Record ID: WILT-A57C56
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Roman gilded oval plate brooch inset with intaglio of black glass, dating to c. AD 250-300.  The incomplete brooch frame has a raised outer border with gilding around those outer edges which are still extant. This border creates a recessed field with incised decoration of V shapes which point towards the central collet. The gilding continues across this field and up the sides of the central collet. This holds a flat, black, glass intaglio. The design on the intaglio depicts a probably male figure advancing left (as seen…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
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Record ID: DENO-284197
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman copper alloy, oval plate brooch with oval central flange, which would have contained a glass or intagilio setting, now missing (c. AD 200 - 410). The plate has a raised edge and the flat space between the setting and the edge is tool marked with a band of small nicks/hatching. The front is gilded and the back has traces of a white metal coating. Perforated lug and part of catch plate present on back; pin missing. Length 28.8 mm, width 22.2 mm, thickness 3.6 mm and weight 7.88g.
Created on: Thursday 26th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd May 2023
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Record ID: GAT-1FF319
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Gwynedd
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete flat Roman disc brooch. A once circular plate, now truncated, with four surviving raised circles with central circular reserves. At the centre of the disc, a large circular rim is present. The plate is framed by a raised circular rim. The reverse is undecorated, with two semi-circular lugs at one end, and opposite, a worn/damaged catch plate. There are traces of enamel present, primarily in one of the four surviving circular decorations. The find may date to the 2nd Century AD.
Created on: Friday 4th March 2022
Last updated: Friday 4th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pentir', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-40DECB
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy lozenge plate brooch of 2nd century AD date The brooch is incomplete, missing the pin (with a length of 34.7mm, a width of 32.4mm and a weight of 6.8g). The missing pin was hinged between twin lugs (giving an overall depth of 12.0mm) and secured with a ferrous axis bar, which remains in place. At the base is the remains of the catch-plate, which has lost the catch. The rear has a recessed circular panel. The face has a two-stepped border to the lozenge cell (23mm square). The border is damaged but no side lugs are discernible. The lozenge cell contains blue and…
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-40D70B
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy lozenge plate brooch of 2nd century AD date The brooch is incomplete, missing the pin and leg (with a surviving length of 29.9mm, a surviving depth of 4.1mm and a weight of 2.1g). The missing pin was hinged between twin lugs now truncated. The hinge is on the rear of a trefoil head-plate, now eroded (7.2mm wide and 6.8mm long). No applied decoration is evident of the plate. The end of the plate is defined by a transverse rib, before a raised step to the lozenge plate (20mm long 19.2mm wide and 1.6mm thick). The plate has a raised border and raised central ring.…
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th February 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-EFF6D3
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy plate brooch of hexagonal form and of 2nd century AD date The brooch is near-complete, missing the pin and catch (with a length of 33.1mm, an overall depth of 15.5mm and a weight of 4.1g). The pin is hinged within twin lugs with an iron axis bar, positioned on the rim and beneath a lug at the apex. The catch-plate is truncated and positioned on the rear of a linear protruding lug. The rear has a hemispherical hollowing (17.0mm diameter and 5.9mm deep). The knop at the apex is decorated with a ring-and-dot on its front face but no decoration is evident on the li…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-3091AA
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy enamelled plate brooch of Umbonate type and of late 1st to mid 2nd century AD date The cast brooch is near-complete but is now distorted (with a length of 31.0mm, an overall distorted width of 24.7mm, a depth of 9.5mm and a weight of 5.7g). The pin is hinged between twin D-shaped lugs on the rear, now damaged with a copper alloy axis bar. The hinge and catch-plate are positioned on the rear of the protruding lugs each side of the dished rear. The lug at the apex has probably broken through a perforation for the chain loop. The catch-plate is truncated and has l…
Created on: Monday 4th January 2021
Last updated: Monday 4th January 2021
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Record ID: NCL-CD7787
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, copper enamelled Roman disc brooch (Mackreth British Plate 2.b). The pin is missing and only a small piece of the catch plate is preserved. The two pierced lugs where the pin attached are present but damaged. The flat, circular plate has a raised rim for containing enamel, which is damaged on one side. The six-lobed decorative motif is intact, with traces of red enamel present and a reserved circle in the centre. Late second century.
Created on: Thursday 26th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 7th April 2020
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Record ID: NLM-8D5467
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy plate brooch. Cast oval plate with a central drilled hole of diameter 2.5mm, cf. Mackreth type OBJECT 1.2b1 shield-shaped brooches with bowed sides, provision for central umbo and white metal plating. The plate has a strongly defined border in relief; radial scratches within the border may represent keying for enamel. Outside the border, a knop with six tiny spurs is set at either end, one with the twin lugs of a hinged pin seat behind it, and the other with a folded catch plate. Traces of white metal plating appear on the border and knops. Suggested date: Early Roman, 80…
Created on: Monday 23rd March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 24th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Willingham by Stow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-F132F8
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman plate brooch dating to AD 100-300 of Hattatt's gilded glass centre-boss type. The brooch is circular in plan and oval in cross-section. It is missing the central boss, pin and part of the catchplate. The outer edge of the brooch is slightly raised, forming a rim around a slightly raised motif of repeated S-shapes, which abuts a solid circle. A inner raised border formas a circle around a central recess with a small knop located at the centre. On the reverse, a pin attachment lug and catchplate project from the plate; remains of a pin can be se…
Created on: Monday 27th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
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Record ID: BH-5C4893
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Roman cast copper-alloy enamelled plate brooch with a zoomporhic design, likely dating to between AD 200-400. The symmetrical plate is broadly hexagonal with longer upper and lower edges and decorated with alternating blue and yellow enamel trapezoidal fields with ring and dot motifs in the centre of each. The upper projecting plate is trapezoidal and decorated with orange enamel with another central dot. From the lower edge there the short narrow plate extends to a raised transverse collar and a triple-knoped terminal. A flat attachment loop projects from the reverse of th…
Created on: Wednesday 8th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 31st August 2021
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Record ID: NLM-0E923B
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy plate brooch. Mackreth type British Plate 3.b4. Cast disc with a large central cell with upstanding wall of height 2.5mm and with two concentric rings in its base, surrounded by two concentric annular fields with a raised outer border. The outer orders retain gilding traces, with hints of simple curved stamps in the innermost. The back retains a rat-tail ridge with the stub of a catch plate at one end and the stub of a pin seat at the other. Possibly damaged by fire. The central cell would have retained a glass stone, now lost. Suggested date: Roman, 160-300 Diameter: …
Created on: Wednesday 11th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 11th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hibaldstow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-DE7194
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy and gilded circular disc plate brooch (AD 200-350) of Hull T270; Hattatt's gilded glass 'centre-boss' type. The glass centre-boss, the pin and mechanism and parts of the lug and catch-plate are missing. The central wall which held the glass-boss has been reduced in height due to corrosion and has an outer diameter of 16.5mm. At the centre, a small circular pit, possibly for lathe centring, has a diameter of 2.6mm. Close to the edge a circumferential ring is abraded but may have been 'knurled' before being reduced in height. The space between this ri…
Created on: Wednesday 9th October 2019
Last updated: Friday 11th October 2019
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Record ID: NLM-9E0CC3
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy plate brooch fragment. Cast concavo-convex plate brooch with two orders of triangular cells around a central cell, and with opposed side lugs and lugs masking pin gear, Mackreth type British plate 6a.The outer order of cells is now represented by six triangular cells filled with cobalt blue enamel; the inner order retains relict traces of a paler enamel, perhaps white, though now stained pale green. One side lug and a larger lug masking the stub of a catch plate remain; over half the brooch is lost. Suggested date: Early Roman, 100-160 Height (as found): 28.7mm, Thickn…
Created on: Tuesday 24th September 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 24th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-777101
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy plate brooch. Cast plate brooch, Mackreth type PL CONT 2.d1. A flat central lozenge stands proud of a plain border of similar shape, with the relict traces of a boss projecting from its outer corners. A continuation above retains the seat for a hinged pin; traces of rust may hint that this was of iron. The catch plate on an opposed projection is lost. The surface of the central lozenge is now paler green than the rest of the front of the brooch, and may include an inner rhomboid figure at its centre. There is a circular hollow behind the centre of the brooch. Mackreth (20…
Created on: Tuesday 10th September 2019
Last updated: Friday 17th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-270839
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy plate brooch. Cast sub-circular flat plate with a central annular cell, a medial order of reserved pellets around it, and an outer zig-zag, the medial dots placed in the base of each projecting element of zig-zag; Mackreth type British Plate 2.c. Paired lugs represent a pin seat on the back, with the stub of an opposed catch plate. The outer edge is lost to abrasion. A reddish tint in the central and medial cells might hint at the former presence of red enamel. Suggested date: Roman, 100-250 Diameter: 23.2mm, Thickness (clear of pin gear): 1.0mm, Weight: 2.52gms
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 13th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Manton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-7645C1
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy plate brooch. Cast circular lightly plano-convex plate with a central cavity of diameter 6.9mm, probably for a central boss [lost], and with two orders of rectangular cells around it filled with probable polychrome enamel, Mackreth type CONT 9.a. The twin lugs retaining a hinged pin and the opposed stub of a folded catch plate appear on the back. The colours in the outer order are a recurring sequence of red/yellow or green/red. The inner order may include red /yellow/green. Chalky material on the display face may obscure some further detail. An example from Castleford da…
Created on: Monday 17th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 6th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thirkleby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-358BFD
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible plate brooch. A small cast two-dimensional hen or cockerel with comb and tail feathers, striding leftwards, cf. Mackreth type OBJECT 4.b3. Traces of incised lines representing the feathers of the wing appear on the display face, and dark material adheres where this detail is discernible. A tiny [diameter 1.5mm] ring also appears on the breast and towards the end of the tail feathers. On the back, larger round hollows of diameter 2.5mm appear behind the head, breast and tail. There is no further evidence for pin gear, and the hollows on the back might alternativel…
Created on: Friday 14th June 2019
Last updated: Friday 14th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haxey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-BD5B62
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy domed and circular plate brooch with a scalloped edge. Most of the hinged pin and part of a loop on the edge next to the hinge are missing. Mackreth 2011, British Plate 6.c. A round cell on a boss in front of the catchplate is inlaid with red enamel as are twenty-four triangular cells in a ring surrounding the boss. A single row of twelve larger triangular cells on the boss, inlaid alternately with red and blue enamel, enclose a single small round cell of red on the top. Diameter 26.5mm. Extant length 33.8mm. Thickness excluding pin fixings 6.3mm. 2nd century.
Created on: Saturday 8th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th April 2020
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Record ID: NLM-D1CA3E
Object type: PLATE BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy plate brooch fragment. Cast lozenge-shaped concavo-convex plate with a flat rhomboid field surrounded by three stepped and cross-cut ridges, Mackreth type PL CONT 6.b. The edge appears lightly scalloped, though fabric has perhaps been lost all round. A U-shaped lug for a pin and the opposed stub of a catch plate appear behind the ends of what remains, with a rounded hollow between them. Glossy traces near the middle of the display side might be either relict enamel or plating. Suggested date: Roman, 175-200 Length: 35.8mm, Width: 17.3mm, Height (i.e. protrusion): 4.2mm…
Created on: Tuesday 28th May 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 28th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.