Record ID: BUC-BCC5DA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy Roman bow brooch, dating from the 1st to the 3rd century AD. The fragment consists of the foot and catch plate, and a small part of the bow which ends in a worn break. The catch plate is sub triangular in shape with the edges slightly bowed. On the catch plate there are two irregular trefoil perforations. The outer edge is turned inwards to hold the pin, and has a groove running down the inside. The fragment has a light green patina, and measures 26.4mm in length, 17.6mm in width, 3.8mm in thickness and weighs 2.44g.
Created on: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-69FCCD
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Report for H.M Coroner: 2019 T160 – Harness fitting hoard from Heck, North Yorkshire Circumstances of Discovery Between 4th and 22nd February 2019, a group of 11 Iron Age strap or harness fittings were found by [name redacted] while metal detecting on cultivated land belonging to [name redacted] (grid reference provided). Two subsequent discoveries by the same finder are most likely part of the same original deposit, and are included here. They are finds no. (12) (discovered in March 2019, 12m from the rest of the hoard), and no. (13) (discovered 23rd Septembe…
Created on: Friday 15th February 2019
Last updated: Thursday 15th December 2022
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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: YORYM-2D034E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy lozenge shaped plate brooch of Roman date, c.AD 100-200. The brooch is lozenge shaped with a worn trefoil shaped knop at each corner. A raised lozenge shaped rim is inset from the edges of the plate and contains a recessed cell, with a circular raised rim around a circular recessed cell in the centre of the brooch. The lozenge shaped cell is filled with the remnants of an enamel which is bright orange in colour. No trace of enamel remains in the central circular cell. On the reverse is an incomplete open sprung pin mechanism. An integral lug projects f…
Created on: Thursday 31st January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 31st January 2019
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Record ID: WMID-0AC123
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: City of Wolverhampton
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alooy double-looped buckle dating to the Post Medieval period (c. AD 1550-1650). The buckle consists of a sub-rectangular frame with lozenge-shaped knops at opposing outer edges of the frame. The bar is flush with the frame and has trefoil-shaped moulding at either end where the bar joins the frame. The pin is no longer present. The reverse is undecorated. The brooch has a slight bend making it appear slightly U-shaped in profile. A similar example can be seen in Whitehead (1996: 65) no. 402. The overall dimensions are as follows: 25.83mm in length, 47.61m…
Created on: Thursday 17th January 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
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Record ID: HAMP-BCB9E9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Roman sub-lozenge shaped and stepped plate brooch dating to c. AD 170-325, with one surviving lug (and possibly originally a lug on the three corners of the lozenge). It is missing the pin and the curl of the catchplate and the fourth corner of the lozenge (below the lug) is truncated. The sub-lozenge shaped plate is raised above two steps and has a rib flanking the base of the two sides closest to the hinge-end of the brooch. These are decorated with short transverse grooves. The raised area is 0.7mm deep and retains traces of probable decayed enamel; this…
Created on: Thursday 20th December 2018
Last updated: Thursday 7th February 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-2F1C0C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete Anglo-Saxon small long brooch. The brooch has a trefoil shaped head with erosion to the left arm of the head when viewed from above. The bow, foot and catchplate are complete though the brooch is slightly twisted. It is plain and undecorated with some corrosion to the upper surface, and has a green patina. The pin attachment beneath the centre of the head has a broken circulat attachment hole, with no traces of the pin remaining. The brooch is 60mm long, 25mm wide, 15mm thick and weighs 8.06g.
Created on: Saturday 1st December 2018
Last updated: Saturday 1st December 2018
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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: LON-8492D2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Post Medieval copper alloy annular brooch dating from AD 1450-1700. The brooch has a circular frame; it is convex at the front and concave at the rear. The frame is pierced with a circular hole to take the pin which is now missing. The frame is decorated with alternating elongated ovals and pellets with trefoil tops.​ The reverse of the brooch is undecorated with a mould line visible at the eight and two o'clock position. Other annular brooches on the database are KENT-4EB4F8 and NMS-6228C3. Dimensions: diameter: 27.14; thickness: 3.07mm; weight: 3.24g.
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th November 2018
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Record ID: IOW-3D98B9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) small-long brooch (c. 450-c. 600). The lower part of the brooch as well as the pin is missing. The flat head-plate is a trefoil around a central square. One of the side foils is smaller or has been damaged or abraded. At the front, the square has four ring-and-dot motifs, one close to each corner. There is also a ring-and-dot at the centre of each foil. The small portion of bow is convex at the front and concave on the reverse. On the front of the bow, at each upper corner, there is a small 'nick'. The reverse of the head-plate has the …
Created on: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-A257A6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Late Early Medieval Scandinavian (Viking) copper alloy Borre-style convex disc brooch dating from about AD 900 - 1000. It is decorated with three inward-looking Borre style animal heads separated by wedge shaped arms all springing from a triangular centre. Each arm is filled with a chevron. The three armed motif and the animal heads are all within a double line border in relief. There is some gilding surviving. On the reverse is a double pin-lug (with iron corrosion in perforations), and opposite it, the remains of a catch-plate set at right-angles to the edge. Part of the edge is d…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
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Record ID: SF-4F791B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast gilded silver radiate-headed brooch of early medieval date, comprising the head-plate and most of the bow (the pin, lower bow and foot-plate missing to old damage). A relatively fresh break has truncated the surviving portion of the brooch into two fragments across the upper portion of the bow, where it joins with the head-plate. These fit together snugly, though the break is not particularly recent. The entire front of the object is gilded, most of which survives with slight areas worn away on the very highest points of the bow. The head-plate is flat and semi-circ…
Created on: Friday 21st September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 14th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norton', grid reference and parish protected.

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: HAMP-EAAC20
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early early-medieval (Anglo Saxon, c.AD 450-600) copper alloy small-long brooch, missing its (iron) spring mechanism and the curl of the catchplate. The head-plate (26.1mm wide and 1.9mm thick) is trefoil in shape with crescentic arms, the two smaller side-arms have a central nick in the outer edge while the larger arm reaches a slight point at its centre. The head is decorated with two horizontal lines of five punched ring-and-dot motifs (from side-arm to side-arm and across the larger arm), with a single ring-and-dot motif between the two lines at the centre of the he…
Created on: Tuesday 4th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 6th September 2018
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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: 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: LEIC-ED0A3A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of an Anglo-Saxon small long brooch, with the head plate & part of the bow remaining. The head is trefoil shaped, and is decorated by a rectangle of straight incised lines on the upper face. The object is 25mm long, 29mm wide, 8mm thick and weighs 3.92g.
Created on: Monday 11th June 2018
Last updated: Friday 13th May 2022
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Record ID: NLM-E6BF36
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron fragment, probably from a knife, with a silver handle mount. The iron fragment appears to comprise part of the wedge-sectioned blade and sub-circular (?) sectioned tang, the broken stubs of which protrude from each end of a silver sleeve-like mount. The mount is cylindrical in form, the blade end enclosed and plain and the tang end with four regularly-spaced sub-triangular projections or prongs, each in the form of an animal's head. Two of the heads are now folded back, with the other two in their original position. The visible animal heads have pointed ears, a grooved brow, pell…
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haxey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-082AC4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy enamelled bow-and-fantail brooch dating from the early Romano-British period (circa AD 50-150). The brooch has a very flat semi-cylindrical spring casing wth the stub of either a rearhook or a headloop. The bow is formed of a disc containing a red enamel circle divided into quarters by the arms of a four-armed star motif extending from a central enamelled circle in an off-white colour. The off-white colour of the enamel may have degraded from an original yellow. This disc expands into a triangular fantail foot, containing a red enamelled triangle motif. This…
Created on: Wednesday 25th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 4th April 2022
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