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Record ID: NMS-D0E282
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and bow from an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch. The flat, apparently undecorated headplate has a sub-rectangular central panel with three flat 'knobs', all of which appear to have been mushroom-shaped, or D-shaped above narrowed waists. This shape of headplate is often known as 'trefoil'. On the reverse of the headplate is a broken pin bar lug (worn breaks) with iron staining around it. All the edges of the headplate are worn. The bow is D-shaped in cross-section, quite highly arched and simple, with a groove across the top the onl…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D0333A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper-alloy annular brooch with most of the pin missing. The frame is oval, flat on the reverse and bevelled on the internal and external edges on the front. There is a constriction for the pin at one of the narrow ends and opposite this an externally-projecting approximately trefoil or T-shaped knop. This has two short opposing convex-edged and pointed lateral foils and a larger and longer central foil, perpendicular to these and parallel with the pin. It terminates in a rounded point shortly after a step-down in thickness from the front of a fraction of millimetre.  T…
Created on: Friday 2nd February 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-CD2389
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Headplate of an Early Anglo-Saxon copper alloy Small-long brooch with abraded edges and an old break at the base. Leeds 1945 Trefoil-headed type. The absence of rounded notches between the upper and lateral foils is noteworthy. There is no decoration. The incomplete single pin lug on the reverse retains a trace of the iron spring. Weight 4.84g. Extant length 20.2mm. Width 27.3mm. Late 5th - early 6th century.
Created on: Monday 27th February 2023
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2023
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Record ID: NMS-410936
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Anglo-Scandinavian copper alloy Trefoil brooch, Maixner Type G 1.3, engraved lines define the triangular central panel, the three arms are decorated with stylised leaf ornament. One arm with incomplete curled sheet catch-plate on reverse, another with the stumps of a broken transverse pin-lug, the lower arm is bent. Width 39mm. Length (unbent) 39mm. Weight 8.02g. This type of pin lug indicates manufacture in England rather than Scandinavia (Kershaw 2013, 63). Cf. Rogerson (1995) Middle Harling, fig.34, no.2, decoration very similar although Harling example has ring-and-dot. Late 9th-ea…
Created on: Monday 10th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 16th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E85D63
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete gilded silver disc brooch of  middle Anglo-Saxon date. About a quarter of the flat plate is now missing, but the surviving part includes the pin fixings, and part of the silver pin also survives. The front is gilded and has low-relief decoration now a little obscured by hard soil deposits, best described with the pin running horizontally and the missing area to bottom left. The design appears to be based on a cross, with four drop-shaped panels (at top left, top right, bottom right and the missing one at bottom left) each with its point towards the edge. T…
Created on: Monday 25th July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-4BEE2E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon copper alloy small-long brooch of Leeds 1945 Trefoil-headed type, headplate damaged, single dot on both arms, triangular-sectioned bow broken where the foot is missing.  Twin pin lugs on reverse containing the corroded remains of an iron pin. Extant length 27.5mm. Extant width 14mm. Weight 3.98g. c.480 -c.500 AD.
Created on: Monday 30th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 22nd July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-7DCFDA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Anglo-Saxon copper alloy Small-long brooch, Leeds 1945 Trefoil-headed type, with small parts of the foils, the lower part of the bow and the footplate missing (breaks not recent except for one on the top foil). A row of double concentric half-annular stamped impressions lines the top and sides of the centre of the headplate on which there is a large ring-and-dot. A rectangular panel forming facets at the top of the bow is engraved with a pair of transverse lines and two more widely spaced lines run down the centre of the hollow-backed bow. An incomplete s…
Created on: Monday 2nd August 2021
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7CAF1B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy early Saxon small long brooch. Foot, spring mechanism and pin are all missing. Square head with outward flaring arms to the top and sides extending to crescentic ends, forming a trefoil shape. The bow springs from the base of the head initially in a flat rectangular shaped cross- section but then narrows to form a convex sided shape with a plano-convex cross-section and a slight upper arris. The top and sides of the head, start of the convex bow, and where the ends of the arms begin expanding are all delineated with twin transverse lines. The expanded ends of …
Created on: Sunday 21st March 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th November 2021
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Record ID: NMS-A9A00D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy late Early-Medieval cast convex disc brooch of Jansson type II a. Very worn relief surface decoration with the vestiges of Borre-style imagery in the form of three cat-like animal heads facing the centre of the brooch between a trefoil knot. The hollow reverse has a pin-lug aligned with the outer edge with a broken pin-stub through its centre. Diametrically opposite is a broken catch-plate set at right-angles to the outside edge of the brooch. It is 23mm in diameter. The brooch can be compared with Margeson, The Vikings in Norfolk, 1997, p. 21, fig. 22. This example dates…
Created on: Friday 4th December 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 8th December 2020
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Record ID: NMS-F5A606
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an early-medieval copper-alloy brooch dating to the period circa 800-1000 AD. The artefact consists of the terminal of an ansate brooch. On the back the pin-lug is visible, although it is enveloped in extensive iron corrosion. The front of the brooch consists of a small, rectangular in plan, segment of the bow and the complete terminal motif, comprised of a trefoil design. It contains an elongated central lobe flanked by two smaller ones characterised by outward curved grooves. The object has a dark green patina and traces of silvering on the surface. Length: 18mm;…
Created on: Monday 16th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 10th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-063E60
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman Aucissa brooch. The head consists of a flat rectangular plate which rolls up at the rear to hold the iron axis bar, still in situ. There is a slot in the centre to allow the pin to hinge on the axis bar. The pin is also in situ although only about fifty percent of its the original length survives. The head is decorated at the top with two transverse bands, possibly ornamented with ropework. There is a central groove along the length of each band. The bow emerges from the head with a plano-convex cross-section, and here there are two moulded transv…
Created on: Friday 11th October 2019
Last updated: Friday 18th October 2019
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Record ID: NMS-390B5A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and abraded Early Saxon copper alloy Small-long brooch with most of the footplate and of the catchplate missing. Decorative detail is largely obscured by wear but a groove defines the springing of each foil. The hollow-backed bow tapers down from one rectangular panel forming facets to another, below which the stump of the footplate carries one transverse groove. On the reverse there is an incomplete rust-stained single pin lug and and the upper end of the catchplate. Extant length 40mm. Width 25.5mm. Weight 8.99g. c.475 - c.525 AD.
Created on: Friday 14th June 2019
Last updated: Friday 22nd November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-105E22
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early Saxon to Middle Saxon copper alloy Ansate brooch with broken D-sectioned bow and trefoil shaped animal-head terminal, decorated with two large annulets for the eyes and an engraved bordering line. Stump of lug or catchplate on reverse. Related to Thörle 2001 Gruppe III B. Extant length 30mm. Width 11mm. Weighs 2.30g. 7th century.
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2019
Last updated: Monday 2nd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-D31552
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and uncommon form of Early Saxon copper alloy equal-armed brooch, D-sectioned bow, slight facet at both ends, a trefoil-headed plate as found on small-long brooches is used here as a footplate, the probable matching head-plate is missing. The rectangular head is outlined with worn stamped twin semi-circles, bordered by the remains of incised lines and outward- facing stamps of twin semi-circles although the smaller of the two arms lacks this line of outward- facing stamps. Catch-plate on reverse. Extant length 38mm. Width 29.5mm. Weighing 7.96g. Cf. a pair of brooches, from…
Created on: Monday 4th March 2019
Last updated: Monday 2nd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-999942
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Anglo-Scandinavian Trefoil brooch of the Late Saxon period with most of one arm missing (an old break). The arms are decorated with stylised acanthus ornament and a ring-and-dot sits in the centre and at each corner of the central triangular motif. On the reverse a double or H-shaped pin lug of Scandinavian form projects close to the branching of two arms and a transverse or C-shaped Anglo-Saxon type catchplate lies near the end of a third. The pin fixings show that this example was produced in England, a copy of the Scandinavian prototype Maixner 2005, subgroup G 1.3 1a, a…
Created on: Tuesday 5th February 2019
Last updated: Monday 16th December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-C11572
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of an unusual gilt copper alloy cruciform brooch (extant width 35.5mm, extant length 28mm, weight 11.45g), head-plate, upper edge broken, both wings broken, one across the remains of two perforations, the other also with two perforations, both containing the corroded remains of an iron rivet and retaining a scrap of silver applique sheet on the face. Sub-triangular or trefoil-shaped stamps with twin-barred points or foils and a central pellet border the sides of the central panel. Cracked above the junction with the rectangular panel on the surviving stump of the missing bow.…
Created on: Monday 26th November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 7th July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-9143D7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and abraded Early Saxon copper alloy Small-long brooch, all of which is missing below the upper end of the D-sectioned bow where there is a rectangular panel. One lateral foil remains almost intact, its edge being followed by a row of part-annular stamped impressions. The same impressions can be made out on the central foil. There is an incomplete single pin lug on the reverse. All breaks appear ancient. Weight 5.85g. Extant length 26mm. Estimated width c.44mm. c.475 - c.525.
Created on: Wednesday 12th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8EA305
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and rather abraded Early Saxon copper alloy Small-long brooch, with much of the headplate, the lower end of the bow and the footplate missing. All breaks are ancient. Probably Leeds 1945 Trefoil-headed, although only one foil is extant. The gently hollow-backed bow begins with a curving transverse rib rather than a rectangular panel. The stumps of a double pin lug and traces of an iron pin mechanism remain on the reverse. Weight 5.00g. Extant length 30.7mm. c.475 - c.525.
Created on: Wednesday 12th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-6F5421
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Anglo-Scandinavian copper alloy Trefoil brooch, Maixner Type G 1.3, engraved lines define the triangular central panel, one of three arms survives, decorated with stylised leaf ornament and with curled sheet catch-plate on reverse. Extant width 22.5mm. Extant length (unbent) 32mm. Weight 4.41g. Late 9th-early 10th century.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th February 2021
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Record ID: NMS-16EB83
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Saxon copper alloy Small-long brooch of either Leeds 1945 trefoil-headed or cross potent type, slight raised panel. Most of the edges of the headplate are missing, and the bow and all below. On the reverse the single pin lug sits amongst traces of an iron spring. Extant length 16mm. Extant width 21.5mm. Weight 3.99g. c.480 - c.500.
Created on: Monday 12th February 2018
Last updated: Monday 3rd August 2020
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