Record ID: LIN-2C0C14
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) small long brooch dating to c.AD 450-550. Penn and Brugmann (2007) Sm2 or Sm3. Only the headplate and part of the bow has survived. The headplate comprises a trefoil head with three projecting sub-rectangular lobes with semi-circular cut aways at each angle. The bow springs from the headplate; it has a D cross-section and is decorated on the convex side with oblique indentations where the bow meets the headplate, creating a trapezoidal block at the upper portion of the bow. A central raised band extends from the block.…
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Greetham with Somersby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-FD3483
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy brooch of early medieval date. Description: Fragment of an early medieval copper alloy brooch of the cruciform type, dating from AD450-600. The remaining portion consists of the lower end of the bow and the foot. There is a ridged collar across the top of the zoomorphic animal head foot. Below the grooves there is a low brow ridge with two bulbous eyes above a long face of what appears to be a horse head terminal. There is a slightly enlarged trefoil shape terminal representing the nose. The stump of the catch plate remai…
Created on: Thursday 13th July 2023
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Haconby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-ADD57D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon brooch dating to c.AD 450-550. Penn and Brugmann Type sm2. The brooch has a trefoil head with circular cut out between each lobe. The three lateral lobes are decorated with ringed dots, a single ring-and-dot at each width on the transverse lobes and the upper lobe has an additional ringed dot in the centre. There is iron corrosion in the centre of the headplate, partially masking a larger ringed dot. The bow springs out of the headplate, a prominent D-shaped and curved. The bow has mainly delaminated; decoration is visible on the …
Created on: Monday 3rd April 2023
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Carlton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-171ED4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Anglo-Scandinavian or Viking copper-alloy trefoil brooch, Maixner Type G 1.3, dating circa AD 850-950.  The brooch is flat and has three arms with rounded terminals. The arms carries a motif consisting of V-shaped ridges, sometimes described as fir-tree or herringbone ornament but really it is a stylised acanthus motif, surrounded by two sub-rectangular borders with a curved outer edge. In the centre is a triangular panel, which has been left blank, within a triangular border. The reverse has the remains of a single lug, the opposing lug has been…
Created on: Tuesday 20th December 2022
Last updated: Monday 13th February 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-5345BC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy and glass brooch. Small cast trefoil openwork brooch of clover-leaf form with a small stalk below and with a low central collet retaining a semi-translucent glass stone of a green tint with a blue spot. Traces of white metal plating appear on the display face. A small soldered gutter set centrally on the back marks the site of a pin or other fixing. Probably costume jewellery or a ‘fairing’ or item of trinket jewellery. Suggested date: Modern, 1900-1950 Height: 17.9mm, Width: 22.6mm, Thickness (clear of stone and pin gear): 1.8mm, Weight: 1.82gms
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-19E127
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch fragment. Cast ansate brooch, of plano-convex section, with a trefoil claw end and four zones of moulded ornament along its remaining extent, with a possibly central hump; Weetch type 6. An integrally cast catch protrudes from behind the clawed end. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 600-700 Length: 30.6mm, Width: 7.0mm, Thickness (clear of catch): 4mm, Weight: 3.66gms
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-3B0E06
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Finger Ring of Post-Medieval date (AD 1850-1900). The outer band of the ring reads 'MIZPAH', each letter is placed inside a raised ornamental frame with trefoil terminals. The last frame is empty and is surrounded by a raised frame with trefoil terminals. The internal band is undecorated. The band is now unfurled and broken. Length: 45.58 mm, Width: 7.56 mm, Thickness: 1.62 mm, Weight: 4.10g The ring is of 19th-century date when Mizpah jewellery was popular in the mid to late Victorian era as a token of sentimentality. Other types of jewe…
Created on: Monday 22nd February 2021
Last updated: Friday 7th January 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-4019D6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, cast, copper-alloy, early medieval (Middle to Late Anglo-Saxon) brooch, dating to c.AD 700-1000. The brooch is rectangular in form with flared terminal trefoil lobes, widening to 7.97 mm. The bow narrows to 3.52 mm at the central apex. The lobes are decorated with an incised triangular motif which echoes the triangular form of the lobes. Where the bow meets the lobes there are transverse raised ridges and grooves. The bow is decorated with triple transverse ribs at its apex. On the reverse, the catchplate is in-tact with a curled lip and the lug is surrounded by ir…
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Last updated: Friday 1st October 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-83ECAA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) small long brooch dating to c.AD 450-550. The brooch is now in two pieces and is missing part of the bow and a headplate knob. The headplate consists of a rectangular plate that has a semi-circular cut out at each angle and two flared crescentic knobs. The rectangular plate has a central ring and dot design and, similar to this, each knob is decorated with a central ring and dot motif and a semi-circular punched design along the outer curved edge, some of which has worn away. The third knob has been broken off. Th…
Created on: Wednesday 20th January 2021
Last updated: Friday 22nd January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cammeringham area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-4D5F36
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy brooch still retaining its pin dating from the early to middle Iron Age (800 -500 BC). The brooch consists of a central bow 10.86mm wide and 2.18mm thick. At each end of the central bow the brooch ends in a set of 3 circles, in a trefoil pattern, each one 9.32mm across, with the bottom of two of the circles level with the end of the central bow thus forming the base. Each circle has a smaller circle set within it. Each of these inner circles measures 3.78mm across. The centre of the inner circle, and the area between the inner and outer circles is recessed. …
Created on: Friday 20th September 2019
Last updated: Friday 6th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Sotby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-2B80C8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch fragment. Cast cruciform brooch fragment, comprising the lower bow and zoomorphic foot. A plain zone below the mid bow is limited by a pair of horizontally moulded ribs, each with a central groove. These are above a horse head with protruding eyes and a V-shaped moulding at its nostrils, below which is set a trefoil terminal. The stub of a catch plate appears behind the plain and moulded zones. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 500-600 Length: 41.3mm, Width: 8.9mm, Thickness (clear of catch plate): 2.6mm, Weight: 6.07gms
Created on: Monday 20th May 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 21st May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Faldingworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-B76F5E
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete silver post-medieval hooked tag. This composite object is formed of a trefoil of hollow-domed bosses, each surrounded by a twisted filigree wire annulet. The domed surfaces of these bosses have sustained some damage in the past. The bosses are separated by a trefoil of large granules, around a central granule or pellet. The back-plate has an engrailed edge. A lateral rectangular attachment loop is soldered to the reverse of the trefoil and a separate recurving sharp wire hook is soldered to the back of the lower boss. Areas of the surface have a gilded finish. Parts of the …
Created on: Thursday 21st June 2018
Last updated: Monday 17th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-B031BF
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy trefoil brooch dating to the Early Medieval period (c. AD 850-950). Two out of three arms of the trefoil are intact and these two arms have been bent round so that the rounded tips meet. The pin is now missing though the remains of an integral lug to attach the pin are apparent in the centre of one of the arms on the reverse. The decoration on the face of the brooch consists of a central triangle formed of two incised lines. Each arm of the brooch also has a double incised border which butts up to the central triangle. Inside this border, each arm is dec…
Created on: Friday 26th January 2018
Last updated: Monday 3rd December 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DUR-58ABBE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete coper alloy trefoil plate brooch of Later Early- Medieval date (AD 850-1050). The object is composed of three integral arms which are decorated with a raised elaborate knot motif across the entire face of the object. The object is heavily corroded and abraded and further stylistic detail has been lost due to this. The reverse is smooth and undecorated and retains two rectangular projecting spurs with semi-circular recesses. These spurs would have been the pin mount (or lugs) which consists of two half-round plates set vertically into one arm; the pin would originally hav…
Created on: Monday 7th December 2015
Last updated: Monday 7th December 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-C91156
Object type: BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy badge. Cast discoid badge resembling the form of a small annular brooch, with a broad band and nine [or ten originally] moulded ring and dot spaced equidistantly around its band. The central part appears to have been filled with five or six small trefoils projecting from the cusps of a tressure, and subsequently partly removed by the knife-cut trimming of a roughly cruciform figure, possibly to permit sewn attachment. A mould line and opposed stubs of fastening gear appear on the back. This object appears to be a member of a class of base metal gew-gaws or trinket jewellery…
Created on: Friday 6th November 2015
Last updated: Friday 6th November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Owersby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-4E5328
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early Medieval long brooch dating to the 450 to 550 AD. The brooch consists of a square plate with 3 semi-circular projections, forming a trefoil shaped head decorated with ring and dot patterns. The reverse of this contains an incomplete semi-circular pin attachment but the iron pin is missing. The bow has a D shaped cross-section curving upwards, forming an arch before returning to a flat alignment where its reverse holds a catchplate. The length is 62mm, the width is 40mm, thickness 15mm and the weight 11.35g. The brooch is similar to fig. 15.74, p.144 in MacGregor, A. and Bolic…
Created on: Monday 19th October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 27th October 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-A43E83
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval (Viking) copper alloy trefoil brooch. 42mm long, 41mmm wide and 2mm thick. The brooch is in very good condition and weighs 12.88g. The brooch is flat and has three arms with rounded terminals. The brooch is decorated with a central triangle formed of two incised lines. Each arm of the brooch also has a double incised border which butts up to the central triangle. Inside this, each arm is decorated with a further linear border which contains a series of diagonally positioned sub-triangular 'nicks' running down each edge. This gives an appearance of a leaf motif. many of …
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th December 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-E54F02
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of an Anglo-Scandinavian trefoil brooch. Only the tip of one arm remains. It is triangular, flat and decorated with stacked lines. Nothing is on the reverse.
Created on: Tuesday 21st January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 29th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chapel St Leonards', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-F2B4B1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver gilt annular brooch fragment dating from the Medieval period, probably the 14th century. The fragment consists of a rectangular cross-section frame embellished with a beaded knop and a collet. The collet is linked to the knop by a forking branch which has a trefoil terminal resting against the collet. There is a scar on the other side of the collet where a matching feature would have been attached. There is white paste in the hollow top of the collet, but the gem or glass setting is missing. A very similar and more complete example is GLO-F97DA4 (2012 T386).
Created on: Monday 16th December 2013
Last updated: Sunday 31st January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-DEFAD6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval, copper alloy, small-long brooch. It is broken in two pieces just below the bow. The head plate is trefoil shaped with small rectangular notches out of either side of the top of the bow. The bow is triangular in section and short. The foot has four rounded ridges running across it just above the spatulate extension terminal.There is an intact catch plate on the reverse which sits just above the flared terminal. there is also an intact pin lug on the reverse of the headplate. Length 78, Width 38,Thickness 4.5 weight 22.69. Penn and Brugmann Type sm2 with trefoil head.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd December 2013
Last updated: Monday 3rd April 2023
Spatial data recorded.