Record ID: NMS-3FC1E7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon Ansate brooch, discoidal terminals, both with engraved cross, D-sectioned bow, pierced lug with corroded remains of iron pin and bent catch-plate on reverse, 18 x 47mm. 8th-9th century.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Costessey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-400AA7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early Saxon small-long brooch, head missing, broken at springing of facetted bow, on either side of a transverse rib there are bordering lines of double C-shaped or lunate stamps on the facetted panel and along the sides and base of the splayed and chamfered foot, broken catch-plate on reverse, ancient and partly molten breaks. >18 x 36mm.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4069A0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon continental radiate-headed brooch, very worn and corroded, damaged head-plate with three of originally five integral cast knobs, semi-circular plate with twin engraved bordering lines containing multiple vertical lines, flattened remains of broken bow with vertical line of three dots on median rib between moulded zig-zag lines in relief, transverse lines at break where foot missing. Slight stump of pin-lug on reverse, catch-plate missing. cf. other examples from Norfolk in Ashley et al. (1990) fig.1, nos. 1 and 2 and Ashley and Rogerson (1992) no.1. 6th century.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Costessey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-55AC65
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch of the florid type, corroded fragment from top knob, elaborate mask with prominent brows, eyes, nose and moustache and splayed triangular projection at terminal, broken across part of upper edge of plate (old break) with small bordering rectangular stamps. 25 x >25mm. Leeds and Pocock (1971) Group V. Mid 6th century.
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EA46E8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon small-long brooch of Leeds (1945) square-headed (plain) type, footplate missing. Headplate with rows of dot-in-half-annulet stamped impressions along rather battered top edge and sides. D-sectioned bow with, at top and base, a rectangular panel forming facets. Both panels with transverse row of the same dot-in-half-annulet stamps. Ancient break at base of bow. On reverse single pin lug with remains of iron spring. Length >33mm. Width of headplate 20mm. Width of bow 8mm. 6th century.
Created on: Thursday 31st May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fransham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3F3664
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon Cruciform brooch, Group 1, rectangular head-plate with narrow wings and integral full-round top knob (actually of rounded sub-trapezoidal section), the slight vertical arris on both divisions between head-plate and wings lies between two lines of confronted double C-shaped stamps, broken (ancient break) at springing of missing bow, single pieced lug on reverse. 28 x >38mm. 5th century.
Created on: Monday 4th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7BB2D7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilt fragment of head-plate from an Early Saxon Great Square-Headed brooch, broken and bent, comprising undecorated fragment of head-plate second panel on one side of plain frame and inner panel with running loops containing pellets (as on example from Spong Hill, Hines fig.63c) and square bosses at angles and more elaborate boss at base of undecorated central bar between two square perforations (broken across one). Broken perforated pin lugs on reverse (ancient breaks). Hines' Group XVI, see example from Ely-High Barns, plate 93(a). 6th-century.
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilketshall St Andrew/Ilketshall St John', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A512D5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon Cruciform brooch, corroded, molten and distorted, head and bow missing, one surviving of originally two lappets flanking flat panel above horizontal panel and animal-head terminal with traces of eyes, eyebrows and damaged nostrils, broken catch-plate on reverse, ancient breaks. >20 x 51mm. 6th century.
Created on: Thursday 21st June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stradsett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B42AD2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early Saxon copper alloy cruciform brooch, corroded, broken above transverse grooves on rectangular panel, transverse moulding and narrow animal-head terminal with vertical median line of tiny addorsed triangular stamps running between damaged eyes, broken across end of snout, remains of broken catch-plate on reverse. Ancient breaks. 6 x >30mm. Åberg group I. 5th century.
Created on: Monday 16th July 2007
Last updated: Monday 23rd July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Acle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4BB262
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon small-long brooch of Leeds 1945 trefoil headed type, class d, lower footplate missing. On the headplate only one bifid lateral lobe survives. The top and edges of the panel are decorated with rows of double concentric half-annulet stamps, and a similar row marks the inner edge of the lobe. The D-sectioned bow is decorated with a pair of median grooves and at the top and base with a rectangular panel forming facets, both panels carrying a pair of transverse grooves. Only one square lappet, decorated with two more half-annulet stamps, is extant. There is another p…
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2007
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Grimston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4BDA38
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early Saxon cast annular brooch, about one quarter extant, one end broken across pin hole. Decorated with a row of half annular stamps along both edges. Diameter 50mm. Width 7.5mm. Thickness 1.5mm. Breaks not recent. 6th century.
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Grimston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4CAEF1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early Saxon annular brooch, slightly more than one quarter extant, cast, decorated with row of punched dots along inner and outer edges. Uneven median hollow on underside. breaks not recent. External diameter 38mm. Internal diameter 26mm. 6th century.
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Acre', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4CCAB1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two small fragments of Early Saxon gilt great square-headed brooches, 6th century. - footplate inner panel, lozengiform, centre pierced iron rivet, probably for repair, no edges extant. Any decoration within the lozenge is obscured by iron corrosion. Breaks ancient. >14 x >19mm. - upper right-hand fragment of footplate inner panel frame and part of upper border. Breaks ancient, but with recent damage. >13 x >17mm.
Created on: Monday 23rd July 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Acre', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-898ED7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fully-round cast-in-one side knob from Early Saxon cruciform brooch, corroded and covered in iron corrosion, groove on inner face to fit against head-plate, longitudinally pierced by iron pin-bar, much iron corrosion in waist. Length 9mm, oval-sectioned 9 x 8mm.
Created on: Thursday 26th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elm', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8C87D1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon long brooch (probably small-long), headplate missing, broken bow with slightly splayed foot with engraved transverse lines and fragment of catch-plate on reverse. Ancient breaks. >7 x >28mm
Created on: Thursday 26th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caistor St Edmuund', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DCB678
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lower part of footplate of Early Saxon small-long brooch, upper part missing, broken at top of concave-sided foot that flares to a straight terminal with horizontal rib, bordering lines of tiny stamped annulets on both sides. Break probably not ancient. 15 x >14mm. 1.5mm thick. 6th century AD.
Created on: Monday 30th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hevingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F130A5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, Early Saxon cast annular brooch, about half extant, slightly distorted, and worn. One end broken. At the other the hoop stops abruptly, and is continued by the stub of a very narrow bar for the (missing) pin. On the front a row of three-spoked stamps is bordered on the inside by an engraved line. Within this are a number of short radially engraved lines and what may just possibly be some runic figures. Hoop width 8mm, thickness 2mm. Diameter c.40mm.
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2007
Last updated: Monday 12th March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F20BF7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle Saxon ansate brooch, one extant circular terminal decorated with one and probably three punched dots, distorted D-section bow, transverse pin lug with remains of iron pin loop. Terminal diameter 11.5mm. Bow width 4mm. Hübener 1972 Gruppe 1. 8th – 9th century.
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thornham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3DF2D1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lower part of bow and footplate of Early Saxon small-long brooch. Flat D-sectioned bow ending in rectangular panel forming facets and decorated with a pair of transverse grooves and side notches. The footplate begins with a pair of transverse grooves above chamfered sides running down to a very simple half-round moulding. The base of the splayed terminal is marked by a ribbed moulding. Incomplete catchplate on reverse. The break across the bow is not ancient. Minor recent surface damage. The basal rib is a common feature, e.g. Leeds 1945, fig. 8 a and c. 6th century.
Created on: Tuesday 28th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Feltwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5687A7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two late early-medieval cast Borre-style disc brooches with edge damage. 1. With substantial edge damage. Extremely worn decoration of concave-sided lozenge with each of the four corners extended to form interlaced knots. In the centre is a sunken circular field. On the reverse are the remains of a pin-lug and a broken catch-plate. Iron corrosion around the pin-lug and catch-plate indicates that the brooch was fastened with an iron pin (now missing). Weight: 4.48g. Maximum diameter: 27mm 2. With some edge-damage. Extremely worn decoration of concave-sided lozenge with each of th…
Created on: Wednesday 29th August 2007
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.