Record ID: SF-7DE487
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy late Iron Age to Roman birdlip brooch. All that remains of the upper bow/head is a bent oval section with a transverse groove on its upper surface providing little information about its original form. Below this a flattened disc-shaped section projects outwards from the outer face of the bow with a pointed crescentic section below it curving downwards and outwards. The upper surface of the disc-shaped section is a decorated with a smaller, shallower disc and there is a groove where it joins the lower bow. Below this the lower bow is straight, tapering and sub…
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7DB528
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) supporting arm brooch or Stützarmfibel. The head is a flattened rectangular shape with incomplete circular lugs projecting from either end of the reverse. The upper end of the bow expands to the full width of the head where they join leaving a only a small recess along the upper edge of the outer face of the head. The rest of the upper and middle bow is uniform in size, D-shaped in cross-section with a rounded outer face and strongly curved in profile. Across the lower end of the outer face of the bow there is a raised flat&nbs…
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7D9469
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) small-long brooch. At the head there is a trefoil-shaped plate consisting of a central rectangular section with a D-shaped projection to either side, each with a notch to either side behind it creating a constriction. A further D-shaped section would have projected from the outer end originally, but this is now missing. To the reverse there is the inner remains of a single lug pin fitting. The upper part of the bow projects downwards from the lower edge of the head. This is D-shaped in cross-section with a flat rev…
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F34E65
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An fragment of a copper-alloy early medieval (middle Anglo-Saxon) ansate brooch. Only one terminal survives. This is sub-lozenge shaped with a straight break across its inner end. Its outer face is decorated with an incised saltire cross-shaped dividing it into four lozenge-shaped cells, each decorated with parallel engraved chevrons. There is evidence that small lobes projected from each of the three outer corners orginally, but two are missing and the remaining one to one side is hardly visible due to corrosion. To the reverse a double lug pin fitting projects still holding a corrode…
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F346FC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) probable small-long brooch. Only the foot of the brooch survives. This is an expanded patulate or axe-shape with inwards curving sides and outwards curving lower edge. There is a break where it probably attached to the brooch. There is no evidence of decoration, but the edges are damaged and corroded. This style of foot appears on several forms of small-long brooch (and on the later Anglian equal-arm brooch, but these are less common). Penn and Brugmann (2007) place the small-long brooches within their phas…
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F33F3E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) small-long brooch. Only the foot of the brooch survives, making it difficult to identify the type. The foot terminal is a narrow spatulate shape with inwards curving sides and straight lower edge and curves inwards slightly when viewed in profile. Above this on the outer face there is a raised panel, D-shaped in cross-section, its outer face decorated with multiple transverse grooves and above this a narrow, undecorated section that expands very slightly towards its upper end where there is an abrupt break where …
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F33735
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) cruciform brooch. Only the foot of the brooch survives with a well worn break across its upper end. This terminal of this is zoomorphic in decoration and slightly tapering towards the tip. The outer face of the terminal is decorated with a semi-circular moulding to either side of the tip producing the effect of nostrils and above this, at the widest point of the terminal, there is a pellet-like eye to either side. Across the inner end of the terminal there is a raised panel, D-shaped in cross-section, its outer face d…
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D99974
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of middle Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy (bronze) brooch of Elmsett type (Weetch type 16). Originally cross-shaped, only one flaring arm now survives. It has concave sides to the arm, the more complete arm curving increasingly tightly around a cut-out which is therefore more oval than circular. The end of the arm is convex. The fragment has two circular holes; one is smaller (1.6mm diameter) and is in the centre of the arm within a reserved circle. The other is larger (2.7mm diameter) and closer to the edge of the arm, so close that it has now broken through the edge of the brooch.…
Created on: Thursday 1st July 2021
Last updated: Monday 27th September 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-73B0B6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman rear hook Colchester derivative brooch. The head is incomplete, only part of one wing surviving. This surviving section is decorated with a wide transverse flute. The reverse of the head is concave and the remains of a rear-facing hook projects from the centre of its upper edge. The bow is a flattened D-shape in cross-section, curved in profile and tapering towards a rounded break at its lower end. The outer face of the bow is decorated with two widely spaced, parallel, longitudinal ribs running down the centre. The lower bow, foot and catch-plate are …
Created on: Monday 14th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 14th December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-23505E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper alloy Roman Polden Hill brooch of folded wing ends type. Only the head and upper part of the bow survives. To the rear of the head there is the reamins of a rear-faing hook and an a central open section where the spring would have sat with substantial, solid cylindrical end-caps, each c.7.68mm wide, at either end. The outer face of the wings are decorated with two pairs of raised transverse lines with a slight groove between the pairs. The bow is narrow, slightly humped and highly curved in profile. It is decorated with three raised ribs with a sunken section al…
Created on: Thursday 29th October 2015
Last updated: Sunday 25th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8E1197
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy annular brooch of Medieval date. It is missing the pin due to old breaks. The frame is flat, annular in form and with six evenly spaced collets. Between each collet the outer edges of the frame have triangular projections, one of which has a circular aperture that served as pin hole, missing its outer edge due to old breaks. The collets contain a white substance/solder that would have held in place the now missing settings. The back face of the brooch is flat and undecorated and all exterior surfaces have extensive toolmarks. The entire object measures …
Created on: Tuesday 5th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 17th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-0AC9C8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy small-long brooch of Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon date. It is missing the terminal end of the foot, outer edges of the pin lug and catchplate, and the pin, due to old breaks but is otherwise complete. The headplate is flat, trefoil in form with a central square plate from which extend three semi-circular arms. The arm to the right has been bent forwards due to post-depositional damage. Each of the arms is decorated on its front face with an incised border at the inner edge, along which runs a row of seven punched semi-circles. On the back face of the head…
Created on: Tuesday 21st December 2010
Last updated: Friday 7th January 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-509736
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn and incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman trumpet derivative brooch. The head and part of the bow survive, the remainder of the brooch now missing due to old breaks. It has a plain, undecorated trumpet shaped head with slight transverse groove visible at the top of the front face. On the reverse of the head is an integrally cast raised rectangular moulding with an incomplete circular aperture to one side that would originally have housed the now missing spring and axis bar. The original form this moulded area would have taken is uncertain due to old breaks and post-deposition…
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 7th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-ACF881
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy annular brooch of Medieval date. It is missing the pin due to old breaks. The frame is flat, annular in form and with six evenly spaced collets. Between each collet the outer edges of the frame have triangular projections, one of which has a circular aperture that served as pin hole. The collets contain a white substance/solder that would have held in place the now missing settings. The back face of the brooch is flat and undecorated and all exterior surfaces have extensive toolmarks. The entire object measures 23.23mm in diameter, 3.38mm in thickness, …
Created on: Friday 29th October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 4th November 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-BFA192
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Aesica brooch with Celtic-style motif (length: 47.8mm; width (at wings): 21.9mm; thickness (at wings): 5.1mm; weight: 12.66g). This brooch’s style is rather unusual and has its origins among the Rosette/ Thistle brooches of the 1st century AD. The wings have rounded terminals, which at one end, seem to extend out of an open-mouthed decoration. There is a hole at the head in between the wings (diameter: 1.9mm) which perforates through to the back. This would have been for a crest, now missing. There is a simple line of scroll work lifting from one …
Created on: Friday 25th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF7411
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete La Tene I brooch, missing end of foot, pin and most of spring (old breaks). Half of the first coil of the spring survives, and has some iron staining. This then swells out and arches up into a heavy solid oval-section bow, at its most measuring 5 x 7 mm in cross-section. There is no decoration on the bow. The bow then tapers and curves back down again to form the foot. This has a grooved extension to one side which forms the catch for the pin; beyond this it begins to curve back up again towards a broken-off terminal. Total surviving length 49 mm, height of curved bow …
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ELMSWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7115
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy domed disc brooch (Hattatt's Umbonate types). Complete except for abraded side knobs and some enamel; bent. Hinged pin. The projection over the hinge is pierced, but the hole is blocked by the pin. The other projections are simple knobs. The two rings of 14 enamelled triangles contain blue in the outer ring and traces of alternate red and blue in the inner ring; the central dot is empty. Diameter excluding projections 23 mm, domed height 6 mm. As Hattatt no.128, and Hacheston publication no.178.
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 14th July 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ELMSWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5092
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Knotenfibel, complete except for part of the catchplate, part of the spring and the pin. The name Knotenfibel has no good English equivalent; it refers to a Late Iron Age one-piece brooch with a moulding on the bow derived from the returned foot of a La Tene II brooch. This example has two coils surviving of a large spring; the diameter of the wire making up the coils is 2 mm and the coils themselves are 10 mm in external diameter. Other Knotenfibeln with complete springs (e.g. Elmswell, Suffolk, sf281/3599) have two coils to either side of the pin. The break in the spring is old. …
Created on: Wednesday 21st March 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CAMBRIDGESHIRE STOW CUM QUY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3862
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Bow and foot from an unusual long brooch, probably a small-long but possibly a cruciform brooch . The bow starts with a fairly fresh break at the upper flat panel; there is a trace of iron corrosion on the reverse here. The flat panel is decorated with two transverse grooves and below this tapers to a point. Below this the bow is facetted, with a double row of punched dots down the centre. The lower flat panel is the same pentagonal shape as the upper one, but does not have the double transverse groove. Below the bow is a flat panel ending in a double transverse groove, then a pan…
Created on: Monday 6th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ELMSWELL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3599
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Knotenfibel, complete except for the foot and part of the catchplate. The name Knotenfibel has no good English equivalent; it refers to a Late Iron Age one-piece brooch with a moulding on the bow derived from the returned foot of a La Tene II brooch. This example has a bent but complete pin, and a spring made up of two wide coils to either side of the pin and a chord running under the top of the bow. Below, an expanded flat-section bow tapers to a circular-section moulding. The moulding is decorated with fine cross-hatching all around its circumference, and has a groove and a narro…
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ELMSWELL', grid reference and parish protected.