Record ID: NCL-76BB20
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy trumpet brooch of the Roman period, c. 75-200. The brooch is incomplete, missing the pin, foot and catchplate of the brooch, but is otherwise in good condition. The bell-shaped head has the base of a headloop on the upper edge, and a cast integral lug on the reverse holds four coils of the sprung pin. The bow has opposed acanthus decoration in full round, with the break occuring just below this peak of the bow.
Created on: Monday 3rd November 2014
Last updated: Monday 3rd November 2014
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Record ID: NCL-7519D5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The foot terminal of an Anglo-Saxon great square-headed brooch cast in copper-alloy, dating to the 6th century. Only the foot terminal remains, consisting of a sub-circular disc with a short length of the remaining foot projecting from the disc. The face is decorated moulded linear motif from the foot projecting into the centre of the terminal, consisting of a broad band flanked by two smaller bands and ending in a mask motif, all within a raised, moulded border. Surrounding the mask-motif on the terminal is an outer crescent-shaped band with continuous scroll decoration in relief.…
Created on: Monday 3rd November 2014
Last updated: Monday 3rd November 2014
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Record ID: NCL-AA21D1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, cast copper-alloy trumpet brooch of the Roman period, dating c. 70-200. The brooch is very worn and corroded, with the upper half of the brooch and head bent back sharply from the bow. The cast integral lug on the reverse of the head bears iron corrosion. The centre of the bow is decorated with opposed acanthus decoration in full-round. Below this decoration, the base of the missing catchplate can be found on the reverse of the bow. There may have been some further decoration on the bow, but wear and damage has obscured this.
Created on: Tuesday 30th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Record ID: NCL-A9F985
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, cast copper-alloy headstud brooch of the Roman period, dating c. 70-200. The brooch consists is very worn and corroded, with only one arm partially surviving on the head. A moulded line in relief at the back of the head separates the front of the brooch with the reverse, with two long cylinders on the back of the head acting as lugs for a hinged pin, now missing. The bow tapers from the centre of the head toward the foot, becoming increasingly corroded until a break. A separate headstud was inserted through a hole in the top of the bow where it joins the head. The he…
Created on: Tuesday 30th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 30th September 2014
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Record ID: NCL-D808CA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy complete Colchester-derivative two-piece brooch, c. AD 69-100. The brooch is T-shaped in plan, with a cylindrical head to hold the axel and hinged pin. The outer faces of the arms have grooved decoration running vertically. The bow emerges from the centre of the head and tapers to the foot, the lower half of the bow retaining the hooked catchplate emerging from its reverse. The bow is also bears grooved decoration running vertically down its length.
Created on: Monday 8th September 2014
Last updated: Monday 8th September 2014
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Record ID: NCL-D7D8EB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy incomplete Colchester-derivative two-piece brooch, c. AD 43-70. The brooch is T-shaped in plan, with a semicylindrical head to hold the now missing sprung pin and a hooked bow that emerged from the centre of the head and tapers toward the foot. The lower half of the bow retains the base of the incomplete hooked catchplate emerging from its reverse.
Created on: Monday 8th September 2014
Last updated: Monday 8th September 2014
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Record ID: NCL-D7C02B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy incomplete rosette or thistle brooch of the late Iron Age to early Roman period, c. AD 1-50. The brooch is incomplete, missing the sprung pin and catchplate, though the main body of the brooch is fairly complete, if worn. The brooch has a backing plate cast integral with the semi-cylindrical head and bow, forming a basic T-shape in planview, but with a rounded centre in the plate and a rectangular foot. The bow is broad and rectangular in plan and section, emerging from the top of the bow and turning sharply down and tapering where it rejoins the rounded centre …
Created on: Monday 8th September 2014
Last updated: Monday 8th September 2014
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Record ID: NCL-52412E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A strap or dress fitting made from a copper-alloy jetton of the Medieval period, c. 1300-1500. The jetton is too worn to be identified, though some minor detail survives. The reverse was used as the face of the fitting, and this bore a longcross with possible florettes made from pellets shapes in each quarter and an illegible inscription quartered around the outside. Detail is better surviving on the obverse, but still illegible. A lozenge-shaped strip of copper alloy was riveted to the obverse of the jetton, and the ends hooked inward to attach this fitting, though the hooked ends…
Created on: Tuesday 15th July 2014
Last updated: Thursday 20th October 2016
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Record ID: NCL-512AFA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragmentary headstud brooch of early Roman date, c. AD 70-200. Only the head of the brooch remains, consisting of the upper bow, arms, and pin mechanism. The bow is rectangular in section, and enough remains to indicate that it tapered toward the foot. No headstud is present, but this was probably located below the break of the bow. A row of alternating red and blue enamel squares runs up the centre of the bow. The arms are square in appearance (facing forward) and D-shaped in section, with the flat face forward. Each arm bears a vertical arrangement of three small rectangular fi…
Created on: Tuesday 15th July 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 15th July 2014
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Record ID: NCL-789E65
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy Colchester-derivative brooch, dating c. 50-100. The brooch is incomplete, missing the spring pin and the headloop. The head of the brooch has two arms, D-shaped in section, to either side of the upper bow. The base of the headloop can be seen on the top of each arm. The reverse of the head has a cast integral loop for holding the missing spring pin. The bow is also D-shaped in section and tapers to the foot, which terminates with a small disc. The lower bow retains the base of the catchplate, thought the hooked pin-rest is missing.
Created on: Monday 5th May 2014
Last updated: Thursday 7th January 2016
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Record ID: NCL-011984
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete, cast copper-alloy Thealby Mine brooch of the Roman period, dating c. AD 70-200. The brooch consists of the head, upper bow and the base of a headloop, missing the lower bow, catchplate and hinged pin. The head consists of two arms of semi-circular section, with moulded decoration on the outer face flanking the bow. The bow tapers from the head toward the foot, and there is an incised triangle on its upper face. The rectangular base of a cast-integral headloop also remains on the top of the head, with moulded grooves across its width, and the base of the loop visib…
Created on: Monday 24th March 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NCL-00C904
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, cast copper-alloy headstud brooch of the Roman period, dating c. AD 70-200. The brooch consists of the head and upper bow, missing the lower bow, catchplate and hinged pin. The incomplete brooch is extremely worn and very corroded, so details of decoration have been lost. The head consists of two arms of sub-rectangular plan and section, with traces of moulded ribs on the outer face of the arms to either side of the bow. The bow is widest at the head and tapers toward the foot, projecting forward from the head and then turning in a very stark angle toward the foot…
Created on: Monday 24th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 24th March 2014
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Record ID: NCL-C74394
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, cast copper-alloy cruciform brooch of early Anglo-Saxon manufacture, dating c. 475-600. What remains of the brooch are the bow, with part of the central plate of the head and a lower panel attached to the bow. The central plate is undecorated, with broken edges leaving it in a sub-triangular shape in plan. The underside of the central plate retains a copper-ally lug cast integral with the head and two complete coils of an iron spring-pin corroded in place. The bow has a rectangular panel at each end, each with two inscribed lines running parallel across its width nea…
Created on: Tuesday 25th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2014
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Record ID: NCL-907858
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy Polden Hill brooch of the early Roman period, c. 75-175 AD. The brooch is incomplete, missing the lower bow, catchplate and pin. The head consists of semi-cylindrical arms cast integral with a broad bow of D-shaped section that tapers from head to foot. The back of the head retains the sprung pin corroded in place, consisting of seven coils around an axel that is inserted from the outside of the head casing. The brooch is very worn.
Created on: Wednesday 29th January 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NCL-62D808
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy fragment of a square-headed brooch of Anglo-Saxon tradition, dating c. 500-600. Only a fragment of the brooch remains, consisting of part of a square panel of the upper foot (that is, the area immediately below the bow), which has evidence for repair. The display face retains a short length of undecorated border in high relief with a parallel string of pellets in lower relief set just inside. The panel is decorated with what appears to be Style II decoration in chip-carved relief, though not enough remains to interpret the decoration confidently. A small area…
Created on: Monday 27th January 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
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Record ID: NCL-280524
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy dragonesque brooch, c. 75-200. Only one 'head' or terminal remains of the S-shaped plate brooch. The head is zoomorphic, with a petal-shape in plan with a large boss forming an eye and a curling scoll emerging from the pointed end to form a snout. The ring around the boss-eye may have originally held enamel, though no trace remains. The reverse is undecorated.
Created on: Friday 24th January 2014
Last updated: Friday 24th January 2014
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Record ID: NCL-247812
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy T-shaped brooch of early Roman date, c. 43-100. The brooch has a semi-cylindrical head that would hold the now missing sprung pin. The bow is L-shaped in profile and D-shaped in section, emerging perpendicular from the centre of the head and tapering down to the foot. The base of the catchplate can be observed on the underside of the lowerhalf of the bow. The lower bow has become detached from the rest of the object. The brooch is very worn.
Created on: Friday 24th January 2014
Last updated: Friday 24th January 2014
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Record ID: NCL-6721A6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy headstud brooch of early Roman date, c. 69-200. Only the extremely worn head of the brooch remains, consisting of thick and short cylindrical arms with a rectangular slot in the middle of the reverse for the hinge pin. A small domed stud is cast integral on the head at the top of the bow, which is broken just below the headstud, though with an indication that the bow was rectangular in section, and tapered in width from the head. The break on the bow if very abraded.
Created on: Wednesday 15th January 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
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Record ID: NCL-5521A7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy trumpet brooch of the early Roman period, c. 75-200. The brooch is incomplete, missing its pin and its headloop. The head is bell-shaped, merging into the bow with confronted acanthus-leaf decoration moulded in relief, half round, with the bow continuing to taper toward the foot, though a break at the end of the bow has removed a likely footknob. The hooked catchplate emerged beneath the lowerhalf of the bow, though this is also incomplete, suffering from the same episode of damage that removed the footknob. One face of the catchplate has a stamped ring-and-dot decor…
Created on: Tuesday 14th January 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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Record ID: NCL-C7BA40
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy T-shaped brooch of early Roman date, c. 43-150 AD. The brooch has semicylindrical wings cast integral with the bow, and which would have protected the missing sprung-pin. The bow is sharply hooked, initially rising from the head before arching downward, narrowing in width from top to base, where it is pointed. The base of the catchplate remains on the underside of the pointed terminal of the bow.
Created on: Monday 2nd December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd April 2014
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