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Brooches
Other shaped brooches without stones
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Sexfoil
shaped brooches
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 Sexfoil
Brooch
with fleur-de-lis
BR01
Object: Ring brooch
Culture: Medieval. 1250-1350
Area of Origin: Normandy, France
Material: Silver, gold gilding
Size: 39.2mm x 2.4mm
Weight: 6.5 grams
Notes: This example is bold, large and silver-gilt. The
terminals are fleur shaped having significance with the emblem
of the Virgin Mary. A singular row of raised circles is set in
between the raised borders around the brooch which is sexfoil
shaped. The brooch is intact and in excellent condition. The pin
is complete and moves freely.
The brooch was found in France
by a metal detector user who lives in Saint-Lo in Normandy, Northern
France. It is dated at the same time of Edward the Black Prince
and Richard II.
Similar to: As seen on the sculpture representing the Synagogue,
Bamburg Cathedral, Germany.
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Octofoil shaped brooches
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 Octofoil
brooch
with arches
BR03
Object: Annular Brooch
Culture: Medieval
Area of Origin: Canterbury, Kent. England
Material:
Size: 40mm diameter
Weight: 10.18 grams
Notes: 8 arched segments with small points. Pin is complete
and moves freely.
ex-Winters Collection. Found
near Canterbury, Kent, UK in 1976.
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Quatrefoil
shaped brooches
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 Quatrefoil
Brooch
with four leaves
BR02
Object: Ring brooch
Culture: Medieval. 14th century
Area of Origin: poss Yorkshire, England
Material: Bronze
Size: 25mm x 26mm
Weight: 4.58 grams
Notes: Brooch is quatrefoil shaped with four leaves radiating.
Original pin is present and moves freely. Seller bought this brooch
in a group with other items from Yorkshire, but is uncertain if
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 Quatrefoil
Brooch
with flowers
BR10
Object: Quatrefoil brooch
Culture: Medieval. 14th-15th century
Area of Origin: Kent, England
Material: Bronze
Size: 28mm x 28mm
Weight: 4.18 grams
Notes: Brooch is quatrefoil shaped with four four-petalled
flowers on each lobe. A singular row of raised circles joins the
flowers. The original pin is present and moves freely. Cast construction.
The brooch is in tact and in good condition. |
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 Quatrefoil
brooch
with punched decoration
BR04
Object: Quatrefoil
brooch
Culture: Medieval. 13th-15th century
Area of Origin: Thretford, Norfolk, UK
Material: Bronze
Size: 30mm diameter
Weight: 2.84 grams
Notes: Brooch has a raised face with punched circular decoration.
Pin is absent.
Ex-Winters Collection.Found
near Thretford, Norfolk, UK in 1988.
Similar to: Similar
frame and composition to MoL Egan & Pritchard, Dress Accessories,
Item No 1342, found Billingsgate Lorry Park, London, with the
exception of citcular decoration where bands are noted on Item
1342.
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Lozenge
shaped brooches
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 Lozenge
brooch
with knops
BR05
Object: Ring brooch
Culture: Medieval. 13th-15th century
Area of Origin: UK.
Material: Bronze
Size: 37mm diameter
Weight: 2.47 grams
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Notes: Lozenge-shaped ring brooch with single row of circular
punched decoration. Each point of the lozenge terminates in a
knop and three etched lines. Pin is complete and working.
Ex-Winters Collection.
Similar to: Sawicki,
Medieval Dress Accessories From Nowy Targ Square in Wroclaw Catalogue
of finds, Image 448.
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 Lozenge
brooch
with trefoil knops
BR11
Object: Brooch
Culture: Medieval
Country of Origin: France
Material: Copper alloy
Size: 33mm x 36mm
Weight: 4.16 grams
Notes: Lozenge shaped brooch frame with trefoil knobs on each
corner. A vertical bar is present which houses the pin, which
is also present and moves freely. The frame has two rows of raised
circles on each of the four sides.
Similar to: Similar
frame style to Sawicki, Medieval Dress Accessories From Nowy Targ
Square in Wroclaw Catalogue of finds, Image 448.
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 Lozenge
brooch
with wire pin
BR06
Object: Lozenge brooch
Culture: Medieval. 13th-15th century
Country of Origin: England
Material: Bronze
Size: 30mm diameter
Weight: 3.64 grams
Notes: Circular punched decoration. Wire pin is complete
and moves freely although due to nature of not matching the brooch,
may be a replacement pin.
ex-Winters Collection.
Similar to: Sawicki,
Medieval Dress Accessories From Nowy Targ Square in Wroclaw Catalogue
of finds, Image 453..
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 Lozenge
brooch
with etchings
BR08
Object: Lozenge brooch
Culture: Medieval, 14th century
Country of Origin: England
Material: Bronze
Size: 27mm diameter
Weight: 2.45 grams
Notes: Etched decoration of no specific design. Pin is
complete and moves freely. The structure of the pin indicated
that these etchings may be the back of the brooch and therefore
may be not deliberate markings but those caused when in situ or
on collection.
ex-Winters Collection.
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 Lozenge
brooch
with 12 dimples
BR07
Object: Lozenge brooch
Culture: Medieval. 13th-15th century
Country of Origin: England
Material: Bronze
Size: 22mm diameter
Weight: 2.91 grams
Notes: ex-Winters Collection. 12 dimples, one of which houses
the piercing for the pin. Pin is bent but complete and moves freely.
The dimples show no trace of any adhesive residue, but may have
had glass stones set into them, although the angle of them suggests
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 Lozenge
brooch
with wrigglework
BR12
Object: Brooch
Culture: Medieval
Country of Origin: England
Material: Copper alloy
Size: 22mm x 21mm
Weight: 0.58 grams
Notes: Extremely light-weight trapezoid brooch frame. There
is a singular piercing for a pin, which is absent. The sides are
angled downwards and have a singular groove running around the
circumference and a corresponding line of wrigglework.
Sold as bronze, but copper alloy is suspected.
Similar to:
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Square
shaped brooches
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 Square
Brooch
with circles
BR09
Object: Square brooch
Culture: Medieval. 13th-15th century
Country of Origin: England. UK.
Material: Bronze
Size: 15mm diameter
Weight: 1.88 grams
Notes: Brooch is complete and intact. Square shaped frame
with bevelled edges. One row of circular punched decoration. Pin
is complete and moves freely.
ex-Winters Collection.
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