Record ID: SF-F79731
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A Roman copper alloy Colchester derivative,Rear hook lbrooch fragment. It is incomplete due to old breaks, and consists of the top of the bow and wings only of a Colchester brooch , rear hook type. The wings are 19.98mm in width, and are a shallow, semi-circular shape, with two lines of decoration ochester derivative, h. There is moulding on the top of the bow which is rectangular in section, with a small ridge where the rear hook begins, but is now missing . The brooch fragments measures 13.11mm in length and weighs 2.69g.
Created on: Tuesday 13th September 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-B7CCA6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two fragments from Roman Colchester derivative, Harlow style brooch, dated to 50-80. One fragment consists of the wings and upper bow only, of a Colchester derivative brooch with double lug. The wings are short and semi-cylindrical, and are plain and unfaceted. The coil and pin are missing. The line of the double lug at the centre continues forward and runs down the bow as a longitudinal ridge. The bow is flat-backed. The brooch measures 19.02mm in width across the wings, 5.46mm across the bow, and is 16.62mm in surviving length. It weighs 2.86g. The second fragment consists…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AA7D16
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
a copper alloy incomplete Roman bow brooch. The spring case is semi-clindrical, with the ends folded in to enclose part of the spring of six coils . The pin is missing. The bow is flat, 11.05mm wide with a single central broad rib 5.7mm wide. It is attached to the centre of a rosette plate with moulded decoration consisting of an inner band of radiating lines, and then of concentric rings and grooves. The rosette is a flat disc with incomplete edges, and the top of the disc is a straight edge, not joined to the spring case. The foot of the brooch is missing, and the start of the catch…
Created on: Friday 14th March 2008
Last updated: Monday 28th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brandon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-CE2712
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman bow brooch fragment, Langton Down type. It has a cylindrical spring cover, partly un-curled in the centre and exposing four coils of the spring within. Both ends of the spring case are incomplete. The case is decorated on the front with double incised lines along the top. The bow is flat-backed, and the front is decorated with reeding, consisting of several ribs with central grooves. The catchplate is missing, as is the pin. The brooch fragment measures 33.62mm in length and is 23mm wide across the spring case. It weighs 8.87g. Langton Down brooches date to the fi…
Created on: Friday 28th September 2007
Last updated: Monday 28th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-21C384
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Roman bow brooch, Knee type. It is complete except for the pin which is broken and the catchplate which is missing. The brooch has a semi-circular head plate with enclosed ends to hold the axis bar with a spring of four coils. There is a narrow crescent -shaped field which could have taken an enamel infill, at the top of the head. The bow is D-shaped, and the foot out-turned, with the vertical flange of the catchplate extending for 6.3mm from the foot base. The brooch measures 28.02mm in length and is 9.92mm in width. It weighs 2.39g. The shape of this brooch most clos…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2008
Last updated: Monday 28th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hintlesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3F3D42
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy Roman bow brooch, Hod Hill type. The pin is missing, and the bow is bent over in a loop, but is otherwise complete. The bow terminal is rolled over upwards, and the bow is flat, with three deep longitudinal grooves along the centre. There are two transverse ridges across the lower bow , behind which the catchplate is placed centrally, trapezoidal in shape and running down to the foot. The bow tapers to a narrow foot, 5mm wide, defined by two more ridges. There are traces of white metal coating on the upper surface of the brooch. Its length (bent) is 32.5mm and width acros…
Created on: Monday 3rd December 2007
Last updated: Monday 28th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lackford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E07967
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
a copper alloy Roman bow brooch fragment, headstud type. It is the head of the brooch only, with complete chain loop, and short wings with three step mouldings, the edges decorated with horizontal incised lines. The headstud has a raised rim and central dot and the bow is incomplete below the stud, due to old breaks. All other parts are missing. The fragment measures 17.79mm in width and 15.26mm in length. It weighs 5.2g.
Created on: Monday 28th January 2008
Last updated: Monday 28th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Trimley St Martin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-63CD64
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy brooch fragment, Aesica variant - Hattatt's crescent type. Only the upper half survives and the spring and pin are missing. The spring was held by a small rear hook, now missing, with possible solder resulting in a small patch of corrosion in the middle of the back of the wings. The upper bow is arched, and the back plate is flat and expands to a fan-tail leg. At a point mid-brooch there is a narrow, circular-section shaft joining the bow to the back plate. The bow front has a raised central rib with wavy line decoration, grooves on either side and a probable further tw…
Created on: Tuesday 9th September 2008
Last updated: Monday 21st October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-1F92B8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
a copper alloy Roman bow brooch. It is probably a Hod Hill type with a straight bow. The upper, rolled-over terminal is incomplete, and the pin is missing. The bow is a narrow triangular shape, tapering toward a point at its foot behind which is the catchplate. The bow has a shallow central longitudinal rib, and the surfaces are corroded. The leg is straight in profile. The brooch measures 39.76mm in length and is 10.2mm wide at the upper terminal. It weighs 2.24g. Hod Hill brooches are likely to date to the first century AD. This example bears some resemblence to one from Cambridge,…
Created on: Friday 25th April 2008
Last updated: Monday 23rd September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brockley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-CFBFA2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Anglo-Saxon brooch fragment. It may be from the upper bow with the beginnings of the head-plate probably from a cruciform or a square-headed brooch. The bow is decorated with two rectangular panels divided by a longitudinal ridge. There may be further decoration within each panel, but the fragment is corroded and shows signs of having been burnt. The little that survives of the head-plate is decorated with a running rectangular pattern, with chip-carved designs within the rectangular panels. The central panel has a face depicted, with eyebrows over two raised dot eyes e…
Created on: Tuesday 31st August 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-842A48
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a Roman copper-alloy chatelaine brooch. Part of one side of the brooch survives, including one lug to take the missing chatelaine bar. Part of the edge with one side lug is bent back at right angles, apparently torn away from the incomplete plate. The plate is decorated with two bands; the lower contains two triangles and the upper two semi-circles. These decorative cells contain traces of a deposit which may be yellow enamel. The brooch fragment measures 17.09mm in length, 21.6mm in width and weighs 2.3g. Hattatt illustrates examples of these brooches and suggests a se…
Created on: Friday 2nd March 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2019
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Record ID: SF-913EB3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy bow brooch of supporting arm type dating to the early Anglo-Saxon period. The pin and spring are missing; the lugs are damaged and it is abraded around the head and foot. There is corrosion around the two pierced lugs on the reverse of the head. The facets of the arched bow expand into the head, which has rounded edges at both terminals. There is a single horizontal line of decoration along the top of the head, with two groups of three incised lines on the right arm, and on the left upper bow . At the base of the bow is a single groove; below this are single notches on th…
Created on: Tuesday 27th March 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Cornard', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-733814
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy early medieval disc brooch. It is circular 23.85mm in diameter, 1mm in thickness and weighs 3.21g. The brooch is extremely worn, but a faint trace of a human head can be seen with a possible halo behind. A face can just be determined, and there are some angular depressions below, perhaps representing shoulders. To either side there is a cross with irregular rounded arms. One bears traces of red enamel and the other of blue/black enamel. On the reverse side close to the edges of the brooch are the remains of a catchplate, with one complete loop and one catch, with a cuta…
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ixworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-810385
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy plate brooch of Anglo-Saxon date. The body of the brooch is oval, with straight sides and rounded terminals. It resembles a reversed 'S' shape, with a circular perforation within both of the curved 'S' protrusions. The brooch is decorated with a line of ring and dot motifs, starting with one below each perforation and continuing with six more arranged in a curved reverse 'S' line. Some of the dots are deeply pierced but do not perforate the plate. A single line of smaller circles can just be determined outlining the edge of the brooch , clearer on one side as the edges …
Created on: Monday 9th November 2009
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4F4E13
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy middle or late Anglo-Saxon ansate (or caterpillar) brooch. It is complete except for the edge of one terminal. The brooch is narrow and rectangular, having a central arched bow with a pair of moulded ribs in the middle. The two end terminals are separated from the arch by another rib apiece, and there is a final rib or collar at the terminals, one of which is incomplete due to old breaks. The brooch is flat-backed, and there is no trace of decoration on the front face. On the underside there are the remains of a pin lug behind one terminal, and a small patch of corrosio…
Created on: Tuesday 29th November 2011
Last updated: Thursday 1st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Claydon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E49135
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead brooch of 'hub-cap' type (Weetch type 17), of late Early-Medieval date, probably 10th or 11th century. It is circular, 26.7mm in diameter and 1.25mm thick, with a central circular hole (7.65mm in diameter) surrounded by a raised edge. It weighs 10.08g. There are four evenly spaced raised hollow-backed bosses or domes, 4.44mm in diameter, around the edges, each pushed up from the back of the brooch. There is a small sub-circular hole through the lead between two of the domes. There is a lead loop catchplate on the back of the brooch, and remains of an attachment point for a pin.
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2007
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-ADD080
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a copper alloy applied saucer or disc brooch of Early Medieval date. It is the back-plate and is an incomplete disc, 43.92mm in diameter , weighing 3.60g. The edges are broken on an estimated one third of the circumference, and the piece is partly bent, with cracks and fissures as a result of plough damage. There is decoration on one surface, in the form of four small raised domes,one in the centre and three spaced around the periphery. A fourth would be expected to complete the pattern, but the disc is broken away at that point. There are traces of edge nicks on part of the …
Created on: Monday 28th November 2005
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E37553
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy openwork cross brooch dating to the 9th century AD, of Weetch's type 15.B. Less than half the brooch survives. It consists of a ring-shaped semi-circle, 3.85mm wide and with a reconstructable diameter of 26.5mm, with an openwork pattern of one complete quadrant-shaped hole, and parts of two more. Originally the disc would have had four such holes which formed a cross shape, the arms of which widen from the centre to the outside ring. On the reverse there is an integral pin lug, a square lug with a large perforation. A similar brooch from Ixworth, discover…
Created on: Monday 31st July 2006
Last updated: Thursday 4th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ixworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9AEF01
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy annular brooch fragment of early Anglo-Saxon date.It is approximately one quarter of a brooch with a projected diameter of 40mm. The fragment is a flat band, worn and corroded, but has two transverse lines of decoration, close to one incomplete terminal. It measures 32.62mm in surviving length, 10mm in width and 1.92mm in thickness, and weighs 2.76g. Similar annular brooches have been discovered in Icklingham, Suffolk (West 1998, 169, fig 52 and McGregor and Bolick 1993, 88). Their distribution is most heavily concentrated in the Anglian territories and they date fro…
Created on: Monday 18th February 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-409203
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. it is complete except for its pin. The head has a full-round top knob sitting on a waisted stem attached to the head-plate which is rectangular. There are two narrow wings attached to either side of the central panel. The headplate measures 8.37mm in length and 10.97mm in width. The bow is semi-circular in profile, and widens at its centre to 11.72mm. It tapers to the start of the foot and has a band of transverse moulding (three bands and two grooves) at its base and before the foot begins. The top of the foot is 6.5mm in width with …
Created on: Tuesday 25th August 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 24th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horham', grid reference and parish protected.