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Record ID: SF-479626
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
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East of England Rallies 03/09/2022 For full details please contact the Suffolk County Council Historic Environment Record (quoting EUN 078, 079, 080, 081, 082). Object Type Date Description Jetton Medieval   Jetton Medieval   Strap end Medieval   Pin EIA Complete copper-alloy 'swan-necked pin'. The outer surface of each face of the head is decorated with a central line of small incised dots. Early Iron Age, c. 800 - 400 BC. Coin Roman Copper-alloy nummus of the House of Va…
Created on: Friday 16th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 27th September 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Euston', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: BUC-CBE455
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Buckinghamshire
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A copper alloy Roman brooch with a raised, circular socket that may have held an enamel or glass setting, that is now missing. The empty socket has a central deoression. There are three concentric borders, stepped down from the centre and decorated with punched transverse lines. The outer border has a small, flat 'D' shaped lug on one side that was probably mirrored on the damaged opposite edge. A trefoil lug, decorated with three pairs of concentric circles, has the catchplate on the reverse. This may also have been mirrored with the pin mount behind it. The reverse of the brooch is w…
Created on: Thursday 5th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Creslow', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: SWYOR-94E241
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Probably the end of a copper alloy Dragonesque brooch, dating from the mid-first to late second centuries. The fragment probably represents a stylised animal head, although no details of the animal can be distinguished. The fragment is trefoil - one lobe is domed and the other two have a thin, curved rib along the centre. There is no other decoration, and the reverse is flat and undecorated. This fragment probably formed the terminal to an S-shaped brooch, with another animal head at the other terminal. The break is extremely worn. The fragment is 17.3mm long and 12.6mm wide. A simila…
Created on: Saturday 1st September 2007
Last updated: Sunday 17th January 2021
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Record ID: SWYOR-94EA00
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
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The body and one terminal of a copper alloy Dragonesque brooch, dating from the mid-first to late second centuries. The body is S-shaped and has a domed-shaped circular raised protrusion in the centre. This protrusion is bordered by four raised ribs, which taper away towards the outer parts of the S. Both ends of the body are broken; however, one end clearly joins with another fragment, which is the terminal of the brooch and shaped in the form of a stylised animal head. The terminal is trefoil - one lobe is pointed and has a raised circular dome-shaped protrusion, similar to that on …
Created on: Saturday 1st September 2007
Last updated: Sunday 17th January 2021
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Record ID: SUSS-EDB686
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy Roman brooch (43-410 AD). The fragment consists of the catchplate from the reverse of a copper alloy brooch. The catchplate would have held the pin at the base of the brooch. This fragment has a long shaft with a lozenge-shaped openwork projection at the foot that would have held the pin in place. At the upper edge, the lozenge-shape curves away from the shaft, before the outer edge angles it back towards the body of the brooch. The openwork design is two circular holes along the upper edge of the projection, with an openwork trefoil filling the lower tr…
Created on: Monday 17th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Firle', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: LIN-798C65
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Incomplete enamelled copper alloy brooch. The brooch is lozenge shaped however part of the perimeter angles are damaged. The face of the brooch bears an elaborate enamelled decoration. In the centre is a large circle containing a peacock going left, looking back over its shoulder. Both wings are visible and the feather details are depicted by curved lines. One wing is much larger than the other; the larger wing is shown on the back of the bird and the smaller one is shown directly above it. The birds head is slender and tapers along the beak. The eye is shown by a large enamelle…
Created on: Monday 24th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bardney', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: SOM-304001
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy aesica brooch of early Roman date. The brooch measures 36.7mm by 22.1mm by 8.4mm and weighs 11.5g. The brooch has been cast in two pieces. The upper part consists of hollow cylindrical wings which would have concealed the missing spring and pin, and a flat curving bow which flares and terminates in a trefoil. On the back of the central knop of the trefoil is the integral rivet which joins the upper part to the lower part. The lower part is flat and broadly triangular. On the back is the stub of the catchplate. The brooch is undecorated. A very similar brooch featur…
Created on: Tuesday 20th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Mackrell', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NMS-3017A6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Unusual Roman plate brooch, central part a horizontally set pointed oval, with central ring-and-dot containing white enamel and reserved on a blue field between eight dots, two of which retain fragments of white enamel. Both damaged ends of the brooch are sub-triangular with a white enamelled dot (enamel missing from one) on a black enamelled field, and the remains of trefoil lugs at angles. Both terminal lugs contain a blue enamelled dot, the other lugs are, with one exception, broken across the central perforation. Double pin-lug, copper alloy pin and damaged triangular catch-plate o…
Created on: Thursday 6th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wicklewood', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: HAMP-80ABB6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
An incomplete 2nd-century Roman copper-alloy equal-ended plate brooch. The brooch consists of a main circular plate with raised border, featuring a central circular perforation also with a border. At opposing ends is a trefoil protrusion, below which, on one end, is an abraded sub-triangular catchplate and, on the other, is double semi-circular pin lug with axis bar retained. Around the axis bar is hinged the remains of a pin: a rounded perforated terminal with angular area from which emerges around a quarter of the pin. On their upper surface each protrusion features three punched …
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Goodworth Clatford CP', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: ESS-4C1B73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
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Incomplete Roman (1st century) cast copper alloy lozenge plate brooch. The brooch is lozenge shaped with concave sides, each arm terminating in a trefoil. There is a central perforation that would have been used to secure a (now missing) decorative plate. The reverse has two lugs to secure the missing sprung pin, and the remains of a folded catchplate. The reverse has a mid-green patina, while the upper surface is grey-green, with an uneven surface from the missing decoration. It is 42.11mm long, 2.39mm thick, increasing to 8.18mm to include the pin lugs. It weighs 7.55 grams.
Created on: Tuesday 14th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashdon CP', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: GLO-735415
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Aesica brooch fragment length 37mm, width 25mm, thickness 16mm, weight 12.42g. A rearward facing loop behind the head would have held the spring support bar in place. A loop at the top of the head would have held the external cord for the spring. The head has a double crest down is length. The crest is flanked by two ring and dot motif at the base. The bottom corners of the head are expanded out to form globular knops. The fantail has a trefoil motif with a ring a dot in the centre. The bottom corners of the fantail are expanded out to form globular knops. The c…
Created on: Thursday 16th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wraxall', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: NLM-AB71B1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman plate brooch from 2nd century AD. A piriform plate brooch with open centre, missing top and side lugs, and broken pin. The catch plate is also incomplete. The wider, top of the half of the brooch consists of a crescent shaped area in relief with decreasing sectional height from the centre of the crescent and tapering to the plane of the brooch at the crescents ends. The ends of the crescent meet and are separated by a vertical ridge, 10.0mm in length, which runs from the open centre to a discoid lug terminal with indentation and concentric circ…
Created on: Friday 1st May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stokeham', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: SF-E67B73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman plate brooch. It is missing its pin and setting due to old breaks but is otherwise intact. The plate is flat and sub-oval or crescentic shaped in form. To the right hand side of the plate are two kidney shaped apertures, the sides of the plate curving around to meet at the centre of the outer edge where there is a projecting trefoil shaped lobe. The outer edges of each side are slightly thickened and each have a small circular perforation. At the left hand side the plate has a slightly pointed outer edge and a large central circular recess with ce…
Created on: Thursday 25th November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 14th December 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mildenhall', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: WAW-A719A3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy trumpet brooch. The head has no wings and in plan is a horizontal oval; it is decorated with a moulded design which consists of a central rib and a sub-trefoiled emblem with a central pellet. The upper edge has a trace of a decorated integral perforated headloop. On the reverse of the bow head there is a single vertical sub-oval integral lug with an incomplete central perforation. The axis bar, spring, chord and pin are all missing. In profile the brooch is an inverted 'L' shape which has three moulded horizontal ribs of varying thickness and width as decoration at…
Created on: Thursday 16th December 2010
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2011
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Record ID: ESS-70DC47
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Incomplete Romancast copper alloy Colchester derivative (Dolphin) brooch. The wings are rectangular with a shallow 'C' shaped cross section; they are decorated with vertical mouldings which alternate between being plain and beaded. The bow has a wide and pronounced rib, giving the bow a trefoil cross section. There is a worn break across the bow. The sides of the bow have two punched circles at the point it joins with the wings. The pin, lower half of the bow and foot are missing. There is the remains of silvering or tinning in the recesses of the wings and to either side of the rib o…
Created on: Monday 21st March 2011
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
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Record ID: WMID-E4F9B5
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Roman: An incomplete cast copper alloy scabbard runner, of Roman dating (1st to 4th Centuries AD). The scabbard runner is sub rectangular in plan, and irregular in section. It consists of a tapering chamfered shank, with a saltire incised on the trefoil terminal. Two short incomplete shanks are present on the reverse. It measures 60.94mm in length, 7.84mm wide and 16.71 mm thick. It weighs 8.1 grams. A similar example has been published as #515 in Allason-Jones, 2008, chapter 11. Scabbard runners of this type are fairly common in the northern provinces from the 1st Century onwar…
Created on: Wednesday 31st August 2011
Last updated: Friday 24th August 2012
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Record ID: NARC-102102
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
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Roman Bow and Fantail Brooch. The upper section of the bow is circular and is decorated with a curved trefoil shape, enclosing 4 smaller circles within it. The lower section of the bow (the fantail) is triangular, and decorated with two curved triangles. The recessed parts of the brooch, are now orange/brown in colour, suggesting the use of enamel. On the reverse of the brooch, the iron spring remains in place, but the pin is now lost.
Created on: Thursday 12th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NCL-34AD01
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy trefoil brooch of early Roman date. The brooch is sub-triangular in plan and composed of semispherical cups arranged in a trefoil fashion. A the base of each cup is a circular perforation, and the cups were probably inset with bone or coral. The underside has a central lug at the top that would have taken a simple hinged pin (missing), and there is a worn shank at the opposite end that probably served as a catchplate when complete. The evidence for a hinged pin confirms a Roman date. Similar parallels are seen in MacGregor (1976, vol II, nos 254 and 256), …
Created on: Tuesday 8th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LANCUM-895BF2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
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Incomplete cast cu-alloy trumpet brooch dating from the early Roman period, i.e. c. AD75-175. The brooch misses its spring coils, pin and most of the catch plate. The slightly bent bow and the loop which held in place the spring coils are still intact. The brooch's metal surface is very corroded, especially on top, the front and the underside of the bow. Much of the surface, however, remains intact on the head and back of the bow which are decorated with intricate enamelled decoration. Red, white (or light blue) and yellow enamel were used to fill small triangle-, tear- and eye-shaped …
Created on: Tuesday 5th August 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Boroughbridge', grid reference and parish protected.


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Record ID: DEV-117DC3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation Find awaiting validation
Copper alloy lozenge-shaped brooch with blue enamelling, probably Roman 2nd Century. The pin is missing, but the hinge and catch plate are intact. The front of the brooch is decorated with blue enamel. At the centre of the brooch, within a circle is a bird motif, legs crouching to the left, head looking back over its body to the right, and with wings in a half raised position. At the neck of the bird are three small holes, presumably where stones, or a different coloured enamel, was set. There is also a small hole for the bird's eye. To the left of the bird's feet is a small elongated …
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Friday 18th March 2011
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