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Record ID: NMS-D2C402
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
About half of the flat circular frame of an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy annular brooch, with an original diameter of c. 40mm. One break is across a neat rounded hole in the frame. This may be the pin hole, but on the reverse there is solder around the hole and it may possibly alternatively be a repair. There is also some iron corrosion on the reverse here, which could be from the pin. The frame is otherwise well preserved here, and at 6.1mm wide appears to retain its original width. The inner edge is 1.2mm thick and it tapers towards the outer edge which is 0.6mm thick. Th…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D16462
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy, probably a small piece of foot from an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. The fragment is C-shaped in cross-section, hollow on the reverse, and is broken at both ends (one break fairly fresh and granular, the other more worn). At one end, the front has a bold moulding, 4-5mm deep and flat-topped, which is divided into two by an off-centre transverse groove. The overall surviving length is 21.1mm, maximum width 12.8mm and maximum thickness (at moulding) 6.0mm. It weighs 4.93g. It seems likely that this is one of the mouldings at the top of a horse's …
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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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-D0BB0C
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 headplate is very worn and its original shape is uncertain, but it has the remains of deep U-shaped cut-outs in both its lower edge and its upper corners, forming three knobs. These may have had straight ends, as the top and one side knob each retain a straight row of crescentic stamps along their edges. On the reverse of the headplate is a large double pin bar lug, one lug incomplete and the other retaining part of an iron pin bar. There is extensive iron corrosion between the two lugs.  The bow…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D07466
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch, now in two joining parts. The head is of the 'cross potent' type, with a flat rectangular central panel c. 13 x 18mm. This has three sub-rectangular flat 'knobs' attached by narrower waists, to form a headplate in total 32.2mm wide. The surface is corroded and some is missing, but traces of double-crescent or half ring-and-dot stamps can be seen; there is a row of five on the top knob and a similar row on one side knob, each with a trace of a single groove outside the row of stamps. On the reverse of the headpla…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-99877A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval silver annular brooch, complete with silver pin. The frame of the brooch is circular, thick and flat to make a rectangular cross-section. The pin is held in a constriction, and has an open loop. There is a transverse double moulding at the junction of loop and shaft, below which the cross-section of the shaft is D-shaped or trapezoidal.  The frame is engraved on both faces with letters which read clockwise from the pin constriction. Because the pin has a clear front and reverse, it is possible to identify the front and reverse of the frame too; the…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-25921E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Brooch made from a coin of Ethelred II (978-1016), small cross type, now incomplete and in two pieces. The obverse is gilded, and the reverse has two patches of solder. The coin is an example of Aethelred's first small cross type, struck by the moneyer Godman, probably of London (GODMAN MO [?}LV[...], the L being obscured by a patch of solder). North 764, c.978-9. Dimensions: approximately 20mm diameter, weight 1.21g. Discussion: Brooches made from coins are Weetch's type 2.B. This is an unusual example, as it is more common for the reverse to be used as the…
Created on: Friday 21st April 2023
Last updated: Monday 19th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-6E0D9C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy late Iron Age or early Roman Langton Down brooch, with the outer ends of the spring, most of the pin, the lower part of the bow and all of the catchplate missing. The wings consist of a thin undecorated sheet cylinder with a seam along the reverse and a slot in the centre for the copper-alloy circular-section pin. The broad bow springs from the centre of the wings, with a faint curved ridge running round the top and grazing the edge of the pin slot. The bow is thin and C-shaped in cross-section, with remains of very worn vertic…
Created on: Friday 31st March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-078751
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval silver annular brooch. The frame is small, circular and a low D-shape in cross-section, with a constriction for the pin. It is now bent, broken across the constriction, and the pin is missing. The frame is decorated on the convex front with engraved and stamped decoration; held with the constriction at the top and reading anti-clockwise, the engraving consists of a transverse groove, then four saltires, then a half-saltire ending in a D-shaped recess. The lozenges and triangles thus formed are filled with triangular and sub-triangular punchmarks which se…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-070E37
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of medieval silver annular brooch, with a slim circular-section frame interrupted by two small irregular bosses both decorated with annulet stamps giving a 'brambled' effect. Both breaks are immediately after the boss and both are granular and unworn. The frame is now bent so that it is difficult to suggest an original diameter. Dimensions: Length of fragment, 25mm. Diameter of frame between bosses, 1.8mm. Thickness of bosses, 3-4mm. Weight 0.9g. Discussion: This type of annular brooch, with a circular wire frame interrupted by normally four bramble…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-CD6871
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Terminal from the foot of an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, now very corroded and battered about. It is broken (worn break) across some transverse grooves, and on the reverse here a line of a catchplate can be seen as a very slight raised and corroded line in the otherwise smooth brown patina. Below the grooves are two broad transverse mouldings, and then comes the simple horse-head terminal. The front of this is covered in corrosion bubbles, and very little detail can be seen, but it appears to taper slightly from where the eyes would have been, then flare out again to slim point…
Created on: Monday 27th February 2023
Last updated: Thursday 13th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-38F2DE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Tiny silver medieval annular brooch. It has an almost circular, D-section frame with a constriction for the silver pin. Opposite this is a pin rest, and both pin constriction and pin rest are flanked by animal heads pointing towards them, perhaps intended as biting at them. Each of the four animal heads has relief ears, eyes made from annulet punches, and nostrils made from single dots. If the pin constriction is held at 12 o'clock, then at 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock is a slightly expanded raised oval zone of oblique grooves wit…
Created on: Monday 20th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 18th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7DA399
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy medieval annular brooch, now very corroded and with much of its surface missing. The frame is 30.1mm in diameter, and was originally rectangular in cross-section, with rounded corners; where it survives best the frame measures 4.7mm wide and 3.0mm thick. It is undecorated, but has a pin constriction 3.3mm wide and a short, V-shaped nick forming a pin rest opposite this. The pin does not survive. It weighs 5.2g. It is fairly similar in proportions to a decorated copper-alloy annular brooch found in a context of c. 1270-1350 in London (Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1313).
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-7D0591
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Iron Age brooch made from a single piece of copper alloy. The spring is large, with two coils on either side of the pin joined by an external chord running across the top of the spring. About half of the pin is missing, with a fairly fresh break across an oval cross-section. The bow flattens and widens from the spring to a maximum of 11mm wide, then tapers with straight edges to the foot. The upper part of the bow is flat, decorated with two median longitudinal ridges and a border groove, worn away over much of one edge, which all run down to a central D-section area whi…
Created on: Monday 30th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-EBCACA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded copper-alloy Roman plate brooch of dished cone type, with white-metal coating on the reverse. Originally circular, all edges are now broken and worn. It has concentric decoration around a concave-sided cone in the centre, which is broken or badly worn on top so that any detail is now lost. The lower part of the central cone is more straight-sided, and around it is a concave dished ring. Beyond this is a circular ridge, and then a flat outer zone which is decorated with U-shaped or crescentic stamps, the points outermost. Apart from the top of the central cone, all parts of …
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E9DBAE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early-medieval copper-alloy disc brooch of Kershaw's East Anglian Series, type I. It is flat and circular, now missing part of the edge, but with enough surviving to give a diameter of 28.2mm. It has cast relief decoration of a central sunken circle, surrounded by a raised double-strand concave-sided lozenge, with each of the four corners extending to form a loose clockwise knot of double-strand interlace. There is a slight raised rim around the surviving edge. On the reverse are the stubs of a double lug, perpendicular to the edge of the brooch, which formed t…
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-84FA3A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman headstud brooch, now in poor condition having lost all its surface back to bare metal. The rectangular swept-back wings each retain a patch of blue enamel at their ends and a patch of red enamel further forward. On the reverse, the head is deeply hollowed in the centre, and has a long (but spindly) pierced lug or loop to hold the axis bar or tube around which the spring was coiled. On top of the head is a crest with a central hole that has worn through to the exterior, which would originally have held the chord of the spring. At the end of this, at the top of the…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-8188B9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy Roman plate brooch of umbonate or domed boss type. The circular boss has a empty sunken dot in the centre, surrounded by a single ring of 12 small triangular champlevé cells (apex inwards) which are inlaid alternately with red and with blue enamel. These cover the dome, and around it is a deep, wide groove, then a flat ring forming a border which now has a fragmentary worn edge. Two flat triangular projections from this border survive, one wide and shallow with the double hinge lug on the reverse and the other (longer and more tri…
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-5A6F3E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy cruciform brooch of Martin (2015) type 1, narrow in shape but large and chunky. The headplate is small, almost square and undecorated, without wings and with sharply right-angled side edges giving a rectangular cross-section 3.4mm thick. Above is a large full-round integral top knob, with a circular base decorated with a circumferential groove, a concave waist above, and then a faceted dome. This has a lower half with eight triangular facets, alternately apex-up and apex-down, and an upper half that is a square-based pyramid. On the reverse of the headplate is a singl…
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 24th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6E9398
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small gold annular brooch with pin constriction and projecting clasped hands. The circular frame is mainly triangular in cross-section, but this is interrupted by the pin constriction at 12 o'clock, the clasped hands at 3 o'clock, and two quatrefoil flower bosses at 6 o'clock and 9 o'clock. The pin constriction has a tiny transverse ridge to either side. The clasped hands have the thumbs uppermost, and the fingers above the thumbs are very slightly separated, but not apparently enough to hold something like a bead. The space in between has some hard so…
Created on: Friday 30th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-AD8C38
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of late Iron Age or early Roman copper-alloy brooch, probably a Nauheim or Nauheim derivative. It consists of a flat, triangular bow, now a little bent, tapering from 7.5mm wide at the top with straight sides to a pointed tip with a tiny upturned bump. There is a groove down the centre and either edge; all the grooves peter out before the end of the brooch, and the side grooves have hints of ribbing or beading or punched decoration. Although the foot of the brooch appears complete, as there is absolutely no hint of a catchplate on the smooth reverse, it may be broken and …
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-075348
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small gold annular brooch of medieval date, with inscription. The frame is circular with a triangular cross-section, flat and undecorated on the reverse. The inner angle of the front  is decorated with a groove within which is a line of fine, neat beading; under a lens it can be seen that this has been stamped, as each bead is surrounded by a slight upstanding circle. The outer angle has an inscription in seriffed capitals which is not immediately readable, and is discussed below. The frame is interrupted by a constriction for the pin. The gold pin survives…
Created on: Tuesday 13th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E38C5E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy late Iron Age or Roman bow brooch, consisting of the very end of the foot only, with part of a perforated catchplate. The rounded-section bow is very narrow at just 2.4mm wide. On the reverse, the catchplate could be described as perforated (or pierced) or framed, in that the (now incomplete) triangular perforation neatly follows the line of the edge of the catchplate. One side is turned over to the left (when viewing the brooch from the reverse). The breaks are worn. The surviving length of the bow is 10.7mm, less than that of the catchplate; th…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E36337
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy late Iron Age or Roman bow brooch, consisting of the foot only. The D-section bow is very narrow but fairly even in width, tapering from 2.9mm wide and 1.7mm thick at the break to 2.2mm wide at the bottom. On the reverse is a pierced or perforated catchplate, consisting of a triangle springing from one edge of the bow, with the end turned over to the left (when viewing the brooch from the reverse) and a slot made at the curve to hold the end of the pin. It has a lozenge-shaped perforation, less neatly shaped than the rest of the brooch, The break…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E31D90
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and top of bow from a copper-alloy Roman brooch of Langton Down type, dating to c. 25-c. 60 AD. The head is formed from a thin sheet cylinder, complete on the left side (looking from the front) but the front missing on the right. There is no trace of decoration on the front of the head, but a seam can just about be seen along the reverse, with the slot for the pin in the centre. The inside of the head is filled with hard corrosion products, probably from an iron spring bar. The D-section bow tapers from 11.2mm wide at the top to 7.2mm wide at the broken end. It has a rid…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E0F8D8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy Roman bow brooch, consisting of the foot only. The bow is fairly even in width, tapering from 4.2mm at the break to 3.6mm wide at the bottom; the surviving length is 19.7mm. It is roughly triangular in cross-section with a central longitudinal rib. On the reverse is a pierced or perforated catchplate, consisting of a triangle springing from the centre of the bow, with the end turned over to the left (when viewing the brooch from the reverse). It has two circular perforations, one above the other, the lower one very tiny. This is likely to be a Colche…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E0BBDF
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Largely complete copper-alloy Colchester one-piece brooch of late Iron Age to early Roman date (c. 20-c. 65 AD). The bow is oval in cross-section, with no decoration surviving. At the top are a pair of rectangular, flat-section wings, with a long forward-facing hook above. The hook still retains the chord of the spring, half of which survives, with three coils on the right (as you look at the reverse). The left-hand end of the spring, and the pin, are missing along with any axis bar. The bow tapers downwards towards a missing foot (fairly old break), with a stub of catchplate on t…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-E05328
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bow of a worn copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon brooch, probably a cruciform but alternatively perhaps a small-long brooch, dating to c. 450-550 AD.  It measures 21.0mm long, weighs 5.2g, and tapers from 11.0mm in the centre to 10.0mm wide at one end and 9.2mm wide at the other. The wider end has a very short flat panel that is probably also the broken springing of the bow, and the narrower end has a longer flat panel that is decorated with three transverse grooves. In between, the body of the bow is arched so that it is 9.1mm thick. It has a flat band down the centre…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-DF6845
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of the head of a small copper-alloy cruciform brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date, probably of Martin's type 2 (c. 475 to c. 550 AD). A small fragment of headplate survives, with part of a central raised panel; no decoration survives. It has an integrally cast half-round top knob, now rather worn, with a base that projects in front of the headplate and is decorated with two grooves. Above this is a broad waist, then a high, rounded dome (rather more than half round) with a groove around the bottom. On the reverse of the headplate is a single pin bar lug. The breaks are quite worn…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-DF3D67
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head of tiny cruciform or small-long brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date (c. 450-550 AD), made from copper alloy. The headplate is rectangular (14 x 11mm), and has a raised trapezoidal panel in the centre which flares from the top to the bottom. This panel is decorated with a vertical row of three deeply drilled dots which each have a faint ring around them. Three integrally cast knobs survive around the headplate, all half-round, narrow, tapering and undecorated. The top knob is slightly larger than the side knobs, and has a raised ridge at its junction with the headplate. The bow is bro…
Created on: Tuesday 30th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A4D828
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy Roman brooch of headstud type, now bent and very worn, of late 1st- or 2nd-century date. The rectangular-section wings are short and stubby, and taper to worn, broken ends; they have some vertical grooved or stepped decoration on the front, and a slim tube on the reverse which retains the copper-alloy axis bar. A fragment of copper-alloy pin loop survives in an off-centre slot. On top of the wings is a long rectangular moulding, probably the worn remains of a chain loop, and below this the bow emerges, rectangular in cross-section at first but quickly tapering and ro…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A48FB5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Foot from a copper-alloy Roman brooch, 33.0mm long. It is pointed-oval in cross-section, and tapers from 6.1mm wide and 2.9mm thick at the break (neither worn nor very fresh) to 3.5mm wide just above the bottom, and then tapers more steeply to a point. The front is decorated with three longitudinal grooves, one in the centre (which peters out about two-thirds of the way down) and one at either edge. On the reverse, at the bottom, is a solid triangular plate, the remains of the catchplate; the curled-over return is missing, but what survives brings the total thickness up to 8.…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-11573E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper-alloy annular brooch with circular frame 26mm in diameter. The frame is rectangular in cross-section, 3.1mm thick and 4.3mm wide, and is decorated on the front with a pseudo-inscription. This is divided into alternating panels with geometric grooves resembling lettering, and eight zones of fine rocker-arm engraving.  There is a narrow pin constriction in one rocker-arm panel, in which a slender copper-alloy pin survives complete. It has a loop with butt joint at the end opposite the shaft, and a tapering D-section shaft. There is a ridged collar at the juncti…
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-0FDBA5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of foot from a Roman brooch, all breaks worn. The fragment is flat and triangular, with a straight lower edge, and apparently undecorated. It flares from a very narrow apex (2.3mm wide) to a straight foot 12.5mm wide and 0.9mm thick. On the reverse is a fragmentary catchplate that runs the full 20.2mm length of the fragment, but is not in the centre of the width, suggesting that the current shape may not bear much relationship to the original. The catchplate preserves part of a circular perforation in the centre measuring c. 1.7mm in diameter. This has a be…
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 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-0550C9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and top of bow from a copper-alloy Roman brooch of Polden Hill type; not enough survives to allocate a Mackreth sub-type. What remains is very abraded, but it is possible to see that the wings are cylindrical, open at the reverse to hold a copper-alloy spring. The spring is wrapped around a copper-alloy axis bar which passes through a hole in a plate at the end of each wing; the chord of the spring appears to pass through a pierced ridge on the top of the head. This ridge extends down onto the D-section bow, which is fairly flat and soon ends in a very worn break. T…
Created on: Monday 20th June 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-537B2E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver annular brooch, complete with gilded silver pin. Although the brooch is small, the slightly domed frame is wide, with an inner circular aperture and an outer edge shaped into eight points with concave curves between them. The front is covered with relief decoration consisting of a beaded ridge around the inner edge, and plant decoration and pellets filling the rest of the space. Eight stems spring from the central beading and run radially towards the points; they bifurcate near the top, each half curling outwards and downwards to end in an oval flower or frui…
Created on: Friday 6th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-F56E67
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Two gilded-silver plates from an annular brooch frame. The frame was made from silver wire, and the plates are both roughly square or lozengiform. The larger plate has a short length of frame still soldered to the reverse, consisting of a curve of slim circular-section silver wire running between opposite corners. The smaller plate has a scar from a similar soldered-on piece of frame. Both plates have identical decoration on the front, of four raised lines crossing to form an eight-point star. The lines are not evenly spaced and the effect is of a cross…
Created on: Monday 14th March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B821E8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy headstud brooch of Roman date, with hinged pin and enamel inlay. It is now corroded, but the details are reasonably clear. The wings are short and rectangular; they are worn and incomplete, but two vertical (transverse) ridges remain on the right-hand wing as viewed from the front. On the reverse of the wings there is a tube holding a copper-alloy axis bar, and the stub of a copper-alloy pin hinges in a slot in the centre of the tube. On top of the head is a circular chain loop, now broken. The bow tapers smoothly to the bottom, where there is a footknob. At the top…
Created on: Tuesday 15th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 28th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D4A253
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Foot of an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch, now very worn. The fragment is broken at the bottom of the bow (very worn break) and consists of the flat panel and terminal. The flat panel is 8.1mm at the top and tapers slightly downwards. It has narrow bevelled edges and the remains of a high polish, but no discernable decoration except for a fine transverse groove at the top, at the junction with the missing bow. On the reverse is a catchplate, now missing its curl but set slightly to the right (as viewed from the reverse) to allow for a left-hand curl. There is iron co…
Created on: Friday 4th February 2022
Last updated: Monday 28th February 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-01ABE1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver coin brooch, made from a gros tournois of Floris V, Count of Holland, 1256-96; the coin was struck between 1266 and 1296.  The front of the brooch has been gilded, with extensive traces surviving especially in the centre. There is no trace of gilding to the rear, and this is unlikely to have been gilded originally. There is some delamination of the silver, with areas of the edge flaking off on both faces. There is a small part of the pin mechanism surviving, made of circular-section wire, soldered to the rear; to either side of this surviving part …
Created on: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Erpingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7093CB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy brooch with traces of partial white-metal coating, probably tinning. The brooch is in the shape of a cross, with the angles between the arms almost circular and the end of each arm bifurcated with a central fork. Each arm is decorated with a flat-topped ridge along the centre and around either edge, and these areas are tinned. In between, each arm has decoration of a pair of transversely ribbed ridges. Finally, running out from the centre to meet the cut-outs between the arms are four pairs of ridges each separated by a groove and forming the arms of a diago…
Created on: Thursday 6th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-1C1681
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy enamelled Roman brooch of British Plate type, specifically a Domed Boss or umbonate broch (Mackreth 2011, Plate 6.a). It is broadly lozenge-shaped, with a flat knop at each corner and a central circular dome that fills most of the space. One knop is larger, round-ended and pierced at the end with a large (mm diameter) circular hole; on the reverse of this knop, below the hole, is a double pin lug pierced to take a copper-alloy bar on which the stub of a copper-alloy pin hinges. The opposite knop is much smaller, and on the reverse of this is a squashed catchplate…
Created on: Thursday 9th December 2021
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-421951
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy side knob from a late Roman crossbow brooch. It is globular, with a flattened area on the end with a small projecting boss which appears to be incomplete. When viewed from the end the knob is oval in section,10.4 x 9.5mm, and 7.6mm long without the boss. There is a groove at the junction of the knob and the rectangular-section wing, then there is a slight moulding; beyond this is a small stub of surviving wing which measures 5.3 x 3.8mm at the broken end. Much more of one wider face is missing than the other, showing that the rest of the wing was hollow; it is possib…
Created on: Friday 29th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-2D5A23
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Abraded and worn frame from a copper-alloy medieval annular brooch. It is made from flat sheet, square externally, perhaps originally with rounded corners, and circular internally; all edges are worn. A circular pin hole in the centre of one side (at the frame's narrowest point) has broken through to the external edge. There is decoration on the upper face, with a shallow groove surrounding the internal edge. Each corner is marked off by a similar curving groove, and filled inside with a series of neat dots. No pin survives. Surviving width 17.25mm, length (parallel to lin…
Created on: Thursday 28th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-0EE53D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman 'chatelaine' brooch, made from copper alloy and enamelled. On the reverse are the remains of a short pin lug and a longer catchplate, allowing the brooch to be described the right way up with (unusually) the pin lug at the bottom. The centre is circular and domed, hollow on the reverse. This has a small central boss with six triangular cells around it, with traces of decayed enamel which may originally have been red. Between these cells there is more enamel, now a dark green colour. A ridge forms the edge of the domed centre, with a deep groove outside it and th…
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-3CDCC4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rectangular gilded copper-alloy object, probably a brooch, with relief decoration of a Mammen-style bird. It is flat and slightly bent, with much of one edge missing. The front of the object has a lot of well-preserved gilding. The edge has a double-ridged frame, both ridges retaining some beading in places. Within this border is a single bird in profile, the body made from an outer beaded border filled with fine transverse ribbing, the leg similar but without the beaded border, and the tendril-like wings and tail made from grooves outlined with beading. The bird has its head to…
Created on: Tuesday 17th November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 19th November 2020
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Record ID: NMS-E845D8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Medieval annular brooch, made from thin silver sheet, now slightly bent.. Circular, with wide frame on a slight convex angle, decorated with nine oblique, slightly curving rows of addorsed punched triangles (also called interrupted rocker-arm). This decoration is interrupted by a circular pin hole which is flanked by a transverse row of similar punchmarks to either side. A silver sheet pin survives in the hole, with an open loop and no decoration. It is tilted at the tip to sit neatly on the frame. The reverse of the frame is concave and undecorated. Dimensions: Diam…
Created on: Friday 13th November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weeting', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-163D74
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy full-round side knob from a cruciform brooch, with full-length iron pin bar passing through it. The dome is slightly more than hemispherical, with the widest point just above a pair of neat fine grooves around the base of the dome. A concave narrowed waist is below, with a minimum diameter of 5.5mm. Below this is a base 3mm deep, decorated around its circumference with three slightly wider and more carelessly applied grooves, which here appear lathe-turned. A tab projects from the base; this is curved in cross-section and has an incomplete lower edge. Behind the tab are t…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 31st August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-14FDBB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
About half of a flat circular frame, decorated on one face, probably an incomplete annular brooch. It is made from thin sheet, 0.6mm thick and 26.5mm in diameter, with a 12.5mm circular hole in the centre. The external edge is fragmentary, but appears to have had a series of small projections spaced about 2mm apart. The frame is decorated with a neat compass-drawn double-strand border around a series of oblique grooves forming a zig-zag (or triangles with the apexes outwards). The lines do not quite meet at the apexes of the triangles. Four of the triangles survive of a probable origi…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-04E2E1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a chunky cast copper-alloy annular brooch (worn breaks). A bit less than a quarter of the circular frame survives, with two tall collets that occupy the whole width of the frame. Between the collets, the frame is slightly domed, a maximum of 3.5mm thick and 5.5mm wide; there is a relatively groove around the outside edge of the frame. The collets are rectangular in cross-section, and taper upwards to a top with a hollow oval cell with traces of white adhesive or cement; there were probably about eight of them originally. The collets are 8.0 and 8.5mm tall including the thi…
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2020
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2021
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Record ID: NMS-EF4376
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Brooch made from a coin, gilded on both faces. The coin is a gros tournois of Louis IX of France, issued 1266-70, and the edge is now bent backwards in two places. Obverse: Cross pattee in the centre surrounded by the legend in two rows. Outer row reads: + BNDICTV: SIT: NOME: DHI: nRI: DEI: IhV [:] XPI (the capital Ns are horizontally barred, and the stops are a vertical line of three pellets). Inner row reads + LVDOVICVS. REX. Reverse: At centre the Chatel Tournois, surrounded by the legend + TVRONVS . [CI]VIS, which is in turn surrounded by twelve fleurs-de-li…
Created on: Tuesday 20th October 2020
Last updated: Monday 19th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-0858E4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy lozengiform plate brooch. It has a central cell measuring c. 12mm x 9mm which may once have held an enamel, glass or gem inset. Around this is a tall collar, then two descending steps, the top one decorated with fine transverse nicks. A flatter border completes the concentric lozenges around the central setting; this is also decorated with fine transverse or oblique nicks, but is now partly missing. Two corners survive, one at one end and one at one side, both with flat circular lobes each decorated with a pair of concentric rings.  The reverse of the brooch has a ci…
Created on: Friday 9th October 2020
Last updated: Thursday 28th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B63A45
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of gilded silver wide equal-arm brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date. It is thick, flat and roughly triangular, with one long straight edge, a complete corner, and the other original edge having a slight S curve which runs down to a tiny fragment of forward-projecting bow. This surviving part represents about half of the headplate of the brooch, and its front is decorated with a deeply engraved pattern which partly consists of a Greek key pattern, an angular interlace of interlocking squares. Gilding survives in the grooves. As the o…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd September 2020
Last updated: Thursday 28th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B32D47
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Tiny gold annular brooch with circular frame. Most of the frame is circular in cross-section, but it is interrupted by a pin constriction and by four equally spaced collars which encircle the frame and which are decorated all around with relief pellets made using an annulet punch; these are usually known as 'brambled' bosses. Pin missing. Dimensions: Maximum diameter of brooch (with bosses) 16.0mm. Diameter of frame without bosses,14.0mm. Thickness of brooch (across bosses) 2.9mm. Diameter of cross-section of frame, 1.2mm. weight 1.12g. Discussion: Brooches of t…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd September 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 28th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-78A5FE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small medieval copper-alloy annular brooch with copper-alloy pin surviving. The frame is circular, 17.5mm in diameter and 2.6mm wide, and broadly triangular in cross-section, with a slightly angled reverse and faceted front. It has a pin constriction, and a grooved pin rest opposite. The two facets on the front are interrupted by six sub-square mouldings, two flanking the pin constriction and therefore close together, and the other four evenly spaced to either side of the pin. Each one has raised decoration of a six-pointed star made from three lines crossing. There is a silvery white…
Created on: Tuesday 8th September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-65F5C3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy Colchester one-piece brooch of late Iron Age or early Roman date, now worn, bent and incomplete. One wing survives apparently intact; it is short, and rectangular in cross-section. The other is missing (worn break). The right-hand side of the spring survives (viewed from the reverse) with three coils before the chord, which passes under the forward-facing hook. The other side of the spring is missing along with any axis bar. The bow starts at the top with a wide oval cross-section (6mm wide and 3mm thick); it appears to be undecorated. It tapers smoothly to a circula…
Created on: Monday 7th September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-6553F3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy disc brooch of Kershaw's East Anglian series, of late early-medieval date. It is flat and was originally circular, now 28.9mm in diameter but very worn. An area is missing from the edge, with a worn right-angled break. The brooch is decorated with the characteristic ornament of a central sunken circle surrounded by a raised double-strand concave-sided lozenge, the corners of which are extended into double-strand ribbons which are loosely knotted. The ends of each strand curl to give a clockwise feel to the ornament. On the reverse is a broken pin lug, para…
Created on: Monday 7th September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-11712B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small and slender copper-alloy Roman brooch of Colchester derivative hinged type. The wings are cylindrical, tapering very gently to 4mm in diameter at the ends; they are bent over an iron axis bar with a slot in the centre for a missing pin. The wings are decorated on the front with three narrow transverse grooves on the outer halves. The slender D-section bow has a flattened area down its highest point, with a central longitudinal ridge; these elements peter out at the top, just below the slot, and about halfway down the bow. On the reverse, the lowest part of the bow has the …
Created on: Thursday 3rd September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-6696CA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Almost-complete small copper-alloy Roman brooch, of Colchester derivative hinged type. The tubular wings are crimped over to hold the iron axis bar, with a seam down the reverse and a slot in the centre where a tiny stub of copper-alloy pin survives. The wings are decorated on the front with transverse ribbing, each wing having two broad flutes alternating with three narrower grooves. The bow springs from the centre of the wings and tapers smoothly to the foot. The top half of the bow is decorated. At the very top there is a pair of central longitudinal grooves, with an oblique groove …
Created on: Wednesday 26th August 2020
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-665758
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy Roman brooch of Harlow type, missing the lower part of the bow and the foot. The wings are semi-cylindrical in cross-section, open at the reverse to take the spring, with a central lug which is pierced twice. The lug is broken across the lower hole (which would have held the axis bar); the upper hole retains a fragment of copper-alloy wire representing the chord of the spring. A diagonal groove can just be seen on the front of one wing, running from the top of the bow downwards and outwards, but any other decoration is obscured by corrosion. The breaks on the he…
Created on: Wednesday 26th August 2020
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E83F16
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy brooch of 'cogwheel' type. It is circular and openwork, 30.2mm in diameter, and has a central convex lozenge surrounded by a groove. Beyond the groove are four slightly curved relief lines, one along each side of the lozenge, with each line ending in a flat disc. There are thus two flat discs at either corner of the lozenge, forming a cross shape. The ends of the cross are joined by a ring of copper alloy, leaving four roughly D-shaped holes in the brooch. A groove runs around the centre of the outer ring, and the exterior is shaped into 18 teeth, small rectangular projec…
Created on: Thursday 20th August 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-3FDFEB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver medieval annular brooch with pin. The frame is circular, D-shaped in cross-section, and decorated in the shape of two wyverns in profile. The heads meet at a pin constriction, and have open jaws, long ridges for eyes, and round ears. Behind the heads are ridged shoulders which extend down to form forelegs; these bend forwards at an elbow and end in slightly rounded paws.Behind the shoulders are small wings, decorated with longitudinal grooves, which lie flat along the animals' backs. Beneath the wings, the bodies are decorated wit…
Created on: Thursday 7th May 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 30th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-340E02
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Headplate, top knob and fragment of bow from a small early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. The headplate consists of a central rectangular panel which is raised slightly above the wings; the panel is 10.3mm wide at the top and 10.9mm wide at the bottom. The wings are incomplete, missing three of the four corners and most of their long edges. The surviving corner suggests that the wings may have flared outwards, with a concave curve; the surviving area of edge suggests that the wings were 7mm wide and the side knobs were made separately. There is no decoration on either central panel or …
Created on: Thursday 19th March 2020
Last updated: Monday 4th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-B72619
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and upper bow of a copper-alloy Roman brooch, of Colchester derivative hinged type. The wings are tubular, bent over to enclose a copper-alloy axis bar and butted together at the back; they have a slot in the centre for the missing pin.  Decoration on the wings is hard to see, as one has lost its end and the other has corrosion bubbles, but may have a transverse broad groove or flute towards the end. This wing is 12mm long, and 4mm in diameter as it leaves the bow, tapering to perhaps 2mm diameter at the end. The bow is similarly small and …
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-8D6673
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy flat disc brooch of Kershaw's East Anglian Series, late 9th or 10th century. A little less than half of the brooch survives, with half of the central recessed circle, within a double-strand lozenge whose corners are extended into loose double-strand knots. The decoration is corroded and worn. On the reverse is a lug parallel to the edge (perpendicular to the line of the pin); this is shaped like a thorn, with one edge vertical and the other sloping, then both curling over to a point. It is probably the catchplate rather than the pin lug. This is a small e…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-8CCFAE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy relief-decorated fragment cast in one piece, probably from an early Anglo-Saxon florid cruciform brooch. One end is narrower and thicker, circular in shape (13mm diameter) and D-shaped in cross-section with a flat reverse. The object then flares and flattens to an oval area 3.6mm thick, with relief Style I decoration, now very worn, depicting a human face. Two pellet eyes can be seen within grooved rings. Above them is a ridged brow which continues between the eyes as a narrow ridge, then flares out into a wide rectangular nose. To either end of the nose is an upward-curl…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8C4C7D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large and heavy cast copper-alloy Roman brooch, of Hod Hill type. It is missing the head (patinated but not worn break) and some of the catchplate but is otherwise complete. The surviving part of the bow consists of a rectangular panel 23mm long, which tapers slightly downwards from 14mm wide at the top to 10.5mm wide at the bottom. It is decorated with a central vertical line and at least five horizontal or slightly sloping lines to either side (the slope is in a variety of directions). These lines are inlaid in places with a shiny grey material, either decomposed niello or silv…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 2nd July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-F7B35C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy brooch of late early-medieval date, of Kershaw's East Anglian Series. It was originally flat and circular, but now all of the edges are missing and the brooch is corroded. The relief decoration is unworn, and consists of a central double-strand concave-sided lozenge, with a central sunken circle; each corner is extended to form double-strand interlace of loose knots which wrap underneath the lozenge's corners. On the reverse is an incomplete transverse pin lug, broken across the perforation, and a stub of catchplate. The surviving diameter parallel to thes…
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-65AB83
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Tiny partly gilded silver insect brooch of Roman date. The brooch is flat and sub-triangular, and represents an insect (perhaps a fly or cicada) seen from above. The apex is shaped into a three-dimensional head, globular with a slightly raised large circular eye to either side. The triangular space between the eyes is gilded but the eyes are apparently not. Behind the head is a ridged collar, and then the wings and body form the rest of the triangle. Each wing is flat and triangular, the apex towards the head; the wings are gilded and covered with rows of dots which follo…
Created on: Wednesday 26th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 15th December 2020
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Record ID: NMS-BB9D8E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper-alloy brooch of back-turned animal type, Weetch type 1, dating to the 10th century. It is now bent, but otherwise in relatively good unworn condition, albeit with the rough green-brown corroded surface most of these brooches share. Around the edge is a narrow undecorated rim, then a ring of probably 28 rectangular or trapezoidal pellets or bosses (perhaps two are obscured by the bend). Within this is the animal in relief, seen in profile facing left with its head turned backwards. The head is trapezoidal, with an open mouth but no added eye and no obvious ear; it …
Created on: Tuesday 18th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-AC26F4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy zoomorphic or horse-head terminal from an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch of Martin's type 3, late 5th or early 6th century AD. It is broken just above three moulded ridges that separate it from the rest of the foot (worn break). There is a short transversely rounded brow beneath these mouldings, then the head becomes more trapezoidal in cross-section and here the large pellet eyes are set, right on the edge of the brooch. Below these the nose flattens and softens to become more rounded again in cross-section, although this may be the result of wear. The nose tapers an…
Created on: Monday 17th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-ABAE64
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy annular brooch of 13th- or 14th-century date, now very worn. The frame is sub-circular or sub-hexagonal, 24mm between corners and 22mm between edges, originally set with two stones at opposite corners. The cells for the settings are circular and both have traces of white adhesive or cement; the base of one has worn so much that it has perforated through to the reverse. These cells are not raised above the frame but rather sunk into it, so are not really collets. There is a constriction on which the pin would have swivelled, exactly halfway between the settings. The r…
Created on: Monday 17th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-17FFFC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy Roman brooch. Flat and probably originally circular, it is now oval, It is decorated with what at first sight appear to be ring-and-dot motifs, but which are actually blind-drilled depressions with a small deep centre and two distinct steps of larger shallower concentric circles. There are four of these motifs, set unevenly; one almost in front of the pin lugs, another close by on the other side of the lugs, but the other two more widely spaced and two-thirds of the way to the catchplate. All are near what are now the edges, although no part of the origina…
Created on: Monday 10th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-14CFAA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. It is missing part of the headplate, side knobs, and the terminal of the foot. The surface is quite corroded and the breaks all appear old and worn. The small top knob is cast in one piece with the headplate. It is oval in cross-section, only 6mm wide and 5mm thick. It was probably originally full-round but flattened, and is now worn. It has a deep waist so that the entire knob is relatively long. Below the waist is a half-round base which projects forwards from the flat headplate; the base is 5mm from front to back. The headpla…
Created on: Monday 10th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D40525
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small Hod Hill brooch of Roman date, c. 43-70 AD. Most of the head is missing but the base of the central slot for the pin can be seen. Below this the upper bow has a single transverse (horizontal) ridge between two broad grooves or flutes, with traces of white-metal coating in the upper one. The centre of the bow has longitudinal (vertical) ridges and broad grooves; three ridges survive with the stubs of side knobs beyond. There is more white-metal coating here. The lower bow has four transverse ridges with flutes between before ending in a footknob. On the reverse of the lower bow a…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-843DE0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman brooch of Colchester derivative type. It is either a Polden Hill or a Rearhook, but it is missing the ends of the wings (which define a Polden Hill) and it is also missing any rear-facing hook in the centre of the wings. All breaks are worn. The wings are semi-cylindrical in cross-section, open at the reverse. The ends are missing, but a transverse moulding or ridge survives running across each wing at its junction with the bow. This moulding is delicately ribbed with tiny grooves running across the moulding and survives well on either side. There is little to no…
Created on: Monday 3rd February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-41DBB5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Roman brooch of Mackreth's Aesica rearhook type, and Hattatt's reversed fantail type. The wings are semi-cylindrical, open at the back where there is a strip of dark grey patina, possibly solder, but also seen on other areas of the brooch. The wings are incomplete but one oblique groove can be seen on the left-hand wing (when viewed from the front). There is a stub of rear-facing hook on the top. The upper bow has two main facets with a central arris, and two smaller side facets that make the cross-section essentially pentagonal. Again almost no decoration survives apart f…
Created on: Friday 31st January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-02A495
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, part of the foot. The upper break is patinated but relatively unworn. It occurs at the top of the catchplate, on the reverse, but any moulding on the front at the junction of bow and foot is missing. The whole of the fragment has a marked curve from side to side and is hollow on the reverse, so C-shaped in cross-section. The rest of the flat panel consists of an area about 13mm long which is decorated down each edge with a row of worn tiny double-crescent stamps, with the open ends of the crescents towards the edge. This area ends w…
Created on: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-993DA5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy Roman brooch of Harlow type, head and upper bow only. The wings are semi-cylindrical, open at the back, and undecorated. In the centre of the reverse of the wings is a lug, pierced above for the chord and below for the axis bar. The copper-alloy axis bar and spring both survive, together with part of the chord, made from copper-alloy wire of a slightly different colour to the rest of the brooch. When viewed from the reverse, there are three-and-a-half coils to the left of the lug and four-and-a-half to the right. The turns to the chord are both missing, but th…
Created on: Thursday 23rd January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-1AE62F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
About half of a copper-alloy ansate brooch of early-medieval date, Weetch's type II, with circular terminals. One terminal survives, with a little missing, and about half the bow; the breaks are slightly worn. The terminal is flat and sub-circular, 17mm across, and decorated with four pointed-oval, V-section depressions forming a cross. Four further similar depressions are placed between the ends of the cross arms to form a lozenge, and an edge of the terminal has broken away along one of these grooves. The bow is 11mm wide and fairly flat with a slight arris in the centre. …
Created on: Friday 17th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-079CAA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete plate brooch which imitates the sole of a shoe or sandal. One half survives, the toe end, with the pin lug on the reverse. It is pointed rather than rounded at the end and has no loop. Just in from the edge is a border groove, and there may be two very tiny stamped annulets set evenly across the centre, but corrosion makes it hard to be certain. It does not appear to be recessed enough in the centre to have been enamelled. On the reverse, what seems to be a single pin lug survives, broken through the off-centre circular perforation. The pin lug is now a slim, long, low…
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Sunday 17th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C92EE6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of large but very corroded Roman brooch, made from copper alloy. Because the breaks are worn and there is no decoration, it is hard to tell what type it is. The head is largely missing, but it has a large stub on the reverse which looks more like the remains of a single central lug (as on, for example, a trumpet brooch of Mackreth's type 1) than a rear-facing hook. It is possible that semi-cylindrical wings may have broken away, or that a trumpet-like head has broken away. The bow is triangular in cross-section, narrow and tall with a steep angle and prominent arris. There is…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-C75260
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and worn copper-alloy Roman brooch of Colchester derivative rearhook type. The wings are semi-cylindrical, open at the reverse for the spring, In the centre at the top is the stub of a rear-facing hook, and below this on the reverse the middle of the wings has a deep hollow. The front of the wings are decorated with transverse (vertical) ribbing, a shallow version of bead-and-reel; there is a groove right next to the bow, then another groove then hints of a broad groove (or flute) and at least one other conventional groove. The bow is D-shaped in cross-section, flat on the …
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-4B4A68
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper-alloy brooch of Nauheim Derivative type and late Iron Age to early Roman date. It consists of a rectangular-section bow with a sharp right angled bend towards the top; at the bend, the bow measures 2.5mm wide and 2mm thick. At the top of the bow, the copper-alloy rod then curls up and forward into nearly two turns of the spring, before a break. The surviving coils sit on the left-hand side of the bow when the brooch is viewed from the front. At the other end, the bow tapers to a pointed foot; on the reverse of the foot are the remains of a catchplate. Total length 42…
Created on: Tuesday 7th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 16th March 2021
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Record ID: NMS-49632B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy Roman brooch, missing its lower bow and foot. The wings are slim, long and tubular, slightly tapering, with a groove on top and bottom dividing the decorated front from the undecorated reverse. The front of each wing has a short undecorated area, then is decorated with a pair of fine grooves with a rounded ridge in between, then a broad U-shaped groove or flute, then at the end probably another pair of fine grooves with a rounded ridge between, but the ends are a little abraded. Total width at wings 31.5mm. The undecorated tubular reverse has a slot in the centre to hold …
Created on: Tuesday 7th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-46FD1B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy brooch of Roman date, now bent. The wings are rectangular in cross-section on the front, tapering in thickness from centre to edge and decorated with transverse (vertical) grooves; there is a narrow groove, a wide groove and then another narrow groove. On the reverse is a hollow tube to hold the copper-alloy axis bar, with an off-centre slot for the hinged copper-alloy pin; all but the loop of the pin is now missing. The bow has a wide U-section groove down the centre which occupies the whole width. The raised edges of this U shape end at the top in a pair of small …
Created on: Tuesday 7th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-F57241
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy bird brooch of Weetch's type 30.A, of late Anglo-Saxon date (11th century). It is very worn and has a green patina. The bird is in profile looking right. The head has what appears to be a very small drooping beak, but which may be the remains of a larger beak than has now worn away. On top of the head is a crest of three rectangular projections, the rear two of which have traces of ribbed decoration. The back of the bird has an upwards-projecting triangular wing with, again, some linear relief decoration, now very worn. There is a ridge separating the body from the tail, …
Created on: Friday 3rd January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-F3C6E2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy Roman brooch of crossbow type. It has cylindrical (or tubular) wings, one broken off (worn break) to show the iron axis bar that runs through the centre of the tube. The surviving wing is small in diameter (3.5mm in the centre) but expands slightly at the end to a side knob of lozengiform or parallelogram cross-section, each side measuring 4mm. This is separated from the more circular-section wing by a transverse groove. In the centre of the wings, on the reverse, is the remains of a slot for the hinged pin, now missing; the surviving wing has a ridge at the edge of …
Created on: Friday 3rd January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-A06181
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny little copper-alloy Roman brooch of rearhook type, just 26mm long. The wings are semi-cylindrical, open at the reverse, and have a patch of corrosion on the right-hand side when viewed from the reverse; this may be a patch of solder. In the centre is the rear-facing hook, apparently complete. On the front the wings are decorated with a single oblique groove running from the top outwards and downwards. There is a hint of a transverse groove running vertically down the very end of one wing, and it is possible that some of the edges are missing here along with a groove at the far en…
Created on: Wednesday 18th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-F801CE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Corroded Roman brooch of rearhook type. The wings are semi-cylindrical, open at the reverse to hold the spring. A tiny fragment of possible spring survives, corroded to the reverse. The wings are incomplete and corroded, but a possible remnant of decoration survives on the front of the more complete right-hand wing (right-hand when viewed from the front); a diagonal line running upwards and outwards from about halfway up the wing at its junction with the bow. In the centre of the wings, on top of the bow, the stub of a rear-facing hook survives. The bow is also very corroded, but h…
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-E5543F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete brooch, now very corroded and missing its head. The bow is a small thick lozenge with a worn break at the top and some possible grooved decoration, both radial grooves and transverse grooves below the lozenge, and a possible annulet in the centre. The foot then flares out to a thick fantail, with no obvious decoration on the front; there is a longitudinal ridge on the reverse which is the remains of the catchplate. Surviving length 26mm, width of foot 15mm, maximum width of bow 9mm. Thickness of bow 4.5mm, thickness of foot (away from catchplate) 2mm. Weight 3.5g. This m…
Created on: Monday 9th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-E4F35B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy Roman plate brooch. Originally circular, less than a quarter of the circumference remains, with the centre also missing. It is thin and flat, with two quite widely spaced lugs on the reverse with much hard grey corrosion around; the lugs may both be incomplete. The design on the front consists of several concentric rings. Around the edge there are ridges, perhaps a double ridge with corrosion between which may be decayed enamel; then a ring of reserved pellets with the remains of a blue enamel inlay in between; then perhaps a wide flat-topped band towards t…
Created on: Monday 9th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-9308A8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and corroded Roman brooch, of Colchester derivative hinged type. The wings are cylindrical, with no seam visible along the reverse. There is a slot in the centre in which the loop of the copper-alloy pin can be seen; the rest of the pin is missing. One end of the wings is complete, and the copper-alloy axis bar can be seen at this open end; the other end is more fragmentary, with a length of the bar visible on the reverse. The surviving width is 35mm, but at least 3mm is missing from the incomplete wing. The wings are decorated with transverse grooves, ridges and mouldings,…
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-92562B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy Rosette brooch of late Iron Age or early Roman date, cast in one piece except for an applied thin plate of decoration. The head is a cylindrical spring cover 27mm wide, now open and incomplete at the back; it is very grey within. On the front the spring cover is decorated with several fine longitudinal grooves, above panels of very fine oblique engraved lines. The lines in the left-hand panel point to the bottom right and the lines in the right-hand panel point to the bottom left. The bow is wide and decorated with a ridge down either side, and three wider r…
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-654D39
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman brooch of Colchester derivative rear-hook type, missing its foot. The wings are semi-cylindrical, open at the back, with some slight encrustations within which might be iron corrosion or the remains of solder. Each wing is decorated on the front with a transverse groove near its end. In the centre, on top of the bow, is a stub of a rear-facing hook. The bow is D-shaped in cross-section, relatively straight and short. It is decorated with a pair of grooves along its length, close together on the very front of the bow. It tapers from 8mm wide and 6mm thick at its juncti…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd December 2019
Last updated: Saturday 27th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-636839
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One-piece Colchester brooch, missing spring and pin and now worn. The wings are short and narrow, and rectangular in cross-section. From the base of the wings a central stub projects to the rear; this would have gone on to form the spring and pin, but is now broken (worn break). From the top of the wings another central projection bends forwards and forms a complete forward-facing hook which would originally have held the chord of the spring in place. The bow projects from the front of the wings. It is oval in cross-section, 6 x 3mm at the top, and tapers smoothly from the top to t…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-1449C2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Colchester derivative hinged brooch with enamelled decoration, missing its foot and parts of the head. The bow is rectangular when viewed from the front, and decorated with a pattern of criss-cross ribs which divide it up into two lozenges and eight triangular fields, all originally filled with enamel. The central column of two lozenges with a triangle above and below retain some pale enamel, and the triangles to either side retain some green or blue enamel. At the base of this panel there are three curved ridges protruding at right angles to the rest of the bow, the cen…
Created on: Friday 29th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-1389D1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Foot and part of bow from an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. A short length of the bow survives, faceted or V-shaped on the front and curved to a hollow on the reverse. There is a short flat area at the base of the bow, then the top of the foot is flat and undecorated. This area has an incomplete catchplate on the reverse, missing its return; to the left of this (when viewed from the reverse) there is iron staining showing that the brooch was buried with the pin closed. The catchplate extends onto the reverse of the mouldings at the top of the horse-head terminal. These are D-s…
Created on: Friday 29th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-12570D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy Nauheim derivative brooch, of late Iron Age or early Roman date (10-100 AD). The brooch is broken across the top of the bow, just after a sharp curve which almost turns the bow through 180 degrees. The spring and pin are missing (fresh break). There is also a break across the foot, and the very end of the foot and a little of the catchplate are also missing. The bow is rectangular in cross-section, 5mm wide and just over a millimetre thick. It is decorated on the front with two longitudinal grooves, between which are short and closely spaced fine oblique groove…
Created on: Friday 29th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 8th January 2020
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