Record ID: LIN-640C24
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A late Anglo-Saxon lead disc brooch of Weetch type 4C, dating circa 950-1000. The disc brooch is of the 'Curved Arm' type (Weetch 2014, p.76, fig. 3.11). The brooch is circular, flat, and largely in good condition apart from damage to the perimeter. The brooch is decorated with a lozenge with a perimeter formed of a pair of beaded lines. This lozenge encloses five moulded pellets. Each of the arms of the lozenge terminate with a transverse collar formed of two beaded lines. Beyond each collar each arm appears to flow into an interlace design which spills into the voids in each angle. …
Created on: Monday 11th March 2019
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horncastle area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-4240A4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
Lead fragment, probably from a Roman bow brooch (c. 43 - 300 AD). The fragment is from the head of the brooch, comprising two tubular wings from which the bow (oval in section) curves out and down. The fragment is extremely worn and the ends of the wings are broken. The fragment has a light-brown patina. It is 18.00mm in length, 23.02mm in width and 9.12mm in thickness. It weighs 14.84g. While Roman brooches are predominantly copper-alloy, lead versions were often made as the first step in the manufacture process. Other examples recorded on the database include: WMID865, DENO-C70F8…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Friday 23rd November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-C70F8A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast lead Roman brooch of Colchester derivative, Polden Hill (Mackreth Part 3, Group 4.j1, flat wing ends type) (AD c.80-120). The fragment consists of the head with cast-on headloop and wings of the brooch. The wings are cyclindrical with expanded end caps. On the reverse is a raised mound where the pin would have extended from. The fragment has a white patina. Overall the object measures 20.35mm long, 22.71mm wide and 9.17mm thick.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: FAKL-935975
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval lead disc brooch fragment. The decoration is concentric and consisted of a ring of pellets and two plain, raised rings. What is now the outer edge appears toothed and the central area was raised, as is seen on the lead brooch from Ketsby. (Leahy, 2007, Fig. 80, 6). A projection on the back may represent part of the pin mechanism. These brooches, when decorated, can be shown to be tenth-eleventh century.Length 17.0mm, Width 11.2mm, Thickness 3.5mm, Section 1.4mm, Mass 1.64g.
Created on: Sunday 3rd January 2016
Last updated: Sunday 3rd January 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BUC-83AD38
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A lead disc brooch of late early-medieval to medieval date (c. 11th century). The front bears a cast design in low relief dominated by a cruciform flower formed of four lentoid petals around a central pellet. Each petal is raised more than the rest of the design, which includes cross-hatching between them. This is contained within a double border filled with transverse ribs giving a laddered design. On the reverse is a central casting seam with a large U-shaped loop towards one end and a small curled C-shaped catch-plate towards the other; the pin is missing. It measures 20.33mm …
Created on: Tuesday 15th September 2015
Last updated: Monday 4th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-120845
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead brooch of Weetch's type 13, defined as having a raised central field. It is of late Early Medieval date, probably 11th century, and is unusual in that it appears to be the first known to be decorated with a single face mask. It is missing much of the outer edge and pin lug due to old breaks, now worn. The flat outer edge is decorated with beaded decoration and there is a circumferential groove before a central, circular flat-topped raised boss. The outer edge of the boss is decorated with a circumferential border containing diagonal grooves. Within this is a cent…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AE4D73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead disc brooch of Weetch type 4.C and late Anglo-Saxon date. It is missing its pin due to old breaks but is otherwise intact. The brooch is flat, disc shaped in form and with moulded decoration on the front face. This comprises a central voided arcuate cross, so made up of four back-to-back curved ridges, all now worn but with pellet terminals at each end of the arms. A larger pellet or boss is at the centre of the cross. The cross is contained within a border formed from a double band of pellets. The flat back face of the brooch is undecorated but has an integrally…
Created on: Thursday 18th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-863D34
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of an early Anglo-Saxon brooch made from lead, probably a small square-headed brooch. Only the headplate and a small part of the upper bow survive. The bow is curved and the outer face is worn. The headplate is roughly square with a large raised outer border with decoration consisting of an inner border with two raised ribs internally. This may have continued down the bow but it is too worn and fragmentary to tell. To the reverse is a lug. This type of brooch would date from the 5th to 6th century AD. Compare SWYOR-1ED855.
Created on: Tuesday 18th March 2014
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WAW-0BF416
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A possible incomplete cast lead alloy or lead pattern for the manufacture of a two part Colchester derivative brooch. The brooch pattern has wings which on the reverse have an off-set surface, and are not cylindrical as perhaps may have been expected. In the centre of the reverse of the wings there is a slightly high-relief oval platform where normally this is the deepest area of the cylindrical wings of a brooch such as a Polden Hill brooch, The upper edge of the wings is slightly angular and the wing terminals are asymmetrical. The bow head, in profile is slightly hump-like and is s…
Created on: Monday 25th March 2013
Last updated: Monday 27th January 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-0D8085
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An elaborate and well preserved Anglo-Scandinavian nummular brooch made out of lead. The brooch is circular, flat, and decorated around the perimeter with six bands of small pellets. The centre of the brooch is decorated with two lines diving the face into a quatrefoil. In the middle of each angle is a large sub-rectangular pellet. In the corner of each angle is a pellet-in-ring. The rest of the field is filled with smaller circular pellets. A pin-lug and catch-plate are located on the reverse. The pin-lug is of traditional form for this type of brooch, having two rounded lugs housing…
Created on: Friday 31st August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: FAKL-FD4E61
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Anglo-Saxon brooch made from cast lead. The face bears a motif consisting of a triqueta, its three arms made up of two raised lines their ends terminating in pairs of opposed scrolls surrounding pellets. In the centre of the disc is a single pellet and, around its edge, is a ring of pellets. The brooch is crushed and no trace of remains of the pin and clip. On the back of the brooch is a series of scratches which could, with the eye of faith, be interpreted as the stern of a ship, with two steering oars a mast and a yard.
Created on: Saturday 19th February 2011
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Walkington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FF8471
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of an Early Saxon lead cruciform brooch or model thereof, comprising part of the headplate with the top knob. The latter is now three-quarter round, but may once have been fully round before abrasion. The sides and base of the headplate are missing. The stub of a single pin lug, with part of a transverse perforation, projects from the reverse. The surviving piece measures 24 x 11mm x 8mm and it dates from the mid to late 5th century.
Created on: Wednesday 26th January 2011
Last updated: Thursday 16th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Attleborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E8A4D5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead disc brooch of late Early-Medieval date. It is missing the pin and the outer edges of the pin lugs due to old breaks. The brooch is flat, circular in form and with relief decoration on the front face. This comprises a double stranded border within which is contained an animal or beast in the Jellinge style. The animal is positioned in a reverse S-shape and has a triangular head with oval shaped eyes and a bulbous open jaw. Extending from the base of the mouth is a double-stranded tongue that interlaces with the body and one leg. The curving neck and body run along o…
Created on: Thursday 25th November 2010
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-DE8EF6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Cast lead nummular brooch of late Anglo-Saxon date, Weetch type 5. The brooch is now incomplete, but would have been circular; it is rectangular in section. The outer edge of the upper surface is decorated with five small raised bosses which are each encircled with a ridge. Between each of these is a small circular pellet. This band of decoration is bordered on each side by an inscised line. In the center of the object is a raised boss. One side of the object has broken away. The reverse is undecorated. There is a raised projection on the reverse which was possibly part of the attachm…
Created on: Thursday 9th April 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nether Peover', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-B664E6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast lead Late Saxon brooch. The brooch is circular and flat. It has been decorated on the front with a ladder-style border. Inside this are three crescents, each decorated with the ladder-style border. There is a raised crescent inside each one. There is a Y-shaped field between the crescents. There is a central, large pellet and a row of smaller pellets in each arm of the 'Y'. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The remains of the lug and catchplate can be seen and these have been arranged longitudinally. Both parts are badly squashed and damaged. No pin survives.
Created on: Monday 12th January 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Paull', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-C321A3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast lead Early Medieval Anglo Saxon cruciform brooch. The fragment consists of part of the foot. Either side of which are lappets, originally in the form of eagle's heads. At the lower end of the fragment is a moulding representing the brow with ridges above the eyes on the foot. Behind the foot is the remains of the catchplate, which has been turned over, apparently for use. A feature of the brooch that cannot be understood is the material that fills the recessed lines on the face of this object. This is mid-green and purple in colour and seems soft. It has been su…
Created on: Friday 8th February 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 24th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Westborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-B40A88
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A lead alloy early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch which is broken with two large fragments surviving and other parts missing. The brooch has a rectangular head with a raised central panel. Moulded terminals project upwards and to the sides. These consist of a central zoomorphic lobe with moulded eyes and a projecting snout with a projecting scroll on each side. The scrolls are open work and may be exaggerated nostrils or whiskers. They are tapered. Only the left hand terminal is complete. The lower edge of the head of the brooch is torn and missing, and the other surviving piece is the …
Created on: Friday 2nd November 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Riding', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-415104
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch fragment, lead, probably the foot terminal from a florid brooch. The object is in the form of a human face and is roughly D-shaped in cross-section. The upper surface is decorated in relief with a prominant forehead and deep set moulded eyes in the form of two large moulded pellets. The nose is large, triangular and flanked by two chubby-looking curved cheeks. There is a deeply incised elongated triangular channel at the bottom of either cheek, which emphasises them against the rest of the face. The mouth is relatively small and represented by two ver…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Edlington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-413577
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, lead. The fragment is part of the foot and catchplate. At the top the object is broken just below the bow. There is a flat rectangular plate with the remains of an incomplete catchplate on the reverse. There are two moulded transverse collars below, the uppper of which is thicker than the lower. Below the collars is an incomplete animals head. There are two large eyes represented by two moulded pellets. The forehead is D-shaped in cross-section and the snout is missing.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Edlington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-877FF4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch; fragment of a possible lead model for an Early Saxon cruciform brooch, foot only with pointed terminal between two discoidal nostrils, upper part slightly hollowed near break on reverse. Cf. examples from Quidenham and others in Leahy (2005) Med. Archaeol. 337-341. Åberg Type II b.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd May 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Rudham', grid reference and parish protected.