Record ID: CAM-F03992
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a very incomplete copper-alloy artefact, probably a Roman brooch, probably a trumpet headed bow brooch of 2nd century AD, (or possibly a plate brooch of mid to late 1st to 2nd century AD). It is likely that all edges represent a broken edge although some small areas might be extreme wear to a true edge. The upper and reverse surfaces both damaged through post depositional decay and or damage. This fragment weighs 5.55g, has an incomplete length of 29.8mm, incomplete maximum width of 17.5mm and maximum thickness of 7.3mm. The fragment has an irregular sh…
Created on: Saturday 23rd September 2023
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
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Record ID: CAM-F00DE1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bent but complete Roman bow brooch, of Colchester derivative hinged form, dating to c. AD43-120. This brooch weighs 5.56g and has a maximum width, across the wings, of 26.2mm. In its bent condition it has a height (length) of 30.9mm and occupies an arcing depth from front to back of 23.8mm. The wings are cylindrical but asymmetrical, with no obvious join line along the cylinder. When viewing the brooch from the front with the head upper most, the wing to the right is well defined, has a slightly convexly capped terminal and transverse groove of 1.1mm crossing the who…
Created on: Saturday 23rd September 2023
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
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Record ID: CAM-FF2B9B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy annular brooch frame of Medieval date. Weight is 3.25g, external diameter on the pin constriction axis is 21.8mm, external diameter on the axis at 90 degrees to that is 23.6mm. The frame has a sub-circular shape, the pin constriction accounting for 2.3mm of the total circmference. The frame's cross-section is circular with a diameter of c.3.0mm, the pin constriction also has a circular cross-section the diameter reducing to 1.3mm. The pin is not present. There is no decoration on the frame nor any evidence of a surface coating.
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-53E051
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Early-Medieval cruciform bow brooch, only the terminal of the foot survives and even this is incomplete having a break at either end. None of the foot's flat panel survives. A worn transverse break is present at what would originally have been the junction between the, now missing, flat panel and a raised moulding of transverse ribs that does survive. This moulding has a semi-circular cross-section, width of 14.9mm x thickness 6.1mm and measures 6.1mm on the artefact's length axis. Just past this proximal break, the reverse surface becomes concave. P…
Created on: Friday 4th November 2022
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2023
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Record ID: CAM-C14813
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Roman brooch of Headstud or Headstud variant type. Complete, with exception of the missing pin, this type dates from the mid. 1st to 2nd century AD. This brooch weighs 11.78g, has a maximum width of 16.2mm and maximum depth, of bow arc, (from external front surface to rear of brooch) of 22.3mm. From base of foot to highest point (top of head-loop) the brooch has a length of 42.00mm.  The head: Viewing the brooch from the front, the wings have a sub-rectangular shape, with rounded corners - possibly due to wear rather than design. These wi…
Created on: Saturday 23rd July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
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Record ID: CAM-B3D3E6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver Medieval annular brooch with zoomorphic decoration. The brooch frame weighs 1.56g and the pin is absent. The brooch frame has a 'D' shaped cross-section, the reverse surface being flat, and circular shape which has been decorated to resemble two snake like beasts entwined. The beasts appear to probably be amphisbaena although possibly one end of each snake is actually an enlarged and swollen tail rather than second head. If the later possibility is correct then this could be an attempt to represent the rattle on a rattle snake. On the pin constriction axis the brooch …
Created on: Friday 10th September 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 21st December 2022
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Record ID: CAM-085C5F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Extract from: Report for H M Coroner "Circumstances of discovery: The object was metal detected on a controlled developer-funded archaeological excavation of a multi-period site and came from the topsoil in Area E1. CHER event ref: ECB6227 (also used as site code). Description: Incomplete medieval annular 'coronet' brooch (Ra 1074) with six collets spaced evenly around the upper side of the frame. Each collet retains a cabochon cut paste stone; five are blue, one is white. The pin is missing. It is made from a white metal presumed silver. Dimens…
Created on: Monday 21st June 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 1st March 2023
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Record ID: CAM-56883D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval silver annular brooch with pin intact dating to c. AD 1200-1400. The brooch weighs 0.59g, on the axis across the brooch in line with the pin constriction and pin, the sub-circular frame has an external diameter of 16.8mm and internal diameter of 14.4mm. The external diameter of the brooch, across the axis at 90 degrees from that given above, is 16.1mm and 13.2mm internally. The thickness of the frame is 1.3mm. The metal that the frame is formed from originally had a square or sub-square cross-section of c.1.2mm x c.1.2mm. Each side of this square cross-sectioned le…
Created on: Tuesday 13th October 2020
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-51ED1C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval silver annular brooch with decorative twisted (cable pattern) frame. The pin is intact, and both the frame and pin have punch-stamped decoration. The brooch weighs 2.85g, the annular loop of the frame has an oval shape externally measuring 30.6mm over the pin axis and 25.4mm on the axis at 90 degrees from the pin. It is likely that the loop of the frame is somewhat squashed from its original shape, the frame to one side of the pin having an undulating rather than smooth continuous arc between the pin constriction and opposing side of the frame where the pin tip comes t…
Created on: Monday 1st June 2020
Last updated: Thursday 23rd June 2022
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Record ID: CAM-4D3B9E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman copper-alloy fantail brooch, dating to c.AD 85-150. The head of the brooch has wings that give the artefact a maximum width of 15.7mm. These wings measure 5.7mm on the length axis and curve backwards forming a depth of 3.6mm. The curved wings would originally have contained a hinged pin, now missing. Some fantail brooches have a headloop. The example described here does not include an integral headloop. However, the upper edge of the head and wings feels quite rough and bumpy if one runs a fingertip along the edge. Given the corroded condition of this object it is …
Created on: Friday 20th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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Record ID: CAM-4B1BDA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy British plate disc brooch with remains of enamel. Originally circular in shape much of the edge of the artefact is now missing due to damage. The remains weigh 5.62g. The brooch currently has a diameter of 27.5mm but the catchplate on the reverse surface protrudes past the edge of the disc plate at which point the diameter, on that axis only, measures 29.9mm. However, when one starts to carefully study the decoration on the brooch it becomes clear that the full original maximum diameter of the brooch has been lost, that the end of the catchplate did not orig…
Created on: Friday 20th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 3rd September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mid Suffolk District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-4A7263
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman disc brooch dating to c.80-c.250 AD. This incomplete brooch weighs 9.25g. The disc has a thickness of 3.2mm at the centre and thins towards the edge where it measures c.1.5mm. It has a sub-rectangular cross-section and diameter of 33.8mm. The edge of the disc is expanded at four cardinal points (one of which is now missing) by rectangular knobs that project out on the same plane as the disc (Hattatt, R. refers to these as peripheral lugs but they could also be described as tabs). The side tabs each account for c.5.6mm of the disc's circumference, exte…
Created on: Friday 20th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 1st October 2021
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Record ID: CAM-4A09B1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Early-Medieval cruciform bow brooch. Only the head and bow survive on this example giving an incomplete length of 61.6mm and weight of 14.40g. The headplate has a maximum width of 29.1mm and accounts for 18.8mm of the artefact's length. The thicker raised central panel has a sub-rectangular shape, its width measuring 13.4mm at the top and accounting for 17.5mm of the headplate's width at the distal end. At the approximate centre, slightly off of true centre, of the central panel there is a dot and circle decorative motif. This motif was formed by use of…
Created on: Friday 20th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 27th September 2021
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Record ID: CAM-050623
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy late Iron Age to early Roman bow brooch of Colchester two-piece type, dating to the 1st century AD. This incomplete brooch weighs 6.48g. The widest point on the artefact is across the wings. However, one of the wings (the left-hand wing as viewed from the front, if the head of the brooch is held uppermost) is incomplete (the lower edge missing) and the tip curved rearwards towards the underside of the brooch. The width axis across the wings currently measures 28.0mm. It is uncertain whether the incomplete wing has an extremely worn break, diagonally along th…
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 4th March 2020
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Record ID: CAM-04F1B9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy late Iron Age to early Roman bow brooch of Colchester one-piece type, dating to the 1st century AD. This incomplete brooch weighs 2.68g. The widest point on the artefact is across the wings. However, one of the wings (the right-hand wing as viewed from the front, if the head of the brooch is held uppermost) is incomplete and the tip of the other is bent backwards towards the underside of the brooch. The width axis across the wings currently measures 7.3mm. It is uncertain whether the incomplete wing has an extremely worn break close to the side of the head o…
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd January 2020
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Record ID: CAM-DD499C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy annular brooch, complete except for a missing pin, of Medieval date, and possibly ranging into the start of the early Post-Medieval period. This circular shaped annular brooch frame weighs 4.39g, has an external diameter of 29.4mm and internal diameter of 22.6mm. It has an oval cross-section with width of 2.7mm and thickness of c.3.2mm (on the frame's diameter axis). The frame constricts for 2.2mm of circumference to form a pin constriction for the now missing pin. The constriction reduces the frame's cross-section to a width of 1.8mm and thickness of 1.9mm. No dec…
Created on: Monday 21st October 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-82F8A9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper-alloy brooch frame. The frame weighs 6.09g and is lozenge shaped. The arms of the frame have a trapezoidal cross-section. The reverse surface of the frame is flat, the inner and outer sides angle inwards to a slightly narrower flatten, slightly convex, upper surface. The maximum width of the arms is 4.9mm and maximum thickness is 2.7mm. The external dimensions of the lozenge have a width of 32.3mm and height of 33.2mm. A pin constriction is present at one corner. This gap in the frame, at this constriction, has a width of 2.3mm. The integral pin bar across the con…
Created on: Tuesday 30th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 4th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Uttlesford District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-0494D3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman bow brooch of Hod Hill openwork type. These type of brooches date to the first century AD. The pin, now missing would have been hinged on a transverse bar held in place within a rolled over head. The head curves up and over to form a forward facing oval roll of 16.3mm width, 3.2mm depth and 4.1mm thickness. A gap of 1.3mm is present at the centre, through which the pin would originally have projected. The centre of the rolled cylinder is blocked by corrosion product, although darker in colour than the copper-alloy of the brooch body use of a magne…
Created on: Wednesday 24th April 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th March 2020
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Record ID: CAM-25CF08
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late Post-Medieval to Modern gold brooch set with purple gem-stones. This incomplete artefact weighs 1.22g. It has an asymmetrical ovoid shape, having one wider rounded end and tapering to a point at the other end, that curves over to one side. The shape could also be described as an asymmetrical falling water-droplet (tear-drop) shape. Overall the brooch measures 17.3mm x 13.1mm with a thickness of 2.2mm. The brooch has an aperture at the centre that vaguely mimics the shape of the external edge of the artefact. The inner edge of the wider end has a semi-circu…
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2019
Last updated: Sunday 12th September 2021
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Record ID: CAM-F600D1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman Colchester derivatve brooch (also known as hinged Dolphin type). One of the wings and the pin are completely absent. The surviving wing has a length of 12.5mm and is cylindrical with a diameter, close to the bow, of 5.4mm tapering to 4.5mm at the end. A circular void is present through the wing that would originally have held a pin bar. This void has a diameter of 1.4mm at the inner end though seems slightly larger at the tip of the wing. This void is now filled with dried mud and or corrosion product. A shallow groove is present along the length of th…
Created on: Friday 4th January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 17th January 2019
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