Record ID: PUBLIC-4F2537
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Broken copper-alloy Roman devolved trumpet brooch of Bayley and Butcher 2004, Group C; Mackreth type TR. 1a.1a. The spring mechanism, pin, lower bow, foot, and catchplate are all missing. The trumpet-shaped head from which the brooch gets its name is plain; with a projecting nib uppermost. On the reverse of the head is a perpendicular loop that would have retained the spring. There is a three-disc knob on the upper bow. The outer tiers are fluted into four-petalled mouldings that run entirely around the bow. Both reverse petals are less prominent…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-C42320
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy fully-round, waisted detachable side knob from a Cruciform brooch, with remains of an iron pin bar in a median hole. Length 9mm. Diameter 7mm. c.450 - c.500. No. 15 on annotated map in file.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd October 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D73F63
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy fully-round, waisted detachable side knob from a Cruciform brooch, with a D-sectioned tab which would have projected in front of the headplate, and containing the remains of an iron pin bar in a median hole. Beyond the waist decoration consists of an encircling groove and two longitudinal flutes, both flanked by grooves. Two more grooves surround the disc-shaped part before the waist and the tab is adorned with two transverse grooves, then a flute and finally three more grooves. Length 19.5mm (12mm excluding the tab). Diameter 9mm. c.450 - c.500. No. 25 on ann…
Created on: Thursday 3rd October 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: IOW-C0D7CA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Roman brooch, probably a Continental plate brooch, c.AD 100-300. The brooch is a lozenge shaped plate with corroded rounded knops surviving at two of the four corners. One of these knops hides the catchplate, which is incomplete. The knop's obverse face is flat and is decorated with a raised edge, which may have contained enamel. The main plate of the brooch is corroded but has no decoration apart from the stepping. There is a raised, concentric, stepped, two tier, circular boss at the centre of the plate. No further decoration is visible on the obverse fac…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-C0DD0B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman bow brooch fragment, Langton Down type, c.AD 40-70. It has a cylindrical spring cover, partly un-curled in the centre and exposing three to four coils of the spring within. Both ends of the spring case are incomplete and end in old breaks. The case is decorated on the front with double incised lines along the top; these are heavily worn. The bow is flat-backed, and the front is decorated with reeding, consisting of several ribs with central grooves, also heavily worn and ending in an old break. The rest of the bow, the catchplate, and the pin are missing. Th…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-C79033
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Rearhook brooch with the spring, the pin, almost all of both wings, the lower part of the bow and all of the catchplate missing. The three beaks are not recent. Two probably beaded ribs run down the centre of the bow and some white-metal coating remains within the space between them. Weight 5.06g. Extant length 24.7mm. AD c.43 - c.65.
Created on: Friday 15th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-55F9B3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a copper alloy probable brooch of uncertain type, both ends broken. Moulded decoration consists of a low median rib with fine pellets flanked by double rows of pellets of two different sizes. A projection from both edges is in the form of a bird' head with a scrolled beak. The breaks are ancient. Extant length 16.5mm. Width 22.8mm. Thickness 1.5mm. Probably 7th century.
Created on: Friday 27th September 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: CAM-8C6C15
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early-Medieval lead nummular disc brooch. The brooch weighs 13.32g, has a roughly circular shape with maximum diameter of 32.5mm. It has a thickness of 2.6mm at the edge of the disc, increasing to 7.1mm over the squashed over catch-pate and has a thickness of 6.3mm over the squashed over pin-lug. The face of the brooch is decorated with low relief moulding of concentric circles. Around the edge of the upper surface is a ring of closely set pellets, each pellet having a diameter of 2.2mm. Within that ring is a continuous circle of 1.9mm width. Inside that is a second…
Created on: Thursday 1st December 2022
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-654A2D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a copper-alloy brooch of Roman date, dating to c. AD 80-200. The fragment consists of just the bow. It is sub-triangular shape with a slightly concave reverse. No decoration is present on either side.  The object is a green / brown in colour and has a worn and abraded surface patina.  Measurements: 26.4mm length, 7.7mm width, thickness 3.5mm, weight 1.1 grams.
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-82876F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Colchester derivative rearhook brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) type CD RH 1, perhaps 1g. The spring, pin, foot, catchplate and tiny fragments of the tips of the wings are missing. The rest is in a fairly worn and abraded condition, including the breaks. The wings are C-shaped in cross-section, convex on the front and concave on the reverse. They are each decorated with a pair of moulded transverse ridges near the tips. The short distance from these ridges to the head of the bow is longitudinally concave, suggestive of a bead and reel motif. The bow is…
Created on: Friday 7th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-9E4C60
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Roman copper alloy Rosette brooch, spring, pin, rear part of spring housing and part of catchplate missing. The front of the spring housing is decorated with two grooves near both ends, the bow and the foot with ribs and grooves, the almost flat rosette with standard pendent triangles. The backplate extends close to, but does not touch, the spring housing. Engraving on the reverse of the comprises a transverse engraved line immediately above the catchplate and a large V-shape with its apex above the top of the backplate. The catchplate is pierced by a single…
Created on: Wednesday 18th September 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-0A599F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Colchester derivative rearhook brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) type CD RH 4b or 5b. The spring, pin, all but a stub of the chord-hook and catchplate are missing. The wings are convex on the front, concave on the reverse (a very shallow C-shape in cross-section). They taper in width from the head of the bow to their rounded tips. One is more heavily abraded on the underside and has lost a greater depth of surface on the front due to corrosion. Neither wing preserves any evidence of decoration. The reverse of the better preserve wing retai…
Created on: Friday 24th November 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-F1B4B2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Rearhook brooch with the spring, the pin, part of the rearhook, the lower part of the bow and all of the catchplate missing (the breaks are not recent). The wings are decorated with bead and reel and the low and wide triangular-sectioned bow with pairs of beaded ribs flanking a wider median rib. Mackreth 2011 CD RH 1.e. The proportion of the bow and wings is close to that of ibid. pl. 39 no. 865. Weight 4.47 g. Extant length 18.8mm. Wingspan 20.5mm (width of bow at top 10mm). AD c.43 - c.65.
Created on: Sunday 17th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-55DD68
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Roman copper-alloy Colchester derivative Harlow brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) type CD Ha 1.a1a and similar to Ibid Pl. 31, No. 1016. It is minimally distorted and complete except for the pin. The wings are concavo-convex in cross-section and broadly rectangular when viewed from the front. The edges at the tips are very slightly curved. One is broadly perpendicular to the top and bottom edges and the other is very slightly oblique. The wings are not decorated.  The spring is in-situ and immobile: its coils and the external chord have corroded and fused to the wings and to each…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: SF-63C406
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman continental plate brooch dating to 25-250AD. It is an elongated lozenge, with a circular recess with a extant stud. To the reverse are the remains of a semi-circular catchplate and pin lug, although the pin is missing.  Length: 31.81mm Width: 18.69mm Weight: 1.72g
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dullingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-063ABA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Late Iron Age to Roman copper-alloy Colchester derivative rearhook brooch of Mackreth’s (2011) type CD RH 1b or 1c and similar to ibid Pl. 38, Nos. 795 and 812. The spring, pin and all but a stub of the chord-hook and catchplate are missing. The wings are C-shaped in cross-section: convex on the front and concave on the reverse. Viewed from the front, they are slightly narrowed or waisted as they emerge from the head of the bow. They then expand into a now almost circular terminal, probably rounded by wear and abrasion at the tips. They are fully decorated on the front…
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: SF-637A85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) radiate-head brooch dating to AD 500-570. The base of the foot and pin are missing; but is otherwise complete. The head is broadly cruciform in plan, with a semi-circular head plate and three semi-cylindrical projections. A slightly curved bow projects from the flat edge of the headplate before tapering outwards to terminate in an old break. Two lugs are on the back of the head plate where the pin would have attached, though the pin is no longer present. There are the remains of the catchplate, broadly rectangular…
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bottisham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-1054EE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy Roman sprung brooch, with a dark green-grey patina. Similar examples found in Cornwall can be found at: Record ID: CORN-6048B0 - ROMAN brooch (finds.org.uk), Record ID: CORN-11178A - ROMAN brooch (finds.org.uk), and Record ID: CORN-E69D3E - ROMAN brooch (finds.org.uk). Dimensions: Length of brooch (remaining), 18mm. Width of spring (remaining), 17mm.  Weight: 2.93g.
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: SF-63108C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper alloy small-long brooch. Only the foot of the brooch and a part of the bow survives. The bow fragment is D-shaped in cross-section with a steeply D shaped curve and a raised rectangular panel decorated with transverse grooves across its lower end. The foot has flattened rectangular cross-section and a straight upper section, flaring into a spatulate terminal at its lower end. The outer face of the straight section has, from top to bottom, a plain section with bevelled sides, followed by two fine, transverse grooves, then a …
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hethersett', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-62E973
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) ansate brooch dating to 800-1000AD.  The bow is rectangular in section with a central arch. At the highest point of the bow is a raised rectangular panel. The front face of the panel is decorated with two transverse grooves. At both ends of the bow are tri-lobed terminals. The front faces are decorated with one central longitudinal groove with a diagonal groove to either side. To the reverse is the catchplate which is a simple strip that projects rearward from one side of the brooch, tapers in width almos…
Created on: Monday 22nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bottisham', grid reference and parish protected.