Record ID: NMS-49D2C5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver ovoid annular brooch. The frame is of concave-sided square cross-section, twisted cable-style, with a row of filigree pellets along each face and a pin constriction which holds a D-section silver pin, now broken near the loop. In rather fragile condition. Dimensions: External diam. 16 x 14mm. Weight 0.68g. Very similar to an example from Stanfield, Norfolk (HER 7241, 2002 T151, Treasure Annual Report 2002, 80, no.76). Date: 13th or 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 9th January 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langley with Hardley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-130F34
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy brooch, probably a rosette type. It has an incomplete cylindrical spring case, now open at the top, with all edges being worn breaks, perhaps apart from the forward edge and a concave pin slot at the centre of the reverse. The bow is reasonably flat in cross-section. It arches in a C-shaped profile and probably tapers in width from top to bottom. The lateral edges are heavily abraded and no more than half of one edge is original. Decoration begins with a narrow transverse groove and ridge immediately below the spring case. Then …
Created on: Tuesday 2nd May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-279F9E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete Late Saxon cloisonné enamelled and gilded copper-alloy disc brooch with remains of a silver pin mechanism, of Weetch’s (2014) Type 20.B. On the front there is a central circular field containing a floral motif composed of cells (also called cloisons) filled with enamel, now shattered. This is surrounded by an outer ring of twelve closely spaced and now mostly vacant sub-circular cells. All of this is mounted onto a flat backplate with soldered-on silver pin fixings. The central field is enclosed by a double-walled hoop of metal and is sub…
Created on: Friday 5th March 2021
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-99877A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval silver annular brooch, complete with silver pin. The frame of the brooch is circular, thick and flat to make a rectangular cross-section. The pin is held in a constriction, and has an open loop. There is a transverse double moulding at the junction of loop and shaft, below which the cross-section of the shaft is D-shaped or trapezoidal.  The frame is engraved on both faces with letters which read clockwise from the pin constriction. Because the pin has a clear front and reverse, it is possible to identify the front and reverse of the frame too; the…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-42EEDE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Iron Age to early Roman copper-alloy Colchester brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) type 2.a or 2.b (the standard British type with a catchplate pierced by fretwork or square holes). It is largely complete except for the catchplate, which survives only as a series of stubs between incomplete openwork voids, and the shaft of the pin, approximately a third of which is missing from the tip. The head consists of a pair of short flat wings and an integral spring that emerges from between them on the lower side of the reverse. The spring coils up and around a separate axis bar three time…
Created on: Friday 30th July 2021
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-29C8E2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Complete silver medieval annular brooch with four decorated bosses and cast pin. There are four evenly spaced flat square bosses each decorated with a stamped octofoil, soldered in an equidistant pattern around the upper surface of the oval-sectioned frame. The petalled design on the bosses are sunken, and radiate from a central round raised pellet. On each boss the foils are alternately slightly larger (going into the corners) and slightly smaller. The tapering pin has an oval cross-section with a spherical knob at the junction of shaft and loop. This knob is decorat…
Created on: Thursday 1st August 2019
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Mundford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6E9398
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small gold annular brooch with pin constriction and projecting clasped hands. The circular frame is mainly triangular in cross-section, but this is interrupted by the pin constriction at 12 o'clock, the clasped hands at 3 o'clock, and two quatrefoil flower bosses at 6 o'clock and 9 o'clock. The pin constriction has a tiny transverse ridge to either side. The clasped hands have the thumbs uppermost, and the fingers above the thumbs are very slightly separated, but not apparently enough to hold something like a bead. The space in between has some hard so…
Created on: Friday 30th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cawston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-74D8BB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Early Saxon gilded copper alloy great square-headed brooch with elaborate chip-carved ornament. It is a hybrid, with a headplate derived from the great square-headed class and a footplate from the florid cruciform, and belongs to one of Hines's 'informal groups', sub-group vi, The object is in two pieces, with a non-recent break across the junction of the headplate and bow. The lower part of the footplate has been lost, an ancient fracture repaired in antiquity with iron. There is a rivet just above the break and the front face is covered with decayed iron,…
Created on: Thursday 26th November 2015
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-B43EDC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval silver annular brooch. The frame is decorated by two zig-zag grooves, creating a series of lozenge-shaped fields in the centre with triangular fields running around the inner and outer edges. Each of these fields is filled by a cluster of punched annulets. There is a narrowed constriction for the missing pin. The reverse is flat and undecorated. Dimensions: Diameter: 16.8mm, internal diameter: 10.4mm, thickness: 1.6mm, weight: 1.5g. Discussion: A number of similar artefacts in both silver and gold have been reported as Treasure and are recorded on the PAS datab…
Created on: Thursday 4th May 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-01ABE1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver coin brooch, made from a gros tournois of Floris V, Count of Holland, 1256-96; the coin was struck between 1266 and 1296.  The front of the brooch has been gilded, with extensive traces surviving especially in the centre. There is no trace of gilding to the rear, and this is unlikely to have been gilded originally. There is some delamination of the silver, with areas of the edge flaking off on both faces. There is a small part of the pin mechanism surviving, made of circular-section wire, soldered to the rear; to either side of this surviving part …
Created on: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Erpingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS133
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver annular brooch. Frame decorated with zigzag groove between triangular fields of annulets (the decoration is incised and punched. It is quite worn in the area of the pin rest). Pin with double and transverse moulding next to loop. External diameter 19mm, internal diameter 12mm. Pin constriction. Pin is detachable, i.e. loose. Published in TAR 2000, no. 123.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2001
Last updated: Friday 15th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK TERRINGTON ST CLEMENT', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E85D63
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete gilded silver disc brooch of  middle Anglo-Saxon date. About a quarter of the flat plate is now missing, but the surviving part includes the pin fixings, and part of the silver pin also survives. The front is gilded and has low-relief decoration now a little obscured by hard soil deposits, best described with the pin running horizontally and the missing area to bottom left. The design appears to be based on a cross, with four drop-shaped panels (at top left, top right, bottom right and the missing one at bottom left) each with its point towards the edge. T…
Created on: Monday 25th July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-913DFB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval silver annular brooch. Circular-sectioned frame with ten evenly spaced D-sectioned brambled bosses around the frame. Two of the bosses flank the constriction for the pin. The loop of the pin is wrapped around the constriction, with a small transverse gap on the underside. The front of the pin has a transverse ridge running across it at the junction of the loop and shaft. The tip of the pin rests across the opposite edge of the frame. Dimensions: Diameter 14.8mm (including bosses), thickness (including bosses): 2mm, thickness (excluding bosses): 1mm. Length o…
Created on: Wednesday 14th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-A7D6FE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete and distorted Roman copper alloy gilded oval plate brooch, with the sprung pin, part of the single pin lug and all of the central "gem" missing. The front is gilt, the rear tinned. The stamped impressions in the outer zone are S-shaped, while those in the inner are of uncertain shape. Mackreth 2011, chapter 7, part 1, British, group 3.b2. Length 30mm. Width 22.5mm. Late 2nd - mid 3rd century.
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2017
Last updated: Saturday 2nd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B84509
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper alloy flat, enamelled, disc (sexfoil) plate brooch with a sprung pin and iron axis bar on a single pin lug. Mackreth 2015, British Plate 2.b. The design is "a central reserved spot surrounded by a concave-sided hexagon on whose cusps are small circles" (ibid., 156, pl. 105, no. 11599). The outer cell contains blue enamel, and there are a few specks of white within the inner. There is no sign of the applied white metal trim. Diameter 21.1 - 21.5mm. Late 2nd - mid 3rd century.
Created on: Saturday 22nd April 2017
Last updated: Saturday 2nd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-320B78
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A foot of a probable early Continental Cruciform brooch of Typ Foldvik-Erpingham (Reichstein 1975, Tafel 68, 7-10), with the upper part missing, form of foot as in op. cit. no.10, although with rib bordering terminal, as on nos. 7-8. Remains of catch-plate on reverse. c.450-500 century AD. Measures 14mm x >33mm. This has been identified as a cruciform brooch foot by comparison not only with the brooches cited by Reichstein, but also other brooches from Norfolk (e.g. NMS-31F633). There are, however, also small-long brooches with this foot form, such as an example from Field Dalling (…
Created on: Tuesday 7th July 2009
Last updated: Sunday 26th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS123
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Almost complete small-long brooch. Rectangular head-plate with fifteen circular perforations along sides and top edge, bordered along the inside by a pair of closely spaced incised grooves. The perforations are slightly countersunk in front and are cast, although appearing to have been drilled. D-section bow with side facets between one fine transverse groove at top and two at base. Large lappets, each with three circular perforations similar to those on the head-plate. The foot, with scalloped edges, is in the form of a very abstracted stylised horse-head. On reverse an incomplete sin…
Created on: Thursday 1st February 2001
Last updated: Saturday 25th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK HILLINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-B80AE5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete, abraded and distorted Roman copper alloy Hod Hill brooch in two pieces, with an old break across the bow. Most of the pin, almost all of the catchplateand the foot are missing. Iron axis bar. Mackreth HOD HILL 1.a. Weight 2.72g. Width of head 13.5mm. c.43 - c.75
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B86FFC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Rearhook brooch with the spring, the pin and the curled over part of the solid catchplate missing.On both wings there are two vertical engraved grooves and one diagonal. On the D-sectioned bow a median groove and a row of closely spaced transverse engraved lines run the full length between grooves or offsets along both sides. Mackreth 2011 CD RH 4.f. Weight 9.83g. Wingspan 27.3mm. Length 39.2mm. AD c.43 - c.65.
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-8A0333
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of Early Medieval coin brooch. The brooch is made from a Small Cross issue of Aethelred II, the obverse reading AEDEL[...] and the reverse [...]ONEAX, signifying it was struck by an Exeter moneyer. The reverse is gilded, and the obverse has a lump of iron corrosion, probably part of a pin lug, attached at the start of the inscription. There is no visible means of attachment for the pin fixing on the front, so the lug was probably soldered in place. There are also some brownish accretions on the obverse, probably iron corrosion from the pin and/or p…
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.