Record ID: GLO-132237
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver annular brooch that has a semicircular cross-section frame with a constriction to one side to mount the pin. The frame is decorated with four animal heads that are arranged into two set. The first group is bordering the constriction bar with the two heads facing each other and the bar in between. Each head has a raised, square cranium with pellet eyes in the two froward faceted corners and upwardly projecting knop ears above the rear two corners. The narrowed snout is bevelled on either side and grips the constriction between the two heads. This is mirrored on the opposite sid…
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-605466
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Description & identification The reported object is a small silver annular brooch with integral pin (frame misshapen. The frame is decorated with continuous transverse incised bands or ridges on the front surface, some of which are inlaid with a darker material, possibly niello. On the reverse frame are four groups of evenly spaced bands. The dagger-like pin is attached by a wraparound head, decorated with three irregularly spaced parallel grooves. A stirrup at the junction of the pin shaft and head has two corresponding arms, each tapering to a point at the tip. The stirrup is cur…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penllyn Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-BAE8AA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver-gilt brooch. Silver gilt anthropomorphic annular brooch, rude. On left naked female, on right male wearing a piped headdress; the pin projects from the [draped] groin of the male and extends towards the pudenda of the female; a phallic conceit would be emphasised by the passage of pin through a hole in a strap. Suggested date: Medieval, 1300-1400 Height: 16.1mm, Width: 11.5mm, Thickness: 3.4mm, Weight: 1.34gms.
Created on: Thursday 1st February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
No spatial data available.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-1E195B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver annular brooch fragment. Fragment of a silver annular brooch, with diamond shaped decorative plaque soldered onto it. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1350 Height: 24.5mm, Width: 10.2mm, Thickness: 3.7mm, Weight: 1.63gms
Created on: Thursday 7th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-DC6A08
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver brooch fragments. Two joining cast fragments of a brooch with interlace ornament on its display side and relict pin gear on an otherwise plain reverse; the source record suggests gilding and niello to be present on the display face and identifies this as of Terslev Style (Kershaw 2010 no. 32). The suggested material and age of the object may require its submission to the Treasure process, ref. TBC. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 900-1000 Length: 27mm, Width: 24mm, Thickness: 6.4mm, Weight: 4.93gms
Created on: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-B50BC3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver annular brooch that has a circular cross-section frame with a constriction in one side for the pin. The pin is complete and made from silver, one side of which has been formed into a loop to enable attachment to the frame, a flanged transvers ridge decorated with stamped annulars and separates the loop from the main shaft of the pin. Brooches of this material, form and style of decoration are generally dated to c. AD 1200-1400 with various examples published in Egan & Pritchard (2002: 249-254). Comparable examples reported through the treasure process, include SWYOR-C6ABCA …
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: GLO-B41284
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval silver annular brooch dating to c.1600-1700. The brooch consists of a circular frame, that has a flat rectangular cross-section set at an oblique angle. A circular hole mounts the silver pin that has a curved penannular loop for attachment.  Similar Post-Medieval examples have been reported at treasure HAMP-974996 (2017 T530) and KENT-589DC5 (2018 T579).  These brooches can have a date range from 1500-1700. An example recorded at GLO-E7A921 (2020 T374) benefited from a makers mark enabling more accurate dating to the 17th century. Conclusion: In terms of ag…
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-B33166
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE : 2023 T1131. Description:  An incomplete silver Trumpet brooch of Roman date, c. AD 75 - 175. Mackreth 2011, Standard Trumpet Type 1.a1c, Plate 79, no.5091. The head is ovate with a single centrally positioned integral vertical lug to the reverse. An axis bar remains fitted through the lug. One end curves round to form an incomplete head loop and terminates in a worn break. The other end of the axis bar terminates in an upward curve and worn break at the end of the spring. Seven (7) turns of the spring remain around the axis bar. The outer tur…
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMGW-CF4403
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description and identification Two halves of a decorated silver annular brooch frame. It is misshapen, with each part forming an elongated ‘U’ shape, which was once likely circular. The level of distortion obscures the form of the decoration on each ‘face’. There are regular, equally spaced notches infilled with niello across one ‘face’, with intermittent groups of four or five incised or stamped dots.  The other ‘face’ is largely plain with occasional groups of notches visible in one area. The two halves join at one break but do n…
Created on: Thursday 9th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wiston Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-A2CAD3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Description of the finds Silver crossbow brooch, complete and well preserved with little sign of corrosion, apart from the pin, which is of copper alloy and only survives as badly corroded fragments. The knob at the head is quasi-onion shape rising from a double ridged collar. The arms are a hexagonal tube that houses a copper alloy axial bar for the pin, which was hinged. At each end there is a knob, the same as that at the head of the brooch. The bow is narrow and undecorated apart from at the junction of the bow with the foot, where a length of silver wire is coiled round the bow f…
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Five Mile Lane', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-379142
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Description & identification The plain pin has a broad wrap around head and transverse raised ridge at the junction with the shaft. Length 28mm; head width 5mm (incomplete); weight 0.99g. The object has not undergone any cleaning or conservation. To judge from its colour and weight and visual comparison with brooches and other silver dress accessories in the collections of the Department of History & Archaeology, the alloy is well in excess of 10% silver. Conclusions The pin form and width indicate that it is from a medieval annular brooch of thirteenth or early fourteenth…
Created on: Thursday 2nd November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llantwit Major Community', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-E5F64F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval silver annular brooch with decorative twisted (cable pattern) frame, dating to c. AD 1200-1400. The frame is slightly bent. There is a small constriction to hold the pin, which has broken with the result that the pin has been lost. The decoration comprises a cable-style twisted pattern all around the frame with four facets, each containing a line of stamped, raised pellets. Dimensions: Diameter: 24.6mm; thickness: 1.8mm; weight: 1.58g. Discussion: A parallel example is published by Egan & Pritchard (1991: 253) no. 1334, dating to c. AD 1200-1…
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Central Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B7DAA3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver annular brooch. Small annular brooch, silver gilt, animal heads. Suggested date: Medieval, 1300-1400 Diameter: 12.6mm, Thickness: 1.3mm, Weight: 0.61gms
Created on: Thursday 3rd August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-3D3B31
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Langton Down brooch dating to AD 20-65. T-shaped in plan, the piece is virtually complete save for the missing spring mechanism and the fact that much of the wings have broken away. The complete wings would have been cylindrical with straight, solid edges. The wings are now broken, essentially hemispherical and leave a void where the spring mechanism would have rested. The pin would have projected from a median voided slot. The upper bow is rectangular in plan and plano-convex in section and projects from the wi…
Created on: Friday 28th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Debden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-BCDD97
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case 2023 T662 Description:  A fragment of a silver-gilt (silver gilded with gold) Aesica brooch from the early Romano-British period later first to early second century AD c.AD 50–125 . Mackreth 2011, AESICA, not further defined. Only the foot of the brooch survives, which is incomplete and a trapezoidal 'fantail' shape. Its outer face is decorated with a central longitudinal bordered Y-shaped feature flanked by swirling designs of trumpet or tendril scrolls in relief. There is also evidence that, according to the small area of outside edge which remains,…
Created on: Monday 10th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burneston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-7E0637
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a silver gilt annular brooch of medieval date (c.1200-1300). Description: The fragment remains as one of the two zoomorphic terminals that would have been joined by a bar around which the pin would have looped. The fragment is shallow D-shaped in cross section and curved in plan. The terminal is in the form of an uncertain beast's head with a rounded snout and inset eyes. The beast's head has a central line either side of which are diagonally incised strokes, indicating fur which end in small mouldings, possibly ears. Beyond these, the brooch is decorated with a …
Created on: Friday 7th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Writtle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-59E4FC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver annular brooch that has a circular frame that is square cross-section. The frame is decorated with a line of closely spaced pellets on the face and reverse that are bordered by a raised band on both the inside and outside edges.  A constriction for the pin on one side of the frame retains the silver pin, this has an annular loop secured around constriction, the shaft of the pin has a circular cross-section and narrows to a point. An identical example was found at Tytherington in South Gloucestershire and recorded at GLO-315581 (2013T391).
Created on: Wednesday 5th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 12th July 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-724327
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver annular brooch. The brooch is circular although the frame is now distorted into a sub-oval shape.It is formed of silver wire wrapped around a central silver wire frame, in very detailed and elaborate form which creates a box shaped profile. Some three quarters of this wrapped wire decoration remains, the rest of the frame consists only of the central wire. The pin is intact although no longer closes because of the distortion to the brooch, is it an elongated triangular shape and is attached by wrapping around the frame: at this point the frame is not…
Created on: Monday 12th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hoff', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-DA9D3D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver annular brooch. The brooch is complete although twisted and folded, and appears to have been cut or stamped from a blank. It is made from thin silver, approximately 0.5mm thick, and 6mm wide. The hole for the pin has been crudely punched from the back of the brooch, the end of the pin is looped through this to secure it. The pin is pointed at the termination. The brooch is plain apart from a mark punched into the back that may be a hallmark or initials - shown in the inset of the image. It looks like a very elaborate I or L, and H, or possibly W and D. …
Created on: Monday 5th June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 18th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sawtry', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-9DDF35
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case 2023 T522. An incomplete, medieval, cast, silver-gilt annular brooch dating to the 13th to 14th centuries AD. Only about half of the object has survived. The ends are truncated and the patina indicates an old break. The annular frame is plano-convex with a slightly rounded convex decorated side and a constriction for a missing pin. It has three evenly spaced circular projections along the surviving piece, collets, with a hollowed top, two of which contain a pink/light red gemstone. Between each collet is a repeating motif of a raised l…
Created on: Friday 2nd June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Surfleet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8ACB1A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Langton Down brooch dating to AD 20-65. T-shaped in plan, the extant piece consists of the wings and upper bow. The wings are cylindrical with straight, solid edges. A longitudinal seam runs along the reverse of the wings.  In the centre is a now heavily abraded slot for the now missing hinged in to be housed within. A decorative incised groove is positioned on the top of the wings. The bow is straight, plano-convex in section and tapers gently into an old break. Separating the bow from the wings is crescentic groove…
Created on: Thursday 1st June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford', grid reference and parish protected.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-B62774
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2023 T455. Description:  A complete silver-gilt annular brooch of medieval date, c.AD 1200 – 1400. The frame is circular with a rectangular section and a constriction for the pin. A triangular pin remains looped around the frame by a rectangular sectioned closed loop. The shaft of the pin has a tapering rectangular section and an expanded collar is present at the junction between the loop and the shaft. The collar bears transverse groove decoration. The front surface of the frame is decorated with a rocker arm design. The reverse is flat and undecorated…
Created on: Wednesday 10th May 2023
Last updated: Friday 3rd November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LVPL-0B9532
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2023 T420 Description: A fragment of an early medieval silver bossed penannular brooch dating to c.AD 875-950. The object is a fragment with worn edges on each side and is decorated on both faces. The front face is decorated with raised concentric circles focused around a rivet hole that held a now missing boss. The circles consist of a thick circular band immediately around the perforation, a second thinner band encircles this which is followed by a third circle made of small pellets. A fourth and final circle encompasses the circles within and appears to extend furthe…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-140F52
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver pin from a medieval brooch, probably of annular type, probably dating to AD 1200-1500 The pin is 43.86mm in length and has a flattened and D- shaped cross section with a flat reverse and tapers to a pointed tip.The articulation loop is oval with circular punched decoration and measures 5.11mm in width. Below is a moulded rectangular collar on the curved side of the bin. The underside of the pin has a distinctive patch of corrosion running from the end to the tip. This may relate to use, perhaps representing an area in regular prolonged contact with ac…
Created on: Thursday 20th April 2023
Last updated: Sunday 11th February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

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: 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: 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: WMID-9A9BC2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete, silver penannular brooch of Early Medieval date that is divided into four fragments and is decorated with gold filigree inlay. Two of the fragments comprise part of the silver frame of the object. The first fragment is an incomplete, semi-circular fragment with two damaged terminals. It has a roughly sub-oval cross section with a flat, undecorated reverse. The upper face has three broadly sub-rectangular cells. These held decorative gold plates with gold filigree decoration. The central panel is missing, whilst the left- and right-hand panels remain, though…
Created on: Thursday 9th March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-88B287
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver gilt annular brooch dating c. AD 1350-1400. The brooch is circular in plan and plano-convex in section and is decorated with two oval knops with a bramble design situated opposite each other and at 90-degree angles to the pin. These knops and gilding extend to the reverse of the frame. The pin is comprised of a single cast piece of silver that is attached to a slight indent on the frame of the brooch with a folded open loop, and tapers to a point that is slightly bent. At the joint between the loop and shaft, the pin has…
Created on: Wednesday 8th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 15th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-0BCDB6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case 2023 T213 A post-medieval silver annular brooch dating to c.1600-1700. The brooch is now in three pieces. The pin shaft is missing. It consists of a circular convex frame with rounded exterior surfaces set at an oblique angle. The reverse is concave. There is a pin constriction flanked by collars with 4 incised vertical lines on one side and 3 on the other. The pin is represented by a silver C-shaped loop. On the inside of the frame, near the constriction, is a maker's mark 'M'. Measurements Diameter: 24.04 mm; Thickness: 0.84…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roxholm', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-0A629A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval cast gilded silver object, possibly a cruciform brooch knob. The object is sub rectangular in form with a raised central humanoid face bordered by a projecting zoomorphic figure on one side. The reverse of the object is hollow, with intrigal cast rectangular backing plates that contain cast perforations  at the top and the bottom; presumably to hold a pin to attach the knop to the main brooch. The perforation at the top is open ( c-shaped) and the perforation at the bottom is enclosed.  The front of the object is decorated with a stylised human h…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Last updated: Monday 25th September 2023
No spatial data available.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-A3E70D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver-gilt annular brooch, of fede type, dating to the Medieval period, c. AD. 1200-1400. The brooch is small and formed of a frame, circular in plan, which tapers at 12 o’clock into the form of two clasped hands in prayer projecting from the brooch. The two hands are defined, with the thumbs facing outward and linear grooves forming individual fingers. Soil remains between the clasped hands. There is a raised collar beneath the hands forming a cuff. The frame has a low triangular cross section, formed by a central ridge running around the frame. The frame is decor…
Created on: Monday 13th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 12th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Ashton', grid reference and parish protected.

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.

Record ID: SUR-E90A6B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval silver annular brooch dating to c.1600-1700. The brooch consists of a circular frame, 23.9mm in diameter that has a convex frame 3,2mm wide with rounded exterior surfaces set at an oblique angle. The reverse is concave. There is a pin constriction flanked by collars with pairs of transverse decorative grooves. The pin is retained and has a flat triangular cross section. There are no maker's marks.
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 13th April 2023
Spatial data recorded.