Record ID: NMS-85D343
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A miscast and unfinished Dolphin brooch with undecorated shallow 'C' sectioned wings which are partially filled with miscast metal, with the stub of a possible hook at the top where there is a further miscast protrusion. The D-sectioned bow is decorated with a median longitudinal groove with raised sides, the lower half of the bow has an irregular surface, again due to miscasting. There is a complete trapezoidal catchplate on the reverse which has not been hammered out and bent over. The pin was never attached. Width 27mm. Length 51mm.
Created on: Thursday 22nd July 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Methwold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-090A85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon lead nummular brooch, cast pattern in relief on face, unusual arrangement for attachment on reverse comprising opposed twin lugs on outside edges with transverse perforations linked by groove with raised sides, diameter 41mm. Pattern derived from penny of Cnut (pointed helmet type), North no.787, pl.13, 1024-30. There is no other English coin with this design.
Created on: Friday 4th June 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Felixstowe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5CF2D6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy disc, the edge damaged, with a central sub-rectangular scar with traces of solder on the reverse from a missing fitting, presumeably to allow the disc to be worn as a brooch. The front is engraved with an inscription around the edge within an inner and outer border of two pairs of concentric circles +ALIVA hI MVN CVR A around the lamb of god with one front leg bent, looking back over its shoulder at a flag. The design strongly resembles a seal matrix, although the inscription is not reversed. Two seal matrices recorded on this database bear a very similar inscription:&nbs…
Created on: Thursday 20th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
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Record ID: NMS-9E218E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval silver finger ring or annular brooch. Four strands of twisted or plaited wire forming a band, slightly flattened on the inner face of the curve, with a flat-sectioned quatrefoil boss soldered to the outer face forming the bezel. Each foil of the boss is engraved to resemble a leaf with angled lines to either side of a median line. Traces of gilding survive on the wire and boss. Not enough survives to estimate the original diameter. Width of band 4mm. Width of boss 7mm. Weight 0.9g. For a twisted wire brooch see Egan and Pritchard (2002, 254, fig.164, no.1340). 13t…
Created on: Monday 16th May 2016
Last updated: Monday 27th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-2C8D19
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval silver open-framed brooch. Sub-circular frame, flat on the reverse, cast in low relief on the front in the form of two addorsed birds, with their tails intertwined in a knot terminating in a rounded 'brambled' knop on the outer edge of the frame, their curved bodies forming the sides of the brooch, their heads turned back so their beaks meet above the piercing for the pin attachment. On the outer edge of the frame a small rounded knop with radiating grooves may be intended as a shell or pearl held between the bird's beaks and mirroring the knop at their tails. Deta…
Created on: Wednesday 24th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Witchingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-BC99D4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver annular brooch. The frame is flat on the reverse and convex on the upper face, in the form of a two snakes, the smaller snake wrapped around one half of the larger, the separate heads and a fragment of wire forming the tip of a tail soldered onto the frame so there is a head at either end of the pin when the brooch is closed. The sheet pin has a double rib before the loop. The half of the frame formed by the body of the larger snake is decorated with a zigzag triple rib with crosshatching in the resulting triangular fields to either side. The other half of the frame has…
Created on: Monday 11th April 2016
Last updated: Sunday 17th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-22D466
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A fragment of a Middle or Late Anglo-Saxon silver brooch. Originally cross-shaped, the fragment consists of the splayed or pelta-shaped terminal of one arm, with just over one coil of an incomplete integral spring projecting from the edge and coiling under the plate. The plate is broken along the straight edge of a further panel forming the arm of the cross or perhaps the centre of the brooch. The terminal probably originally joined the terminals of the neighbouring arms to form apertures in the internal angles of the cross, across which the plate is now broken. The termi…
Created on: Tuesday 13th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-3643E6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of Middle or Late Anglo-Saxon silver brooch with none of the original outer edge surviving. The plate is in the form of a cross with a separate central decorative silver dome-headed rivet. Each arm of the cross is decorated with a panel of similar but different geometric, perhaps interlaced, decoration reserved on a field of niello, much of which is missing. The quality of the engraving is not high. Each panel is edged with a reserved border, and the central rivet is also surrounded by a reserved border. The arms of the cross flare towards the breaks, and the plat…
Created on: Wednesday 14th May 2014
Last updated: Saturday 9th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-EE4110
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver annular brooch. Frame at an angle with beaded border on inside and outside edge. Five bosses, each consisting of four pellets, are fused to the edge. Frame pierced for cast pin with flange on either side next to frame, across which is a transverse engraved line. 13th - 14th century. External diameter including bosses 15mm, excluding bosses 11.5mm. Weight 0.75g.
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holme Hale', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-8DD6B1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy annular brooch. Less than a quarter of the circular-sectioned frame with deep angled grooves on both faces giving the appearance of cord. Broken across the constriction for the (missing) pin. Width of frame 5mm. Original external diameter circa 50mm.13th - 14th century.
Created on: Monday 12th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-8DF043
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy reversable annular brooch. Less than a quarter of the D-sectioned frame with pairs of lightly engraved transvers lines forming ribs with a pair of opposed angled dashes between on half the surviving upper face, and pairs of transverse lines formed from a series of short dashes on the opposite half on the flat underside. Broken across the constriction for the (missing) pin. Width of frame 5mm. Original external diameter circa 32mm.13th - 14th century.
Created on: Monday 12th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-4BE6A1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval annular brooch; flattened triangular section, constriction for missing pin, four rectangular cut-outs on inside edge, probably for missing bars, perhaps forming a saltire? Diameter 43-4mm. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E48FB4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of silver with "chip carved" Style I decoration. Breaks are ancient, no sign of damage by cremation. The rounded form and arrangement of decoration are reminiscent of the footplate and side lobes of a great square-headed brooch, in particular of a Hines' group IV example from Rothley, Leicestershire (Hines, 1997, 338, fig.27, pl.17b). Weighing 2.58g, measuring 17 x 15mm. Early 6th century.
Created on: Friday 4th January 2008
Last updated: Saturday 26th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Norfolk Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-83AFC2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman Trumpet brooch. The pin and lower part of the foot are missing. Plain head, the spring has five coils with the axis bar intact. There is no chain-loop. The full acanthus moulding at the middle of the bow is lacking some detail on the reverse. Head width 12mm.
Created on: Wednesday 15th September 2004
Last updated: Saturday 26th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carleton Rode', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B44FA0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Disc brooch, of Mackreth's British Plate type, about two-thirds of the outside edge missing. Raised edge, raised inner circle around central cone with collared terminal and central blind hole. Ring of slightly overlapping stamped annulets between inner and outer circles. On reverse double pin lug and remains of copper-alloy pin almost obscured by iron corrosion, incomplete catch-plate. Diameter 25mm. Very similar to Hattatt (2000), fig.206 no. 1069 and 1070. 2nd century
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 9th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Diss', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-511A83
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One arm and part of the bow of an Early Saxon copper alloy Anglian equal-armed brooch. Sub-triangular head-plate with no visible trace of decoration. Circa half of the bow survives, flat-backed with a slightly convex upper face. The pin lug on reverse is almost completely obscured by corroded iron from the pin. Surviving length 24mm. Surviving width 24mm. Mid - late 5th century. For a similar example See NMS-BC1122 and an example from inhumation 46 Spong Hill, Norfolk (Hills et al., 1984, 148, fig.101, no.2). ES2.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2012
Last updated: Saturday 27th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8BB61E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Ceredigion
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval silver brooch with circular, open frame, almost circular-sectioned with slight flattening on the inside, inlaid with niello in a combination of encircling and criss-crossed lines, now very worn in places. The pin is cast in the form of a sword, with a tapering lozengiform-section, upwardly curved quillons with scrolled ends, and tabs folded around the frame to form the attachment loop. All four facets of the pin are engraved with a line of rocker-arm zigzags, with a dot in each of the resulting inner triangles on the front face. The front face of the edge of the quillons is r…
Created on: Monday 10th August 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-FA2190
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval gilded silver annular brooch. The openwork frame is flat sectioned, consisting of an internal ring with sixteen conjoined scallop-shell or fan-shaped projections (eleven of which survive) around the outer edge with a small circular hole between each one. One of these holes is expanded and the internal ring narrowed to hold the (missing) pin. The internal ring is decorated with an incised single line border around the inner and outer edge with angled grooves between, within which traces of niello survive. Although still in one piece, the frame is broken across its full width…
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2010
Last updated: Monday 20th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elm', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0D4020
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver annular brooch. The circular frame is in the form of two snakes which overlap at their necks, the heads pointing away from the frame. Each elongated head has a pointed muzzle, small projecting ears, and a line forming the closed mouth. One pellet eye survives on each head. One half of the frame is flat sectioned with a pair of median engraved lines along the back, and pairs on tiny pecked notches to either side, possibly representing scales. It narrows towards the rear, then becomes circular sectioned and wrapped in silver wire, leaving a gap for the pin, for the other half. Th…
Created on: Thursday 10th December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Billingford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F17F21
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval distorted fragment of a silver annular brooch. Circular-sectioned frame with two round knops each decorated with closely spaced stamped annulets. Broken at both ends, pin missing. Surviving length 32mm. Diameter of knops 4mm. Thickness of frame 1.75mm. Weight 1.18g. Cf. Treasure Annual Report 20115/6, 347, no.333 and 334 for similar examples. 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wendling', grid reference and parish protected.