Record ID: SUR-2527D7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper alloy annular brooch dating to the period AD 1200 - 1400. The frame has a pair of oval projections each with four notches on the back, which represent a highly simplified pair of praying hands. On the opposing side of the frame is a prominent conical collet filled with white paste. At 90 degrees around the frame between these two features is a recessed bar complete with a copper alloy pin.
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-546FCD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small copper alloy annular brooch of Medieval date, 23.1mm in diameter. The brooch frame has a triangular cross section 1.4mm thick and 3.5mm wide with bevelled front sides and a flat reverse. The frame is undecorated. The copper alloy pin remains in place on a constriction in the frame.
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-D35A7C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small copper alloy annular brooch of Medieval date, 14.5mm in diameter. The brooch frame has a cross section angled towards the front side, with a concave reverse. The frame is decorated with five recessed oval settings for decorative stones, each around 1.5mm in length. Cabochon stones which appear to be of blue-green glass are retained in two of these settings. The copper alloy wire pin remains in place on a constriction in the frame.
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-C8B7A2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval cast copper alloy brooch, 27.2mm in diameter, with a flat cross section. The frame appears undecorated. A pointed copper alloy pin with a ridged collar is retained on a constriction on the frame.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 26th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-76650A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver pin from a medieval brooch, probably of annular type. The pin is 27.6mm in length and bent. The shaft has a flattened and oval cross section and tapers to a rounded tip. There is a small collar at the loop which is decorated with punched annulets, although use wear has obscured these. The articulation loop has a flat cross section. The underside of the pin has a distinctive patch of corrosion running from the bend to the tip. This may relate to use, perhaps representing an area in regular prolonged contact with acidic organic surfaces such as skin or leather.
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2022
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-AA4B9E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily corroded circular cast copper alloy annular brooch / buckle of medieval date. The frame has a bevelled edge and a flat reverse. There is a constriction and notched rest for the pin, which is missing. Circa 13th-14th century.
Created on: Friday 24th July 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-DCE8BD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A later medieval cast copper alloy frame from a large annular brooch, 36.8mm in diameter. The frame is sub rectangular in cross section, 2.1mm thick and 4.4mm wide. One one side there is a projection in the form of an acorn with a moulded collar. On the opposite side of the frame is a pin constriction, the presence of which suggests an interpretation as a brooch rather than a buckle. See also SUR-945E92 & SUSS-5AA6E2.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-4A5CE3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bent and incomplete cast copper-alloy Medieval annular brooch frame of 38.3mm diameter. The frame is rectangular in cross section, 6mm wide and 2.3mm thick. It has broken and bent across a constriction for the pin. One side of the frame has incised lettering in the form of a magical charm or religious invocation, which reads [...](MI)O M DIO M DIO N DIO + The other side has geometric decoration comprising an incised zig zag with crescents to either side.
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 15th November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-21EDD4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval cast copper alloy annular brooch with a flat, circular frame of 24.8mm diameter and 1.7mm thick. The front of the frame is decorated with a band of incised saltire crosses interspersed with pellets, the whole within a linear border. There is a constriction to accommodate the flat and tapering pointed copper alloy pin, which is retained.
Created on: Monday 13th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 14th November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-2135D1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper alloy brooch made from an English pictorial jetton of large diameter (26.1mm) dating to c. 1280-1300. Obverse: arms of England within a border of strokes and rosettes (cf. Mitchiner 168). Reverse: triple stranded cross fleury with a star or crescent in each angle and a border with a three pellet cluster in each segment (cf Mitchiner 169). The jetton has been fitted with a brooch attachment on the obverse side, riveted through the centre. 
Created on: Monday 13th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-227DA6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy penannular object, possibly a brooch frame or a mount. The object has a crescent shaped frame, 26.9mm in width, with bevelled sides, which expands in thickness from 1.9mm thick at the terminals, to a maximum thickness of 4.2mm at the mid point of the crescent. At this mid point is a small hole infilled with rusted iron, probably an articulation for a now missing iron pin, or a mounting point. The terminals at the ends of the arms of the crescent have small rounded plates with five projecting spokes and a central hole, which could be decorative or for attachment…
Created on: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-FA91F6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of the frame of a silver-gilt annular brooch. Both sides are neatly decorated with inscriptions in Lombardic capitals reserved against a cross hatched field. The inscriptions read: AVE MARIA G[RACIA PLENA] / [IESVS NAZAREN]VS REX IV(DOREM) (Hail Mary full of grace / Jesus of Nazareth King of the Jews) A number of similar brooches, some in copper alloy, have been recorded, eg NCLD1AF46; NMS-917C53; CAM-A2CDB7; NMS-185F14.
Created on: Monday 3rd February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 31st October 2023
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Record ID: SUR-3F583E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast copper alloy zoomorphic annular brooch, 20.7mm in diameter. The frame has a plano-convex cross section with a flat reverse and is elaborately decorated with two sets of paired beast heads, one flanking the pin constriction and one flanking an oval lobe which functions as the pin rest. The sides between each set of paired heads have indistinct moulded decoration. An incomplete copper alloy pin remains articulated on the frame.
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 27th September 2023
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Record ID: SUR-422C9A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small copper alloy annular brooch of Medieval date, 24.8mm in diameter. The brooch frame has a circular cross section, 2mm in diameter and is undecorated. There is a constriction in the frame for the pin. The pin is 2.4mm wide and has a plano-convex cross section. It has lost its attachment loop and broken from the frame with a 24.9mm length remaining.
Created on: Friday 15th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2023
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Record ID: SUR-334531
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast pewter openwork annular brooch of medieval date comprising an open ring with a raised front surrouded by beaded borders and, running around its exterior, six projecting letters of lombardic form reading AMOVRS. The O and V are now folded back onto the front of the frame. A bent circular suspension or attachment ring projects from the top of the letter M. The reverse has damage, but appears to have stumps of brooch fittings. The style of the letters would suggest a later 14th to early 15th century date.
Created on: Monday 21st August 2023
Last updated: Thursday 31st August 2023
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Record ID: SUR-EBAA29
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete silver gilt annular brooch of medieval date. The frame has a plano-convex cross section with a flat reverse. The frame is elaborately decorated with two sets of paired beast heads, one flanking the pin constriction and one flanking the oval lobe which functions as the pin rest. These heads have rectangular crania with small projecting ears at the rear, with pellet eyes and faceted snouts at the front. Along the centre of each of the heads is a single line of rocker-arm zig-zag decoration. Around the sides of the frame, between each set of heads, is decoration comprising…
Created on: Wednesday 12th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 23rd June 2023
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Record ID: SUR-2ED641
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast copper alloy annular brooch with a flat, circular frame of 14.5mm diameter and 1mm thick. The frame is decorated with punched rectangles, each containing a group of four or five small raised pellets. There is a constriction to accommodate the flat and tapering copper alloy pin, which is retained.
Created on: Friday 9th June 2023
Last updated: Friday 9th June 2023
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Record ID: SUR-26FE77
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a medieval cast copper alloy zoomorphic annular brooch, 31mm in length. The remaining portion of the frame comprises an oval lobe drilled for a pin which is held by flanking beast heads. The drilled pin hole at the centre retains a copper alloy pin. Each flanking head faces the pin articulation and has a ridged collar at the neck, moulded brows and snout and blind drilled holes representing gaping jaws. The narrow necks extending back from each head would have extended into a circular frame with plano convex section. Both end in old breaks.
Created on: Monday 15th May 2023
Last updated: Monday 15th May 2023
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Record ID: SUR-C02552
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A diminutive brooch showing a male (left) and female figure apparently with arms interlinked. There are additional engraved details and a simple pin hanging from the arms.
Created on: Tuesday 14th October 2003
Last updated: Friday 12th May 2023
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Record ID: SUR-B5CACB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy medieval annular figurative brooch. The frame is moulded into a depiction of a male figure standing on the left, with a beast on the right which is most likely a dragon. The figure's left arm is outstretched to form a bar for a copper alloy wire pin, which remains in place, and joins to the head of the beast. The feet of the figure merge into the end of the beast's tail which curves up and around to the left on the lower edge of the frame. Moulded facial details on the figure and depictions of eyes and scales on the beast are visible.…
Created on: Wednesday 10th May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 11th May 2023
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