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Record ID: NMS-FE2CF5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Extremely worn and corroded fragemnt of copper alloy Roman bow brooch. Wings missing, reverse of head slightly concave, spring and pin missing, shallow D-sectioned bow, lower half of bow and catch-plate missing. Breaks ancient. Surviving length 22mm Probably 1st century AD.
Created on: Thursday 17th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 17th October 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-6A3B21
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy brooch. Hexagonal frame with concave sides, flat-sectioned, restriction for (missing) pin on outside edge in the centre of one side. The upper face of each side is decorated with a shallow crescent-shaped depression filled with a line of tiny pellets in very low relief. The brooch does not appear overly worn but the decoration is only just discernable. Maximum external width 24mm. Maximum internal width 15mm. Thickness 1mm. See Egan and Pritchard (2002, 258, no.1346) for a pewter brooch with hexagonal frame decorated with pellets from a late 14th century context.
Created on: Wednesday 17th July 2013
Last updated: Monday 16th September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rougham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4BB9C5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Small-long brooch, Leeds cross potent Type, head-plate with notches at base of semi-circular arms, stump of missing bow, perforated lug on reverse within iron corrosion and remains of iron pin. 34 x at least 26mm. Late 5th-6th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-365184
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy long brooch, head missing, arched flat-sectioned bow with traces of engraved longitudinal grooved lines, semi-circular cut-outs flank remains of damaged slightly flaring and possibly rounded foot with remains of catch-plate on reverse. Measuring at least 10 x at least 40mm. Probably an armbrustfibel, cf. an example from Oxborough (HER 2634). Early to mid 5th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foulsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-363494
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete small-long brooch, Leeds 1945 square-head type, the head-plate has the stump of the missing bow on the lower edge. Single lug with remains of decayed iron pin on reverse. The break across the bow is ancient. Length at least 19mm. Width 19mm. Late 5th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-362CC7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete small-long brooch, Leeds 1945 cross pattee derivative type, all below the lower part of the bow missing. The head-plate has notches at the angles in the upper edge and flanking the springing of the bow in the lower edge. Lines of fine punched annulets follow the edge of the notches. A rectangular panel forming facets is extant at the top of the D-sectioned bow. It is decorated with the remains of a transverse groove. Twin pin lugs with remains of decayed iron pin on reverse. The break across the bow is ancient. Length at least 30mm. Width 18mm. Late 5th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-361E63
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head-plate and bow of a tinned Cruciform brooch: cast-in-one top knob, trapezoidal central panel, incomplete flaring wings, rectangular panel forming facets and decorated with twin horizontal lines at top and base of hollow-backed bow. Lug on reverse contains corroded remains of iron pin. There is no stamped decoration. Ancient breaks. Width at least 27mm. Length at least 52mm. Early to mid 6th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-350FB0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small flat copper alloy fragment, all edges broken, the front face gilt and with "chip carved" face decoration consisting of a row of short grooved ribs and part of a probable frame of animal ornament. The rear face is plain and badly pock-marked. Probably part of a brooch, either a Great Square-headed or a Florid Cruciform. Surviving dimensions 15 x 11mm. Thickness 2.5mm. 6th century.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-227D43
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cruciform brooch of Åberg / Leeds Group IVa. Headplate and upper part of the bow are missing, remains of facetted bow with shallow hollow on the reverse. The footplate begins as a flat trapezium between remains of two lappets, the almost complete one with a highly simplified downward-pointing beaked head. The half-round moulding comprises a groove between two broad ribs. The animal-head terminal is broken beneath a pair of protruding eyes, terminal missing. Broken catch-plate on reverse. Ancient breaks. Length grater than 60mm, width at broken lappets greater than 29mm. 6t…
Created on: Monday 19th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-66F9A5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A heavily clipped denier of Conrad, bishop of Utrecht (1076-99). There are four piercings near the edge of the coin, arranged roughly as the spots on the face of a die. One of these is now empty, the other three still contain small silver rivets. Two of these rivets secure a catchplate formed of a silver strip; a pin attachment would doubtless have been secured by the other two rivets, one now missing. Thus, this coin has been adapted as a small disc brooch. The exterior face is gilded and depicts a façade within a beaded border. The interior face is not gilded and figures a male hea…
Created on: Thursday 24th February 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 7th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FE98A7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Iron Age or Roman copper alloy Colchester one piece type brooch. Oval-sectioned bow broken accross the wings at the head, pin and spring missing, almost all of catch-plate missing, terminating in a blunt point. Surviving length 43mm. Maximum width 8mm. c. 20 - 60 AD.
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-D5F811
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Anglo-Saxon copper alloy cruciform brooch.Rectangular head-plate with traces of stamped dots along either edge, rectangular wings on either side, the edges very worn and side knops missing. At the top of the plate is an integral spike which secures a separate half-round, waisted knop with an aperture in the reverse through which the spike can be seen. There is a rectangular panel at each end of the D-sectioned bow creating triangular facets to either side, below which are transverse mouldings and lines before the elongated animal-head terminal, which has prominent pellet eyes an…
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Billingford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4E9186
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon incomplete copper alloy small long brooch. Incomplete head-plate with slightly raised central rectangular panel, most of original edge missing and single pin-lug filled with iron corrosion from (missing) pin on reverse. Triangular-sectioned bow broken before lower part of brooch. End of bow and foot-plate missing. Surviving width of head-plate 17mm. Surviving length of head-plate 16mm. Total surviving length 28.5mm. Late 5th - early 6th century.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4E6B92
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon copper alloy ansate brooch with tri-lobed terminals and a triple transverse rib at the apex of the bow. The single rectangular pin-lug filled with iron corrosion from the (missing) pin and a scar only from the missing catch-plate, survive on the reverse. Very worn. Length 34mm. Width 7mm. Thörle (2001) Gruppe XII A 1. See NMS-780DA4 and NMS-6B7F41 for similar examples. 8th - 9th century.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4DBCD1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon incomplete lead disc brooch. Less than a quarter of the original edge survies. The decoration, which covers all of the survivining surface, comprises at least 7 closley spaced concentric beaded rings. There may originally have been a central device but no trace of it ow survives. On the reverse is a folded catch-plate, now squashed, at right-angles to the edge of the plate. Pin missing. Original diameter (recomnstructed) circa 40mm. Thickness 2mm. For a similar brooch see NMS-109141. Circa 10th century.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-AF32C3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early Saxon copper alloy probably small-long brooch. One corner of the incomplete head-plate with straight upper edge and rounded projection with single stamped ring-and-dot on one surviving angled side. Single pierced lug for the (missing) pin on the reverse. Break across the base and side not recent but not very worn. Surviving length 15mm. Surviving width 15mm. Original width (assuming symmetrical, and centrally placed pin-lug) 18mm. The surviving fragment does not compare well with other known types of head-plate.
Created on: Wednesday 26th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8635A6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon copper alloy ansate brooch. Almost triangular-sectioned bow with flattened top and median longitudinal groove worn away at the apex. Flat terminals with concave sides and tri-lobed terminals with three grooves retaining traces of decayed pale material. Incomplete catch-plate broken at the fold and double lugs filled with iron corrosion from the (missing) pin. Length 41mm. Width of terminal 11mm.
Created on: Monday 24th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C33794
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy bow brooch, either a small long or cruciform brooch. Rectangular head-plate with a row of > shaped stamps along each long edge, narrow rectangular wings, integral slightly hollow-backed half-round knops with double concave mouldings, the upper knop broken near the join with the head-plate, the terminal of one side knop missing.Triangular facets at the springing of the shallow D-sectioned bow. Faint transverse lines on surviving part of foot-plate before transverse break across incomplete catch-plate and foot. Double-pierced lugs on reverse of head-plate betwee…
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 16th July 2013
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-403E33
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Roman copper alloy brooch. Triple-stepped lozengiform plate with wide flange around the edge with a pair of rounded knops at either end and to each side. Single pin-lug retaining fragment of copper alloy pin and incomplete rectangular catch-plate on the reverse. Length 27 x 14mm. 2nd century AD.
Created on: Monday 15th July 2013
Last updated: Monday 15th July 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-06D957
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy cruciform brooch. Only the bow survives. Slightly hollow on the reverse, deeply convex on the front, with a rectangular panel at either end forming triangular facets to each side. Corroded, breaks ancient. Length 29mm. Width 15mm. Late 5th - 6th century.
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rougham', grid reference and parish protected.