Record ID: YORYM-B664E6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast lead Late Saxon brooch. The brooch is circular and flat. It has been decorated on the front with a ladder-style border. Inside this are three crescents, each decorated with the ladder-style border. There is a raised crescent inside each one. There is a Y-shaped field between the crescents. There is a central, large pellet and a row of smaller pellets in each arm of the 'Y'. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The remains of the lug and catchplate can be seen and these have been arranged longitudinally. Both parts are badly squashed and damaged. No pin survives.
Created on: Monday 12th January 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Paull', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-B40A88
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A lead alloy early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch which is broken with two large fragments surviving and other parts missing. The brooch has a rectangular head with a raised central panel. Moulded terminals project upwards and to the sides. These consist of a central zoomorphic lobe with moulded eyes and a projecting snout with a projecting scroll on each side. The scrolls are open work and may be exaggerated nostrils or whiskers. They are tapered. Only the left hand terminal is complete. The lower edge of the head of the brooch is torn and missing, and the other surviving piece is the …
Created on: Friday 2nd November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Riding', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E8A4D5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead disc brooch of late Early-Medieval date. It is missing the pin and the outer edges of the pin lugs due to old breaks. The brooch is flat, circular in form and with relief decoration on the front face. This comprises a double stranded border within which is contained an animal or beast in the Jellinge style. The animal is positioned in a reverse S-shape and has a triangular head with oval shaped eyes and a bulbous open jaw. Extending from the base of the mouth is a double-stranded tongue that interlaces with the body and one leg. The curving neck and body run along o…
Created on: Thursday 25th November 2010
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E49135
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead brooch of 'hub-cap' type (Weetch type 17), of late Early-Medieval date, probably 10th or 11th century. It is circular, 26.7mm in diameter and 1.25mm thick, with a central circular hole (7.65mm in diameter) surrounded by a raised edge. It weighs 10.08g. There are four evenly spaced raised hollow-backed bosses or domes, 4.44mm in diameter, around the edges, each pushed up from the back of the brooch. There is a small sub-circular hole through the lead between two of the domes. There is a lead loop catchplate on the back of the brooch, and remains of an attachment point for a pin.
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2007
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF1878
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Lead-alloy/pewter 'nummular' brooch. It consists of a flat circular plate 1.5mm thick, with a beaded outer border which encloses a design imitating a coin. This consists of a concentric legend enclosed by a second inner beaded border, and a centrally located cross. The legend is highly simplified and nonsensical, with individual letters being replaced by strokes. The reverse retains the attachment mechanism, consisting of a damaged pin lug and a sub-rectangular catchplate with a central perforation. Pewter disc brooches with beaded borders are fairly common in the Late Anglo-Saxon per…
Created on: Friday 17th March 2000
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as ''Badlingham'', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3977
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Apparently a lead model for a brooch, which would have been circular and slightly domed. Some of the edges now appear to have been cut off straight, and the maximum surviving diameter is 21 mm. There is no decoration on the convex upper face. The reverse is flat, not hollowed, and has a surviving curled-over lug which looks like a catchplate. No pin lug survives. Perhaps a trial piece or a model which would have been used in the manufacturing process; similar to the small Anglo-Scandinavian domed disc brooches of the tenth century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BADINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3885
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead pseudo-coin brooch based on the Aethelred II last small cross type (minted 1009-1017). Circular and 26 mm in diameter, it is now bent around the edges. In the centre is a small relief cross made from four distinct wedges; around this is a plain relief circle, then the legend within an outer border of pellets. The legend reads + T M A O P P - - - N A O (the T may be a second cross; the P shapes are reversed; part of the legend is missing). The legend may be derived from + MA [NIE ON NOR] HA (Manna of Norwich, the moneyer) but it is too blundered to be certain. On the reverse is an…
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2000
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WEETING WITH BROOMHILL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C76146
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A lead nummular brooch of late early medieval date, 9th-10th century AD, now incomplete as a fragment of one side is missing due to an old break. It is of Weetch's Type 2.Aii, imitating the reverse of a coin. This brooch is flat and circular, and measures c26.54mm in diameter. The front is worn but decorated with a moulded design. There is a cross in the centre within a circular moulding. There are irregular moulded lines around the border of the brooch which do not make sense as letters, either as they are or when an impression was taken. It therefore seems most likely that they ar…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2007
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Barton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-221F20
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead object with full-face Style I decoration. The fragment measures 24mm in surviving length and 18mm in width. The reverse is flat and the front has relief decoration of a full-face animal mask, with large rounded ears, brow ridges, circular eyes and a square-ended snout with the nostrils depicted by moulded recesses. Above the animal head the object flares and has more moulding consisting of border longitudinal ridges and two central parallel longitudinal ridges. This object could be a lead model used in the manufacture of a cast copper-alloy object, or it cou…
Created on: Thursday 4th August 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Icklingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-70DB56
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a lead early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, measuring 16mm in length and 16mm in width. The fragment consists of part of the head plate and one half-round side knob, which is not detachable. The rest of the brooch is missing and the breaks are old. It is unusual to discover lead early Anglo-Saxon brooches; this brooch could have been used as such or may possibly have been a template or test brooch.
Created on: Monday 23rd June 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Freckenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-CBDDE0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete late Anglo-Saxon lead disc brooch of Weetch type 5. It is circular in shape, measuring 33mm in diameter, it is flat and 1.6mm thick. The front face of this brooch is decorated with eight concentric grooves with a circular knop in the centre of the brooch measuring 3.8mm in diameter. On the back face the integral catch plate and pin attachment, consisting of two opposing oval shaped projections, each with a circular perforation through them to accomodate the now missing pin, are complete. Weetch dates this type to the 10th century.
Created on: Friday 13th February 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Westerfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9878
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A lead brooch, circular in shape with a diameter of 23mm. There is a central circular low flat-topped boss on the front, 12mm in diameter; the boss has a scratched X on it, and around the edge of the disc there are further transverse scratched grooves. On the reverse, part of the pin lug and the catch survive; the pin lug is parallel to the edge of the brooch, and the turned-over catchplate is perpendicular to this. This brooch is of Weetch type 13, but as it was originally recorded as medieval it was not included in Weetch's catalogue. It is unusual as being the only Weetch type 1…
Created on: Thursday 28th November 2002
Last updated: Friday 7th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7796
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead nummular brooch, complete but crumpled and cracked. 31 mm in diameter, it is decorated with concentric rings of ornament. In the very centre is a relief cross with expanded arms, with a small boss in the middle. Around this is a ring of ladder pattern, and then a ring of pellets and another ring of ladder pattern. On the reverse is a transverse pin lug and a catchplate, both of similar size and both squashed nearly flat; the pin when horizontal would run along the same orientation as the central cross. The design of nummular brooches, as the name suggests, is ultimately based on …
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOMERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7561
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete lead brooch. It is flat and circular, 39 mm in diameter, and about half is missing. There is a border consisting of two rings of pellets, which surrounds a relief quatrefoil. Inside this is another quatrefoil, and then a central relief circle. Only one of the foils survives complete, and this has a large pellet between the central circle and the line of the inner quatrefoil. Just inside the border, in some places cutting through the outer quatrefoil, is a ring of small circular perforations. On the reverse is a transverse pin lug, now squashed flat. The design of this br…
Created on: Monday 10th December 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WESTERFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7482
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead disc brooch, 28 mm in diameter. It is flat and has relief decoration of a double-strand border around a Jellinge-style animal. The animal begins with a head with a round eye and open bulbous jaws. A long double-strand tongue emerges to interlace over the body and under one leg. The animal is twisted into a reversed-S shape, with an angular junction between the long curving neck and the body which runs across the centre of the brooch; both neck and body are transversely ribbed with a contour line running along the back. From the angular junction emerges a transversely ribbed forel…
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GOODERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AE4D73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead disc brooch of Weetch type 4.C and late Anglo-Saxon date. It is missing its pin due to old breaks but is otherwise intact. The brooch is flat, disc shaped in form and with moulded decoration on the front face. This comprises a central voided arcuate cross, so made up of four back-to-back curved ridges, all now worn but with pellet terminals at each end of the arms. A larger pellet or boss is at the centre of the cross. The cross is contained within a border formed from a double band of pellets. The flat back face of the brooch is undecorated but has an integrally…
Created on: Thursday 18th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-120845
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead brooch of Weetch's type 13, defined as having a raised central field. It is of late Early Medieval date, probably 11th century, and is unusual in that it appears to be the first known to be decorated with a single face mask. It is missing much of the outer edge and pin lug due to old breaks, now worn. The flat outer edge is decorated with beaded decoration and there is a circumferential groove before a central, circular flat-topped raised boss. The outer edge of the boss is decorated with a circumferential border containing diagonal grooves. Within this is a cent…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF8471
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of an Early Saxon lead cruciform brooch or model thereof, comprising part of the headplate with the top knob. The latter is now three-quarter round, but may once have been fully round before abrasion. The sides and base of the headplate are missing. The stub of a single pin lug, with part of a transverse perforation, projects from the reverse. The surviving piece measures 24 x 11mm x 8mm and it dates from the mid to late 5th century.
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2011
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-877FF4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch; fragment of a possible lead model for an Early Saxon cruciform brooch, foot only with pointed terminal between two discoidal nostrils, upper part slightly hollowed near break on reverse. Cf. examples from Quidenham and others in Leahy (2005) Med. Archaeol. 337-341. Åberg Type II b.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Rudham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS41
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Central part of a lead brooch in very good uncorroded condition, belonging to Weetch's type 13.A. Measuring 27 mm in diameter, it has rather late Celtic-looking decoration. In the centre is a small pellet surrounded by a relief triangle. Around this are three relief double-strand C-shapes, arranged back-to-back to form a triangle with outward-scrolling points. One of the pairs of scrolls has a pellet in each scroll, another has an annulet in each scroll, and the third has one pellet and one annulet. Each pair has a linking double-strand chevron between the scrolls. In the centre of ea…
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2000
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK COSTESSEY', grid reference and parish protected.