Record ID: LON-15FE75
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval lead alloy annular brooch dating from AD 1300-1500. The brooch frame is square in plan with seven evenly spaced trefoils (only six remain) running around the outside, one at each corner and then one between except on one side where the frame is pinched to receive a pin now missing. Running around the frame is an inscription. I Y V O I [] V. The reverse is undecorated. Dimensions: length: 22.95mm; width: 21.33mm; thickness: 2.11mm; weight: 2.56g A annular brooch with similar inscription is illustrated in van Beuningen (2000:470 no.2159). Reference: Va…
Created on: Tuesday 20th June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
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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
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Record ID: CORN-54AD06
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast pewter pilgrims badge consisting of a quatrefoil frame around the mitred bust of St Thomas Becket of Canterbury, with an accompanying tassle that extends to the left of the head. The mitre has a border of pellets with a collet formed of a pellet within an annulet at the apex and in each angle of the base of the mitre. The eyes and mouth are composed of raised lentoid ovals with central pellets, divided by raised arched eyebrows and a straight 'I' shaped nose. The tassle is formed of five cords that terminate in a round knop that represents the knot holding them together…
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
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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: LEIC-E4B792
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval? lead alloy mount or brooch? 28mm long, 27mm wide and 8mm thick with a weight of 16.18grams. The object has a trefoil form and a rectangular cross section. Where the three roundels join in the centre there is a large raised pellet, this is surrounded by further smaller pellets of two sizes, possibly arranged loosely in threes. The body of the object is 5mm thick, with two attachments on the reverse expanding it to 8mm thick. One is a rectangular shaped strip which may have once sat proud of the object, but is now flattened. The other is aligned at a 90 degree angle to th…
Created on: Friday 2nd October 2015
Last updated: Monday 5th October 2015
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Record ID: NMS-247B85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead alloy composite disc brooch with an integral pin. Only one of six trefoil lobes, each with three pellets, survives around the outer edge of the frame, and it has been bent through ninety degrees onto the reverse. The outer edge consists of a ring of small pellets. Within this a concave slope rises to a sharp rim before a downward slope on which there are twelve evenly spaced larger pellets around another ring of small pellets. Within this there is a plain inner edge which, through miscasting, is detached for more than half of its circumference. On the reverse there is a …
Created on: Thursday 1st May 2014
Last updated: Friday 8th May 2015
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Record ID: LON-48A8E2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval mirror with an openwork lead-alloy surround (17th century). The artefact is teardrop-shaped with a layer of mirroring on the front and back, held in place by a decorative lead-alloy frame. On either side of the top point of the frame is an openwork loop, with another openwork loop in between them to form a triangular arrangement. The arrangement is very suggestive of a decorative attachment loop, either for a pendant, or for a toy mirror. On each side of the lead-alloy frame beneath these loops are three s-shaped curlicues, evenly spaced to cover the entire …
Created on: Thursday 1st October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NMS-52BFE4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval lead-alloy probable belt mount, cast hollow-backed trefoil with undecorated short convex arms and sub-triangular moulding in centre, the elongated ends of which form dividing ribs. Stump of integral spike in centre of hollow reverse. 21 x 20mm. Cf. a slightly smaller but otherwise very similar piece from Sandringham (NMS-E4735) which was tentatively dated to the 10th century on the grounds of similarity to trefoil brooches.
Created on: Thursday 22nd May 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Dereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-065302
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy Medieval brooch with an open, lozenge shape frame. Each corner of the frame is trefoil-shaped. There is a circular hole in one corner, probably for attachment of a separate pin (now missing).
Created on: Monday 14th August 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Henlow', grid reference and parish protected.