Record ID: NARC-9766B2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Brooch of Roman date (AD 130-360). The object is a Colchester derivative, Polden Hill type, of Mackreth 2011, Chapter 3, Part 3. Group 4i. The object is composed of semi-cylindrical wings, the right hand of which is missing due to an old break, with outer raised collared ends with a short spur which would have formed a rear-hook at the top of the head. The spring, pin and axis bar are missing. The bowhead is hump-like in profile and is decorated with a raised central rib, with repeating short transverse lines over, flanked by raised lines. The …
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
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Record ID: ESS-85F1CA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy brooch (disc) of early medieval date (c. AD 410-600). Description: The brooch is broadly circular in plan and flat in cross-section. It is decorated with five ring-and-dot motifs with the one at the centre having an extra, fainter ring and a larger 'dot'. The reverse of the brooch has the remains of a semi-circular pin lug with traces of iron corrosion from the now missing pin. Most of the catch plate remains, with some of the curved edge having broken away. There is blue copper-alloy solder below and…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-855A96
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy T-shaped Roman brooch, Large south-western type of AD 2nd century date. The foot and base of the pin are missing.  The wings are cylindrical and house an iron axis bar for the pin. At the head is the stub of a pierced headplate. The head is flat and angled downwards from the wings. Below this, the bow is angled further and tapers to the break. The front of the bow is decorated with two moulded longitudinal ridges.
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
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Record ID: WMID-84A71D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a copper-alloy Trumpet brooch of Roman date, circa AD 75-200. The brooch fragment consists of only the lower bow, foot and catchplate. The lower bow has a sub-triangular cross setction and has no decoration present. The foot consists of a rounded knop. At the reverse, the catchplate is solid.  The brooch is dark green in colour and has an even surface patina.  Measurements: length 40.9 mm, width 6.9mm, thickness inc catchplate 11.5mm, weight 4.9 grams
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-831F8E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy Roman trumpet brooch dating from AD 75 - 175. Only the middle of the bow survives. It has a very worn acanthus moulding, of three petals above and three below a central disc. The moulding continues round the back of the bow. There is a worn collar above and below. The lower bow is flat in cross-section and has a central ridge on the reverse whhich is the top of the catchplate. The breaks are worn and patinated. The fragment has a green and brown patina. It is 29.56mm long, 10.26mm wide and 7.88mm thick. It weighs 5.05g. 
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-4772CD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy La Tene III/Nauheim derivative type bow brooch dating to the late Iron Age or early Roman period, 35mm in length, comprising the bow and a stump of the spring, which is 8mm in diameter and made from the same piece of metal as the rest of the brooch. The bow is lozengiform with a flat cross sectional profile and is decorated with a line of punched S-shapes along the centre and linear external borders. The pin and most of the spring is missing as is the foot and catchplate.
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: SF-4769EB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete  copper-alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) Type 2.2.4 of Martin Cruciform brooch type B - AD475-550 (Martin, 2015, pg29, 37, 38 (fig 14) and 128). Only the foot of the brooch survives with an old break across the upper end of the flat panel. Only half the catchplate survives to the reverse of the rectangular flat panel. Above the head is the half-round panel which has moulded transverse grooves. It is defined by a zoomorphic section moulded to look like the head of an animal, probably a horse, with small projecting pellet eyes to either…
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: SF-46E26A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman brooch. A round, gilded, brooch with a enamel filled stud fastened in the middle from which raidated a set of five ribs, of which only two remain. The pin and catchplate are missing. There is evidence of red enamel (Mackreth, 2011, pg 162). A similar example can be seen in Mackreth, 2011, pg 110, plate 107, 10947).  Diameter: 23.57mm Weight: 5.93g
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Redgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-454737
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy continental plate brooch, dating to c.AD 80 BC - 250. The brooch appears to have originally been trefoil shaped in plan, one of the lobes is missing. Each lobe is decorated with a convex circular boss. At the top of the brooch is a drop shaped protrusion which to the rear houses the lug to support the now missing pin. Part of the catchplate remains and sits in the centre of the lower lobe.  Length: 31.1 mm Width: 17.7 mm Thickness: 7.1 mm Weight: 5.22 g A similar brooch is illustrated in Mackreth, plate 118 no 1473 An identical…
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: SF-436A46
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman brooch dating to the 2nd Century. The brooch is D shaped in profile, symmetrical on both axes with upright bead terminal with a ridge across the top. The pin is missing, the  but the remains of a catch plate can be seen on the reverse of the terminal. The panel forming the bow is rectangular, with a design divided into three horizontal panels, the outer repeating each other. There is evidence of enamelling and beading, with small cells for enamel. There is evidence of a white metal coating. The patina is corroded, with a green and purple colour. A …
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stoke-by-Nayland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-321D6A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Trumpet brooch of Roman date, c. AD 75 - 175. Mackreth 2011, Standard Trumpet Type 1b1, Plate 79, no.5099 [hinged]. The head is ovate with an integral hinge fitting in the form of two tubular lugs to the reverse. An axis bar remains fitted through the lugs with worn breaks to either end and at the centre slot. A circular sectioned pin remains fitted around the bar by a closed loop and tapers to a worn point. The front of the head is decorated with a ridged border and a circular sectioned bow extends from the centre of the front of the head curving to a semi-…
Created on: Thursday 14th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
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Record ID: SF-2EF885
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman Colchester derivative brooch with double pierced lug. Half the spring is missing, the pin and wings are incomplete. The lug becomes a central rib on the upper bow, with moulded grooves on either side. The flat centre rib of the lower bow has lightly incised rocker decoration. The catchplate is folded over and has a groove where the pin would lie when closed (Blagg et al., 2004, pg 94-95, plate 88).  Weight: 6.57g Length: 39.85mm Width: 19.72mm
Created on: Thursday 14th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Polstead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-2EC13C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Headstud Brooch of Roman date (AD 70-160). The object is composed of rectangular wings which are decorated with a vertical groove, the outer edges of the wings are missing due to old, abraded breaks. The reverse of the head retains a rolled cylindrical tube, with a central rectangular slot, through which a partial wire pin projects. The axis bar and spring are largely retained within the back of the head. There is a central, partially retained loop projecting from the upper edge of the head which now forms a single spur. A rectangular sectioned bow …
Created on: Thursday 14th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: WAW-2D8838
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, copper alloy Roman brooch, most likely a Trumpet brooch dating c. AD 100-250. Only the foot, catch plate, and part of the bow remain. There is an abraded break at the top of the object, which is followed by a central knop flanked at top and bottom by two raised discs and separated by them by horizontal grooves, with another horizontal groove after the bottom raised disc. The knop is decorated with two arched grooves, one facing upwards and the other downwards. After this groove, there is a shallow, short (c.2.85mm long) vertical groove remaining that leads from this, th…
Created on: Thursday 14th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: NLM-2BC2F9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy annular brooch. Annular brooch with pin, turret settings with remains of now-white inlay or fixative. Suggested date: Medieval, 1200-1350 Diameter: 21.9mm, Thickness: 6.6mm, Weight: 4.44gms
Created on: Thursday 14th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: WAW-201BA3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early-Medieval (late 5th to 6th centuries) possible saucer brooch made from gilded copper alloy. The brooch is sub-circular and has abraded and incomplete edges. The brooch has a border in light relief around the circumference. The brooch has been decorated in Style I with two beasts chasing each other around the brooch in light relief. The beasts circle around a centrally placed circular domed boss surrounded by a raised border. There appear to be three beasts depicted around the central boss. The beasts has pointed beaks or heads with oval eyes. The reverse is flat and wit…
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: NLM-1C89C9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch fragment. Foot fragment of an Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 500-600 Length: 46.5mm, Width: 33.4mm, Thickness: 4.1mm, Weight: 13.23gms
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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Record ID: NLM-1C509D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cremated fragment of a Great Square Headed brooch, two rear lugs. Northern type. suggested date: Early Medieval, 500-575 Length: 31.5mm, Width: 34mm, Thickness: 5.5mm, Weight: 16.08gms.
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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Record ID: NLM-1C2958
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch. T-shaped brooch, Sawfish type with sitting animal on bow, Mackreth typeTBC. Some trace of tinning/silvering. suggested date: Early Roman, 60-100 TBC Length: 43.6mm, Width: 26.6mm, Thickness (?): 17.8mm, Weight: 9.03gms
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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Record ID: NLM-1B9211
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch. Headstud brooch, hinged, very corroded, Mackreth type Headstud TBC. Suggested date: Early Roman, 75-125 TBC Length: 38.0mm, Width: 12.6mm, Thickness(?): 14.2mm, Weight: 6.71gms 
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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