Record ID: SUR-6E3DE7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early Roman brooch of Colchester type. The brooch has plain side wings, catchplate and spine but there is a rounded knop and a collar on the foot. The corrosion suggest an iron repair to the spring, unless the spring was iron originally.
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-6EA266
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman Colchester derivative brooch, from the 1st century AD. The brooch has been cast in copper alloy. Most of the brooch survives, but part of the spring and the the whole of the pin are missing. The undecorated wings survive intact. Two small rings extend backwards from the reverse of the wings, these would have once held the spring. The upper ring is empty as the external chord is missing. The lower ring still contains the pin from the centre of the spring. This area is also heavily corroded with iron staining. To the right of the ring, three turns of the spring can …
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-6EB1A5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early Roman brooch of Colchester type. The brooch has plain side wings, catchplate and D-section bow. Part of the spring and pin are missing.
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LVPL-6EAD38
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Roman umbonate brooch. A circular brooch with circular knops on the outer edge. There would have been 8, now only 3 are left. The 6 smaller knops are decorated with an inner circle. At the top and bottom were two larger knops, only one of which remains. This has a central circular perforation. The pin is on a hinge and remains but the catchplate is missing. The brooch is a hollow dome shape with a central peak. The front face is decorated. It is split into 16 segments each of which would have held enamel. Some still retain the yellow and blue enamel. This type of brooch m…
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Friday 22nd May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-6EBC73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The lower part of an early Roman brooch, probably of Colchester type. The brooch has a slender D-section bow and a triangular aperture in its catchplate.
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-6F0F71
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy brooch, Colchester derivative type with Polden Hill variant spring attachment. Missing foot with catchplate, spring, pin. The spring was held by a rear hook and by enclosed wing ends, 6mm wide - these contain an iron-like corrosion, but it does not react to a magnet. The wings have a single angled groove and five grooves at the terminals, with slight notching of some of the intervening narrow ribs. The bow tapers slightly and is oval in section, with slight angles at the sides. A central band of three grooves define two reserved notched narrow ribs. Width 31mm, surviving …
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wenhaston, Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-6F53E0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy brooch, Colchester derivative type with a rear hook. Missing both wings, spring, pin; damaged catchplate; corroded/abraded surfaces, especially the bow front. The bow has a slightly convex back and rounded front, and a stront crest at the top in profile. It tapers to a smal;l foot knob. Two centre grooves define a centre rib which may have had horizontal hatching and there are traces of possible concave mouldings each side. The footknob is marked by a slight transverse groove. Length 41mm, surviving width 6.5mm. Although this could be a standard rear hook type it has many…
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wenhaston, Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-6FCFE6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Roman copper alloy bow brooch, consisting of the lower bow and incomplete catchplate only. The brooch is very worn and most of the original patina is missing. The fragment measures 44.9mm in length and is very straight in profile. It is 5.4mm wide at the break and 5.4mm wide at the foot. The breaks are old. The bow is roughly triangular in section, being flat to the reverse. To the front is a mid-rib, from which either side falls away. There appears to be rocker-arm decoration on either side although the surface is very worn. At either long edge is another rib. To …
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-70D803
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy brooch pin. The pin has a D-shaped section and it tapers to a blunt point. The loop is not complete. The object has a mid reddish-brown patina. It is medieval in date.
Created on: Friday 25th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Walberton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: YORYM-C0A8E4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy brooch from the late Medieval period. The brooch is incomplete, but shows a fleur de lis in a circular border. The border has a motif of beads that is slightly separate from the main border.
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stillingfleet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-C230C4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch, depicting a sitting chicken. Missing most of pin; damaged catchplate and damaged and bent tail; hole in one enamel cell.The pin is hinged between two close set lugs below the tail. The underside of the body and neck is hollow. The head has small punched circles for eyes and triangles with a trace of blue enamel in the comb and the wattle. The enamelled cells on each side of the body consist of two crescents at the top, with traces of blue in some, and a row of triangualr shapes at the bottom, again with some blue enamel, and a larger curvilinear shape between the …
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 27th July 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wenhaston, Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-C87333
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman bow brooch which is probably Dolphin type. The bow survives, but the pin, mechanism, and most of the catchplate are missing. The bow has a humped head and tapers to a point at the foot. It is decorated with two narrow grooves that run the length of the bow and flare at the head. There is also a narrow groove on each edge of the humped part of the bow. The wings are short and are semi-tubular. They do not appear to be decorated. The brooch is 47.9mm long, 20.2mm wide and 10.4mm thick. On the reverse of the wings, the semi-circular spring case has ends that are pier…
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 18th January 2021
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Record ID: SWYOR-C887A4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Roman bow brooch fragment of Colchester derivative Polden Hill (flat wing ends type, West Midlands), cf. Mackreth 2011, 4.c. pg. 72 Plate 46. Only the head of the brooch survives and the spring and pin are missing. There appears to be a central zig-zag line of decoration down the centre of the bow, but much of the patina is chipped and corroded, hiding most of the details. The brooch has short wings which appear not to be decorated. It is 20.6mm long, 20.2mm wide and 10.4mm thick. The wings are semi-cylindrical with closed ends which are pierced to take the axis bar of …
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2016
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Record ID: SUR-D61672
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy annular brooch. On the frame are four integrally mounted diamond-shaped expansions. Two of these have raised pyramids and the other two have cast fleur-de-lys. Between these are raised pellets.
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUR-D8D625
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The upper part of a Roman brooch of Colchester type. The brooch has a pair of grooves on the outer part of each side wing and a roll moulding either side of the spine. The spring is of iron.
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUR-D8E7B0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The upper part of a plain Roman brooch of Colchester type. The spring is of iron.
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

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: SUSS-EE4911
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Roman Colchester two-piece brooch. The object consists of the head of the brooch and most of the bow. The spring mechanism, the pin and the lower part of the bow are all missing. The double head loop remains in situ, with one loop intact and one broken. The wings are decorated with incised vertical lines. The object is slightly worn, with a mid greyish-green patina. Brooches of this type date to the 1st century AD. Parallels for this brooch can be found in Hattat 2000, fig.156.
Created on: Thursday 31st May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buckland', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: DENO-F015B7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy disc brooch, incomplete, probably middle to late Anglo-Saxon, 8th to 11th century. Flat, circular and apparently undecorated, it has a transversely set cylindrical lug (length 11.46mm, width 4.2mm) to hold the pin; this is set parallel to the edge of the brooch. At the opposite end is a semi-circular hooked catchplate set perpendicular to the edge of the brooch. The pin is missing. There is a flat projection, perhaps originally a loop but now broken off, projecting from the edge at the pin lug. Rounghly one quarter of the disc is broken off. Dark green surface. Diame…
Created on: Thursday 31st May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tuxford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: DENO-F04256
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, 6th century, incomplete. Integrally cast top-knob, side-knobs missing. Trapezoidal head-plate with a double row of punched dots on either side. The left wing is incomplete, but it appears to have been trapezoidal and has a double row of punched dots along the only surviving original edge, at its base. The right wing is broken off. Arched bow with faceted corners, carinated in front and hollow on the reverse. There is a row of punched oblique lines with incised line borders at the top and the bottom of the bow. Trapezoidal plate at the top of the foot, the …
Created on: Thursday 31st May 2007
Last updated: Monday 26th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tuxford', grid reference and parish protected.