Record ID: CORN-CAA036
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast enamelled copper-alloy Roman Head stud hinged brooch dating from the late 1st century to the late 2nd century AD. The base of a loop remains at the head of the bow between the wings which survive as square front plates that have recessed cells which still hold enamel in the left wing. Behind the wing plates there is a narrow tube in which the missing axis bar would have rotated. The hinge and pin of the brooch are also missing. At the head of the brooch is a raised disc or 'head stud', 6 mm in diameter, which is decorated with a moulded cruciform design. Below the head stud the…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 9th March 2020
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Record ID: CORN-D6B7ED
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper-alloy Roman Polden Hill type brooch, dating from the late 1st to the late 2nd century AD. The brooch is 22.5 mm in length, 13.5 mm in width, 5 mm in thickness, 10 mm in height and 3.65 g in weight. It consists of an integral circular loop with an aperture of 2 mm in diameter, set above and at right angles to the cross bar or wings which are incomplete and have a curved concave back to hold the spring, now missing, along with the pin. The loop would have held the external chord from the spring mechanism. The wings are separated from the head of the bow by a stepp…
Created on: Tuesday 26th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 27th November 2019
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Record ID: CORN-40B360
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy zoomorphic foot from an Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, dating from the later 5th to the 6th century AD. The foot is in the form of a horse's head with flared rounded nostrils creating a semi-circular terminal, incised with a pair of oblique grooves to define them from the nose, and stamped with ring and dot motifs to create the texture of a hairy snout. Above the nostrils, the nose is plain and narrows towards two projecting triangular eyes. The eyes narrow from 3 mm in diameter at the base to points that are 1 mm in diameter, and are divided by an incised …
Created on: Thursday 7th November 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th November 2019
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Record ID: CORN-2E0F7D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy foot and catchplate of a Roman Colchester type two-piece brooch. The broken foot at the end of the bow is now 24 mm long, and slender and plano-convex in section, 3 mm wide and 2 mm thick at the broken end, tapering to a pointed terminal that is 2 mm in width. The catchplate is triangular in profile, 17 mm long, 10 mm wide and 3 mm thick at the edge and 1.5 mm thick at the internal plate. There are two circular perforations in the plate which are 2 mm in diameter to allow for a loop to pass through and then link to a chain which would link to brooches together to hol…
Created on: Wednesday 6th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 7th November 2019
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Record ID: CORN-54A637
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy large Roman wheel brooch in three pieces with a central boss, 10 mm in diameter, at the hub and smaller bosses, 4 mm in diameter, on each spoke of the wheel, where the spokes meet the rim. Four out of the six spokes survive, with one attached to part of the rim as a fragment. The hinge and copper alloy pin, which is 60 mm long and 3 mm in diameter, survive on the back of the brooch and a fragment of the catchplate, 14 mm long and 18 mm wide and 5 mm thick, which has a circular perforation that is 2.2 mm in diameter and 4 mm deep. Roman wheel brooches ar…
Created on: Thursday 15th August 2019
Last updated: Monday 7th October 2019
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Record ID: CORN-9DA819
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn fragment of the bow of a cast copper-alloy Roman T-shaped brooch, dating from the 1st to the 2nd century AD. It is elliptical in plan, wider at the top than at the bottom, and plano-convex in profile and section; 27 mm in length, 11.5 mm maximum width, 6 mm in thickness and 6.7 g in weight. The cross bar, head, part of the bow, foot, catchplate and pin are all missing and the broken ends are rounded and worn. The wider, upper section of the bow fragment is decorated with two raised, horizontal transverse bands, each about 4 mm in width, with a space between which, although corrod…
Created on: Thursday 25th July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2019
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Record ID: CORN-D9B9D4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy brooch in the form of a back-biting beast, dating from the Early Medieval period. The beast has two legs that are bent into a crouched position with larger rear haunches, a curved belly and neck that is turning the head to the right over the back. The head is defined by a curved groove between the neck and head, leading to the ear. There is also another crescent-shaped groove below the eye dividing the snout and mouth. The mouth consists of an open jaw that extends into three tendrils that terminate in scrolls to represent an upper and lower jar on either side of a to…
Created on: Tuesday 16th July 2019
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
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Record ID: CORN-7B1D85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete silvered cast copper alloy Cornish Type 31 Aesica-variant brooch dating from the Roman period. The brooch is missing the terminals of the wings and of the side arms of the cruciform bow, as well as the pin and the curved hook of the catchplate on the back of the fantail foot, but most of the wings and the cruciform bow, still with its three bossed rivets, 4 mm in diameter, intact at the head, the centre of the cross and the base arm of the cross, survive. The tubular wings still hold the copper alloy axial bar, which can be seen in section at the end of wings where they hav…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
Last updated: Saturday 2nd February 2019
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Record ID: CORN-525230
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete cast copper alloy Roman initial, hinged T-shaped, South-western derivative brooch. The crossbar is mainly missing with just short sections of the tubular wings extending to a maximum of 8 mm from the head of the bow at the front of the brooch, with the back open to show where the spindle was once held and an empty cavity for the hinge and pin mechanism which is also missing. The bow is C-shaped in section with a hollow cavity at the back which extends almost to where the bow is broken. The head of the bow has a flattened section between the wings, and below that is quite co…
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 1st June 2020
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Record ID: CORN-2707E2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy Roman Dolphin or Polden Hill type brooch dating from the 1st century AD. The fragment consists of the foot of the bow, which is 29 mm long and 3 mm wide, and the catchplate behind it. The catchplate is triangular in profile, 13 mm wide and 2 mm thick expanding to 4 mm thick where the lip extends to hook the missing pin. There are two curvilinear areas of openwork with an angled bar separating them within the triangle of the catchplate. The catchplate resembles two illustrated by Bayley and Butcher (2004) on pp.90-91, figs.70 & 72, nos.206 & 213 from a h…
Created on: Thursday 13th December 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2019
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