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Record ID: NMS-D2C402
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
About half of the flat circular frame of an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy annular brooch, with an original diameter of c. 40mm. One break is across a neat rounded hole in the frame. This may be the pin hole, but on the reverse there is solder around the hole and it may possibly alternatively be a repair. There is also some iron corrosion on the reverse here, which could be from the pin. The frame is otherwise well preserved here, and at 6.1mm wide appears to retain its original width. The inner edge is 1.2mm thick and it tapers towards the outer edge which is 0.6mm thick. Th…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D16462
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy, probably a small piece of foot from an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. The fragment is C-shaped in cross-section, hollow on the reverse, and is broken at both ends (one break fairly fresh and granular, the other more worn). At one end, the front has a bold moulding, 4-5mm deep and flat-topped, which is divided into two by an off-centre transverse groove. The overall surviving length is 21.1mm, maximum width 12.8mm and maximum thickness (at moulding) 6.0mm. It weighs 4.93g. It seems likely that this is one of the mouldings at the top of a horse's …
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D0E282
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and bow from an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch. The flat, apparently undecorated headplate has a sub-rectangular central panel with three flat 'knobs', all of which appear to have been mushroom-shaped, or D-shaped above narrowed waists. This shape of headplate is often known as 'trefoil'. On the reverse of the headplate is a broken pin bar lug (worn breaks) with iron staining around it. All the edges of the headplate are worn. The bow is D-shaped in cross-section, quite highly arched and simple, with a groove across the top the onl…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D0BB0C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Head and bow from an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch. The flat headplate is very worn and its original shape is uncertain, but it has the remains of deep U-shaped cut-outs in both its lower edge and its upper corners, forming three knobs. These may have had straight ends, as the top and one side knob each retain a straight row of crescentic stamps along their edges. On the reverse of the headplate is a large double pin bar lug, one lug incomplete and the other retaining part of an iron pin bar. There is extensive iron corrosion between the two lugs.  The bow…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D07466
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch, now in two joining parts. The head is of the 'cross potent' type, with a flat rectangular central panel c. 13 x 18mm. This has three sub-rectangular flat 'knobs' attached by narrower waists, to form a headplate in total 32.2mm wide. The surface is corroded and some is missing, but traces of double-crescent or half ring-and-dot stamps can be seen; there is a row of five on the top knob and a similar row on one side knob, each with a trace of a single groove outside the row of stamps. On the reverse of the headpla…
Created on: Monday 15th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-558A04
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy English Medieval jetton with a clasp riveted to what would have been the obverse, showing a shield of Arms and a border of alternating dashes and rosettes. The other side, intended to be displayed, shoes a triple armed cross moline fleurry with one dash in each quadrant of the outer circle and alternating crescents and stars in the inner quadrants. This jetton has been turned into a clasp or brooch in the same way as a number of others noted by Marsden in Norfolk Archaeology 2014, pp.92. Invariably the reverse was displayed, making it clear that the cross was th…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-448764
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper-alloy small long/cruciform brooch dating to circa AD 450-570. The extant element is virtually complete save for the apex of the head and the lower foot, terminal and pin. The head plate is flat and rectangular. It terminates in old breaks on each of its edges and it is, therefore, unclear whether there would have been attached any side knops or integrally cast elements. The headplate is undecorated. The bow emerges from the lower edge of the headplate. It is curved in profile and plano-convex in section. Running down the centre is a lo…
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-4343DA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Early Medieval copper-alloy cruciform brooch dating to circa AD 475-550. The extant piece consists of a side knop which would have been attached to the headplate of the brooch.. It is dumbbell shaped in plan and plano-convex in section, with a flat reverse. The front face consists of two lobes joined by a constricted mid-setion. Each lobe is decorated with three incised transverse grooves. At the efge of one of the lobes is a shall median rectangular groove which would have facilitated attachment to the brooch. It is now covered with iron staining.  Half-rou…
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-D5B0BB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper-alloy ansate brooch dating to circa AD 700-1000. Cast in one piece it consists of two flat discoidal terminals at either end. One terminal appears to have been slightly miscast with a circular protrusion projecting from one edge. The bow has a triangular-section and is curved in profile. The terminals and bow are undecorated. Projecting from the reverse of one of the terminals is a heavily corroded lug which would have held the now missing pin. There is now no trace of a catchplate projecting from the reverse of the other terminal. The brooch is con…
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2024
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-C67C49
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Hod Hill brooch, missing hinged pin mechanism and catch-plate, the latter remains as a linier stump on the reverse, the bow has been partially flattened, probably from agricultural machinery passing over the top of the soil. The metal is now a bright green with light brown patination to the lower parts of the decoration, the upper end of the brooch is bifurcated with a slot for the pin, now incomplete, the bow has a medial ridge/moulding with both lateral edges/wings broken in antiquity, the bow is truncated at the lower end of the bow by a double transverse moulding wi…
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: SF-19E967
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of medieval copper alloy annular brooch, probably dating to c. AD 1250-1450. The brooch was originally circular in plan, but now only part of it remains.The brooch frame is decorated with double rows of small punched annulets in between collets. The collets contain the remains of a white paste which would have been used as a fixative for decorative pieces of coloured glass.The pin is missing.  Diameter: 35.41mm Width: 4.12mm Weight: 2.55g
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holme Hale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-237404
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy half-round side knob from an early medieval, Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch (c.AD 475-550). The object has a D-shaped based that is decorated with three bands of grooves. Underneath the base is a traverse groove an circular perforation through the centre of the knob. From the base, the body is notched to present a narrowed waist. At the end of the knob is a slightly flattened down with a vertivle notched incised from the centre downwards, a small circle is present at the tip of the dome. The object has a smooth light green patina. Dimensions: Length 15.9mm…
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 12th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D0333A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper-alloy annular brooch with most of the pin missing. The frame is oval, flat on the reverse and bevelled on the internal and external edges on the front. There is a constriction for the pin at one of the narrow ends and opposite this an externally-projecting approximately trefoil or T-shaped knop. This has two short opposing convex-edged and pointed lateral foils and a larger and longer central foil, perpendicular to these and parallel with the pin. It terminates in a rounded point shortly after a step-down in thickness from the front of a fraction of millimetre.  T…
Created on: Friday 2nd February 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-0078B7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman Knee brooch with the spring, the pin, the central part of the spring housing, the foot and all of the catchplate missing. A rather flimsy object. The breaks are fairly recent. Mackreth 2011 KNEE Br 1.b1. Weight 1.49g. Extant length 27mm. Width of head 9.5mm. 2md - 3rd century.  Finder's no. WNF2F6
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-FF985B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Slightly abraded lower end of the bow of a Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Harlow brooch with an ancient break. The cross-section is ovoid with a pair of median grooves and with a slight rounded swelling or knob at the foot. In the catchplate there is a triangular aperture along with a pin groove. Weight 2.31g. Extant length 23.7mm. Width at break 4.3mm. AD c.43 - c.75. Finder's no. WNF2F2
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-FB941D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Roman copper alloy Hod Hill brooch, the lower part of the bow narrowing from an old break past five transverse ribs and a plain and flat length before expanding slightly to a foot knob. The catchplate is almost complete. Weight 1.72g. Extant length 28.3mm. Width 8 - 2.2mm. AD c.43 - c.75. Finder's no. CF4/F38
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-FB51FD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Rearhook brooch in battered condition, Mackreth 2011 CD RH, with the pin, the spring, the rearhook, the greater part of both wings, the lower part of the D-sectioned bow and all of the catchplate missing. The breaks are old. Weight 2.37g. Extant length 18.2mm. AD c.43 - c.65. Finder's no. CF4/F35
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-FAF168
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Harlow brooch with the pin, half of the spring, the end of one wing, the lower part of the bow and all of the catchplate missing. The wings are plain. A median rib on the D-sectioned bow runs down to an ancient break and probably continued to the foot. Mackreth CD Ha 4.a. Weight 4.59g. Estimated wingspan 23mm. Extant length 23.3mm.  Finder's no. CF4/F31
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-FA84F9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Roman copper alloy Colchester Derivative Harlow brooch with the spring, the pin, part of the lower pierced lug and much of the catchplate missing. The wings are decorated with reels and grooves, and a pair of median grooves flanking a sunken wavy line runs from the top to the foot of the D-sectioned bow. Mackreth 2011 CD Ha 4.b. Weight 8.92g. Wingspan 23mm. Length 39.7mm. AD c.43 - c.75. Finder's no. CF4/F25
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-EAADB4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Pointed lower end of the bow with a solid catchplate of Late Iron Age to Early Roman copper alloy Colchester brooch. At the ancient break the cross-section is pointed oval but with three faintly defined facets on the front face. Weight 2.92g. Extant length 30.2mm. Width and thickness at break 4.8 and 3.1mm. AD c.20 - c.65. Finder's no. CF4/F7
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2024
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