Record ID: IOW-72E3A6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Roman brooch of the Langton Down (variant) type (AD 43 - AD 100). Length 16.1mm, width 16.3mm and 7.7mm thick. Weight 2.97g. The wings, the spring and the pin are incomplete and the lower part of the bow is missing. All the breaks are old and abraded. The wings appear to have fully enclosed the spring mechanism. However, part of the wings at the rear is missing due to ragged breaks. Each end of the wing is also missing. Viewing the brooch from the rear, the left side of the spring is intact and consists of five coils, including the coil that evolves i…
Created on: Monday 6th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 27th May 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-F50120
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Early Roman Colchester derivative brooch (AD 50 – AD 80). Overall length 22.8mm, width 33.0 and maximum thickness 3.9mm. Weight 5.99g. The lower part of the bow and catch-plate are missing due to an old break. The spring mechanism (including the chord) and pin are also missing. The wings which are 33.0mm in width are semi-cylindrical (concave at the rear). The wings are abnormally long for a Colchester brooch and might suggest a link to some of the South-western brooches which have long wings. At the end of each wing, at the front, there is a sim…
Created on: Sunday 12th August 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-ECBD77
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy and enamelled lozenge-shaped plate brooch of Roman date (c. AD 100 – c. AD 200). Length: 27.3mm; width: 20.4mm and 6.1mm thick. Weight: 2.61g. The pin is missing. Part of the plate, part of one of the pin lugs and part of the catch-plate are missing due to old breaks. The edges are up-turned to form a distinct narrow rim which appears to have been punched to form denticulated decoration. However, this is barely visible and unclear due to corrosion. The centre of the brooch is raised in one step and contains a lozenge-shaped field with enamelled m…
Created on: Tuesday 11th December 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-860517
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy Aesica brooch of Roman date, (AD 50 – AD 75). Length: 39.2mm; width: 19.9mm and 15.0mm thick. Weight: 16.47g. The brooch consists of partial wings, a bow and a leg and has an incomplete catch-plate. The surfaces are corroded and pitted overall. The head and the wings are incomplete due to old breaks and corrosion. The spring would have been protected at the front by the semi-circular wings and a rearward projecting hook behind the head would have held the chord. The closed bow is strongly arched in side profile (as viewed from the side). In plan, th…
Created on: Wednesday 30th April 2008
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-2EA442
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy rosette variant brooch of Roman date (AD 43 - AD 70). Length if straightened 37.0mm, width across wings 12.6mm, maximum diameter of bow 12.2mm. Weight 2.21g. Most of the axis bar, part of the curled over head (cylindrical tube), the pin and part of the catch-plate are missing. The head is curled over rearwards,forming a cylindrical tube to accommodate the axis bar. The axis bar appears to have been made of iron as the surviving part of the tube is filled with iron corrosion. At the centre of the head is a V-shaped groove which enabled the pin to rotat…
Created on: Thursday 21st September 2006
Last updated: Saturday 25th August 2012
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Record ID: IOW-DE50E0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy rectangular plate brooch of Roman, second century date (c. AD 100 - c. AD 200). Length 13.1mm, width 11.9mm and thickness of plate 1.1mm. Weight 1.19g. About half of the plate, including the catch-plate, the spring mechanism and pin are missing. There is an old transverse break across the plate. At the front, the brooch has an indistinct peripheral raised rim within which is the curving end of a decorative shape. This shape, when complete, was probably in the form of an 'S' and represents a sea-creature. The shape is defined by a narrow raised curvil…
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2006
Last updated: Saturday 25th August 2012
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Record ID: IOW-397E24
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast and wrought copper-alloy Colchester one-piece brooch of Early Roman date (c. AD 50 - c. AD 75). Overall length 52.0mm, maximum width 23.0mm. Weight 7.46g. One half of the coiled spring, the pin and the catch-plate are missing. The brooch, an early example of this type, is particularly long and slender. The integral spring arises from the centre of the rear. Viewed from the front, it spirals to the left first. Only half of the spring of six (or possibly eight) coils has survived. These are to the left, as viewed from the front. This surviving part of the spring encl…
Created on: Tuesday 9th January 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd January 2012
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Record ID: IOW-DE0193
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast and wrought copper alloy Colchester derivative two-piece brooch of Early Roman date (c. AD 50 – c. AD 75). Overall length 57.0mm, maximum width 14.0mm. Weight 6.27g. The coiled spring, the pin, most of the axis bar and the catch-plate are missing. The brooch is long and slender. Small diminutive wings are fully intact and have an overall width of 14.0mm. These afforded some protection for the missing spring mechanism. At the head of the brooch there is a stub, representing the remains of a forward projecting hook that would have retained an external chord (now m…
Created on: Saturday 10th February 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: IOW-AD1B74
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper alloy saucer brooch of Early Anglo-Saxon, late fifth/early sixth century, date. The brooch is a Dickinson sub type IIB5. Diameter 30mm and 3mm thick. Weight 8.61g. The front is slightly convex and the rear is slightly concave. The upturned (or angular) rim is broken and missing and the broken edge is very eroded. Part of the flat area of the brooch is also broken and this break is old, but does not appear to be as old as the breaks around the edge. The front of the brooch is decorated with a central ring and dot motif enclosed by five running spirals with tend…
Created on: Thursday 24th June 2004
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
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Record ID: IOW-985B51
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Bent, (perhaps deliberately) copper alloy sixth century AD equal-arm brooch with a gently curving bow that has a median rib. The head-plate is semi-circular and is divided longitudinally into two cells. These cells are partially filled with garnets some parts of which have been lost, perhaps in antiquity. The rectangular foot-plate consisting of a single cell would probably have accommodated a garnet (now lost). The brooch is bent in such a way that the pin lug and catch-plate are in contact. At one side of the pin lug there is a deposit of iron corrosion. Traces of gilding survive on…
Created on: Tuesday 30th September 2003
Last updated: Monday 29th October 2012
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Record ID: IOW-272203
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of the foot terminal of a cast copper alloy small square-headed brooch, length 18.5mm, width 11mm and 1.8mm thick. The break is old. There is a plain border around the bottom and the incurved sides of the fragment. Within the border are vertical grooves which appear to have extended upwards and outwards. Below these grooves a stylised human mask is represented by linear and curvilinear grooves. The mask is in similar style to three brooches found at the Chessell Down, Isle of Wight, Anglo Saxon cemetery in the nineteenth century. These brooches are published in Arnold 1982.
Created on: Sunday 19th October 2003
Last updated: Monday 29th October 2012
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Record ID: IOW-D0C117
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper alloy ansate bow brooch of the Early Early-Medieval period, sixth century. The pin is missing. Length 51mm, maximum width of the bow, maximum thickness 7mm. Weight 15.44g. The elegent, acutely arched bow has a median carination and is concave at the rear. Viewed from the front the sides of the bow taper inwards towards the top and the bottom. The head and the foot of the bow are similar in appearance to each other. However, the foot is slightly longer than the head. At each side of the head and the foot is a small circular side-lobe. Each of these lobes is about 3.5m…
Created on: Wednesday 14th April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 27th May 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Calbourne Parish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-65CDF2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper alloy radiate-headed brooch of Early Early-Medieval date (AD 500 - AD 600). Length 22mm, width 18.5mm, thickness of plate 1.2mm. Weight 2.65g. The piece is the head-plate and part of the bow of a miniature form of radiate-headed brooch. When complete it would have had a triangular-shaped foot. The flat undecorated head-plate is semi-circular in plan and has a small projection with a rounded end at each lower corner. There is a double knop at the apex. The bow is flat on the rear face and the front face has a central longitudinal arris forming a sub-triangular sh…
Created on: Friday 8th April 2005
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Calbourne Parish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-2BA9E1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Iron Age to Roman cast copper-alloy rosette/thistle brooch (AD 25-60). This brooch has tubular open-ended wings which are not fully enclosed due to a horizontal slot at the rear. The ends of the wings are incomplete as they are broken and there is an off-centre vertical pin slot at the rear. The wings have a maximum diameter of 8.3mm. Within the wings are the remains of an iron spring and pin loop. On the wings, just above the top of the bow, are two sets of oblique decorative grooves. Each group is at either side of the centre of the wings. The bow is sub-rectangular …
Created on: Tuesday 1st January 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 1st January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.