is made from thin sheet silver, and was probably stamped. The circular frame is flat, and there is a crack across it. There is a constriction for the missing pin. One face of the brooch is decorated with radiate transverse recessed lines. The other face is slightly concave and does not appear to be decorated. It is 14.3mm diameter, 0.6mm thick and weighs 0.4g. The record for NLM-DC0A05 (2019 T364) notes that "The use of small - often very small - annular brooches had a 13th-to-14th-century fl…
Created on: Wednesday 18th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 12th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Normanby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-1F76C1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leeds
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Medieval silver annular brooch with applied lozenge shaped plates as decoration, dating from AD 1250 - 1350. The brooch has a circular frame which is also circular in cross-section. It is decorated with four separate square plates, soldered to the front face of the frame. Each plate is orientated as a lozenge, with opposing corners in line with the frame. Each is decorated with a grooved cross saltire. Traces of gilding survive within the grooves. The brooch pin also survives. It is also silver and is D shaped in cross section. It tapers from about 3.5mm wide to a blunt poin…
Created on: Monday 30th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 12th July 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-16F582
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Medieval silver gilt annular brooch dating from AD 1200 - 1400. The brooch frame is hexagonal in plan, though only one side and two partial sides survive. At each change of angle is a projecting flat trefoil shape. The external sides of the frame are concave. One partial side surviving includes the remains of a constriction for the pin, which is missing. The frame is rectangular in cross-section, wider than it is tall, and is decorated on both faces. On one face (the inscribed one) there is an incised line along each side of the frame near the outer edge. This is …
Created on: Monday 10th February 2020
Last updated: Thursday 1st July 2021
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Record ID: SWYOR-1AD008
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unusual annular Medieval silver gilt zoomorphic brooch in the form of two intertwined snakes, probably dating from AD 1200 - 1400. The brooch is unusual because the frame is made in two pieces. Each piece is a C shape, of greater diameter in the middle, and tapering to the ends. The ends coil into a loop, back over the frame, so the terminals are on the outside of the frame. The terminals of one C shaped piece are modelled as snakes' or serpents' heads. The terminals of the other piece are both missing. The front of the frame is decorated with longitudinal grooves and small tr…
Created on: Wednesday 29th January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 29th April 2021
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Record ID: SWYOR-B58303
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval incomplete silver annular brooch dating from AD 1230 - 1350. Only half of the frame survives, and the pin is missing. The frame is circular in cross-section and is broken across a constriction where the pin would have been attached. Half of the surviving frame is decorated on the front face only. There are a series of annulet stamps and oblique, U-sectioned grooves, but an overall design is not obvious. A deeper, wide groove across the frame marks the end of the decoration. It is uncertain whether this is intentional or damage. The rest of the frame is plan and has a smooth…
Created on: Monday 7th October 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hodsock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-F5F95B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver and gilt brooch made from a medieval coin of Louis IX of France (AD 1226 - 1270). The coin is a Gros Tournois minted between 1266-1270, which has been gilded on the obverse face. On the reverse, there is a fixing loop and the remains of a pin. The loop and pin obscure four of the fleurs-de-lis, and the RO of TRONVS and CIV of CIVIS. Obverse: Cross pattee in the centre surrounded by the legend in two rows. Outer row reads: '+ BNDICTV: SIT: NOmE: DHI: nRI: DEI: IhV. XPI'. Inner row reads: '+ LVDOVICVS. REX'. Reverse: At centre the Chatel Tournois surrounded by the leg…
Created on: Monday 16th September 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 31st May 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-629B7F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bradford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval, silver-gilt annular brooch dating from AD 1200 - 1400. The frame is circular and has a D-shaped cross section which is plain and flat on the back and rounded on front face. There is a constriction for the pin. The frame is decorated with eight equally spaced bulbous lobes or knops on the front face. Each is decorated with punched annulets to form a "brambled boss" effect. The pin is intact and formed from a tapering strip gilded silver. It is bent into a loop at one end around the frame. The pin is also D shaped in cross-section and has a raised transver…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2019
Last updated: Friday 9th September 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-626AAC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Medieval annular brooch dating from AD 1200 - 1400. The frame is circular, with a beaded or scalloped outer edge which is cast-in-one rather than having applied decoration. The internal perimeter of the frame is a quatrefoil, with a single pellet on each of the cusps between the lobes. One cusp is missing and one is supported in place with a modern adhesive such as white-tac or putty. There is a raised plain line border along the centre of the wide front face of the frame. This is circular, with the space between it and the inner edge being thinner and flatter. On the externa…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-54AF06
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Published
A complete medieval silver annular brooch dating from AD 1200 to 1300. The brooch has a flat circular frame which is undecorated on one side and decorated on the other with paired incised lines forming chevrons and the spaces between the lines are filled with stippling. The brooch has a restriction in the frame for the pin which remains in situ. The pin is a thin triangle made from a single piece of silver looped around the frame restriction and has a slight collar by the loop. The pin has no other markings except that the pointed end has a slight bend where it meets the frame. N…
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2019
Last updated: Thursday 15th December 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-5FCDC6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval nummular brooch (coin-brooch), badge or hooked tag made from a voided long cross penny and dating from AD 1250 - 1350. The brooch displays the side of the coin with the cross on it, which has been gilded. The remains of a strip of silver forming a pin survives soldered onto the obverse of the coin. The brooch is 18.2mm in diameter, 1.3mm thick including the strip, and 1.4g. The coin is a Medieval voided long cross penny of Henry III (AD 1216 - 1272), Class 5b-c dating from AD 1250 - 1256. It was struck by Ricard at the London mint. See North (1994) English Hammered Coinage,…
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd June 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-4CCA9F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A distorted silver pennanular brooch of Iron Age to Early Medieval date, about 200 BC - AD 700, but most likely to be Early Roman (AD 70 - 200). It is Fowler / Booth class A9. The frame is flat and sub-rectangular in section and flares towards the terminals. Each terminal is globular with a flattened (slightly concave) outer face and a narrowed reel moulding behind it of three collars in relief. The pin is missing. The frame has a dark purple grey patina. The brooch has become straightened and is currently 57.8mm long, 21.4mm wide and 6mm thick at the terminals. 5.8g. Booth, A L (2…
Created on: Wednesday 4th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 18th January 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-89698B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Medieval silver annular brooch dating from AD 1200 - 1350. One face is inscribed: "AVE MARIA (G)[RAC P]" (meaning Hail Mary full of grace) but the inscription is retrograde. The As have top bars, and the E is rounded. The last letters are missing where part of the frame is lost. There is also an outer border deliminated by an incised line, and filled with oblique transverse lines. There is a constriction for the pin, but the pin is missing. The reverse of the frame is also decorated. It has incised line borders. The space between them is filled with a wavy incised line, …
Created on: Tuesday 31st October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hampole', grid reference and parish protected.