Record ID: HAMP-4B07BD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Iron Age copper alloy brooch of the La Tene I type dating to the 4th - 3rd century B.C. ' Wessex' Type, Hull's Type 1A. The brooch has a strongly arched faceted bow with a diamond-shaped cross section.. The top of the arch extends to form the tightly coiled spring with an axis bar and arched mock-spring. A tapering pin with a sub-circular section remains, and tapers down to a pointed terminal that is situated near the catch plate.  The opposite end of the arch extends to form the foot and catchplate of the brooch which consists of a bar that is ben…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: OXON-A26E2B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Middle Iron Age copper alloy brooch of La Tène I and of Hull & Hawkes (1987: 95-106) type 1Ba, dating to the 4th or 3rd century BC. The one-piece brooch is missing both its spring and its pin. The arched bow is D-shaped in section, being flat on the back and convex on the front. It has a maximum width of 5.87mm and thickness of 4.26mm. It is decorated down its length with a column of punched dots framed by a vertical line on either side. Just below where the spring would have been attached at the top is a sub-rectangular plate attached…
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: NLM-F190B0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy with brown patina, brooch fragment. Bow of a La Tene III brooch, vertical grooves; Mackreth 2011, type ND 1.c. Suggested date: Late Iron Age to Early Roman, 25-70. Length: 43.3mm, Width: 7.2mm, Thickness: 1.6mm, Weight: 1.82gms
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2024
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Record ID: NLM-9E1877
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy brooch. Bow of a Colchester One Piece brooch, very corroded. Mackreth 2011, type C 2. Suggested date: Late Iron Age to Early Roman, 25-75 Length: 40.7mm, Width: 9.5mm, Weight: 3.60gms
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
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Record ID: NLM-B47531
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy brooch. Very nice Langton Down brooch, stamped decoration, perforated catch plate, Mackreth type LD 2.a. Suggested date: Late Iron Age 15BC-AD43 Length: 42.3mm, Width: 19.9mm, Thickness(?): 13.2mm, Weight: 8.44gms.
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: WILT-A16115
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Early Iron Age copper alloy La Tene I brooch, dating to c. 450 - 300 BC. Adams' (2013) Type 1Bb. The brooch would originally have had a four coiled spring but only one half of the coil survives. It is also missing the chord and its pin due to old breaks. The bow is rounded and arched, with a band made of two incised horizontal parallel lines below the spring mechanism, for decoration. The arch of the bow has incised and punched decoration, consisting of two vertical parallel lines (approximately 1.5mm apart) with small circles p…
Created on: Tuesday 7th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-E4BBB3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Iron Age bow brooch of La Tene I type, 39.5mm in length and dating to the 4th - 3rd century B.C. The integrally cast spring and pin is missing, as is the projecting terminal at the foot. The bow is flat, lenticular in shape with a slightly plano convex cross section 1.8mm thick and decorated with a pair of grooves along the spine. These grooves taper to each end of the bow where there are sharply angled junctions with the head and foot; the latter has a stump of a catchplate running along the underside.
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th October 2023
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Record ID: SUR-C084C1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A broken cast copper alloy Iron Age La Tène IBa brooch, dating from the 4th to the 3rd century BC. The brooch is cast as one piece, with an integrallycast spring and pin at the head. The spring has a separate copper alloy spindle within the coils to strengthen it. The pin is bent outwards, perpendicular to the rest of the brooch. The bow is strongly arched with flattened sub rounded to plano convex cross section and decorated with a pair of incised parallel lines along the spine terminating at transverse collars of paired incised lines at either end. The foot has …
Created on: Thursday 21st September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st October 2023
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Record ID: OXON-439AC3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A near complete cast copper alloy brooch, of Adams class 2LD dating from the Middle Iron Age 350-150 BC.  The pin is missing.  The top of the brooch comprises a central rounded knop (6.38mm diameter) from which the two wings extend on either side. The wings of the brooch are rectangular in plan and near circular in cross section and each terminates in a circular knop (5.9mm diameter).   The main body of the brooch emerges from the base of the central knop and is comprised of a thick humped bow which is oval in plan and crescent sh…
Created on: Friday 15th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st October 2023
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Record ID: BH-8A9D59
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Late La Tene Sedgford type brooch of Mackreth type 6.c, dating to the Late Iron Age to early Roman period (c. AD 25-60) Description: The brooch is comprised of part of the head, the bow and part of the foot.  The bow forms a tapering rectangle in plan and is plano convex in cross-section.  The bow is pitted and appears to be undecorated. Remains of wings project either side of the head, between which is a stamped multi-ring motif.  The head is abraided but the motif appears to have extended across the wi…
Created on: Wednesday 6th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st October 2023
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Record ID: OXON-E04E32
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy Colchester one piece brooch dating from the Late Iron Age to Roman period (c. AD 25-60). The brooch survives as the entire bow, left of the spring, and foot, while the catchplate, right of the spring, and pin are missing. The head of the brooch possesses two short wings which have a total width of 13.3mm although the the tip of the right wing has been bent to form a right angle towards the bow. They are thin and rectangular when viewed from the front of the brooch, or triangular when viewed from the top. Both narrow slight…
Created on: Tuesday 29th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2023
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Record ID: NLM-7DE894
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy with light green patina, brooch fragment. Fragment of a Langton Down brooch, Mackreth type LD 2.a. Suggested date: Late Iron Age, AD 25-60.  Length: 25.7mm, Width: 19.8mm, Thickness (?): 10.9mm, Weight: 4.80gms
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: KENT-9ACCDD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy Alesia brooch (Edgar's Type 21) of Late Iron Age date (mid 1st century BC). Description: The brooch has a triangular bow that tapers from a broad head to a pointed foot. The head is rolled under and still houses the remains of the axis bar, now in two pieces. There is a slot in the head to accommodate the pin which is now missing, as is the catchplate. The bow is decorated by three vertical converging zig-zag lines, one central and one on each edge, although that on one side has largely been lost to corrosion. The back of the brooch has a …
Created on: Wednesday 14th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: LIN-7274F8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A very worn and incomplete copper-alloy Late Iron Age brooch of Stead 1.b2 type dating to 1st century BC (100BC-1BC). The chord is internal with three coils. The bow is plano-convex and is curved,  terminating with a broken point. About 3/4 of the way along the bow is a very worn transverse moulding on the convex face between two transverse grooves.The catchplate and pin are missing.  Mackreth 2011 vol 1, p. 10, Stead 1.b2; vol. 2, p. 4, pl. 1, no. 2949 Length: 22.62 mm; Width: 11.65 mm; Weight: 3.11g.
Created on: Wednesday 31st May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 31st May 2023
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Record ID: WILT-90E687
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Middle Iron Age copper alloy brooch, dating to c 300 - 150 BC. Adams' (2013) Type 2Lb. The pin is missing. It has a thick humped bow, known as the leech form, roughly hollowed, bulging forward from the head and also bulging in width before tapering again towards the foot. It has an integral reverted foot, giving the appearance of a bent back foot closely abutting the bow but in fact the foot and bow are a solid piece of cast metal. The catchplate is formed by a groove, with overlapping pin curl at the side of the base of the bow. Part of …
Created on: Monday 8th May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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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: OXON-67141E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Iron Age La Tène III Nauheim derivative brooch dating to the period c.25 BC- AD 100. The brooch is almost complete only missing part of its pin. At the top of the bow is the head of the brooch. The head is made of three coils, one to the left of the bow, two to the right. The first coil to the left of the pin and bow is a direct continuation of the bow. From this coil, the curves underneath the bottom of the bow before folding back up to curve into the coil on the right end of of the head and then the final coil to the right of the bow. This final c…
Created on: Monday 24th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2023
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Record ID: NLM-EAF87E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy brooch. Cast Colchester brooch, Mackreth type C 3.3. Short plain wings mask a three coiled spring with a chord held by a backward pointing hook which projects from the back of the wings. The wings are at the top of a narrow bow with rounded front and facetted back which tapers to a plain foot [catch plate lost]. Suggested date: Late Iron Age, 25-50. Length: 45mm, Width: 11.8mm, Thickness (crest of bow): 1.7mm, Weight: 2.42gms
Created on: Tuesday 18th April 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 19th April 2023
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Record ID: SUR-DD66B8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy early Iron Age bow brooch dating to 450-300 BC, 27.7mm in length, complete with part of the spring, but missing its pin. The bow has a flat cross section and flares into a lenticular plate which is strongly arched and is decorated with two ridges which form an ellipse along the spine. The catchplate is incomplete. As Adams (2015) type IB-C.
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd March 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-CD7EBD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete late Iron Age to early Roman copper-alloy Rosette brooch dating c.20-60 AD.  The head, bow and lozenge plate survive with the pin and catchplate missing. The brooch is bent, worn and abraded. The sheet metal spring casing at the head is folded into a cylinder to encase the separately cast spring and pin. It has half a pin slot surviving and a worn horizontal raised rib on the front face. One half of the back is missing exposing the coiled spring, revealing three turns and the worn stub of the pin.  The flat sheet metal bow is rectangular in plan…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 11th May 2023
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