TREASURE ANNU AL REPORT 2005/6 - Portable Antiquities Scheme

323. Alby Area, Norfolk:
medieval gold circular brooch (2006 T507)
Date: 13th century
Discovery: Found by Mr M Martin while metaldetecting
in August 2006.
Description: A flat-sectioned brooch with beading
around inside and outside edge and two oval collets
tapering towards top, one containing a red-purple
stone, probably a garnet. An engraved inscription
between the lines of beading reads:
+ IE•S’: / VI•ICI / EN LIV / DAMI (I am here in the
place of a friend). The frame is constricted for the pin
with raised bifurcated moulding on either side, and
a quatrefoil pin rest. The pin is of silver with traces
of gilding and hexagonal in section, the tip missing.
This piece is similar to a less elaborate example from
Billingsgate, London (Egan and Pritchard 2002, fig. 160,
no. 1309). External diameter: 18–22mm.
Disposition: Norwich Castle Museum hopes to acquire.
E DARCH
324. Radley, oxfordshire:
medieval silver-gilt circular brooch (2006 T94)
Date: 13th century
Discovery: Found by Mr K Gibley while metaldetecting
in January 2006.
Description: The circular frame has a circular crosssection
and is undecorated. The pin has been bent
around the frame forming an incomplete loop for
attachment, and is decorated with three incised
transverse lines just below the attachment loop.
Diameter: 13.2mm; weight: 1.07g.
Disposition: Oxfordshire Museums Service hopes
to acquire.
K SUTTON
325. West Clandon, surrey:
medieval silver brooch fragment (2005 T188)
Date: 13th century
Discovery: Found by Mr C Lacey while metal-detecting
in 1999.
Description: A fragment from a Medieval brooch. The
flat surface (reverse) is inscribed with: + A +. This most
probably comprises part of a full inscription which
would have read A G L A and would have been arranged
at equal distances around the frame of the brooch. The
full inscription signifies Atha Gebri Lielan Adonai (thou
art mighty forever, O Lord) and was a popular charm
against fever in the Medieval period.
Disposition: Guildford Museum.
J P ROBINSON
326. Winterbourne bassett, Wiltshire:
medieval silver-gilt circular brooch (2005 T258)
Date: 13th century
Discovery: Found by Mr J Tree while metal-detecting in
April 2005.
Description: A silver-gilt annular brooch with a flat
underside and moulded decoration to the opposite
(upper) side. The pin is intact. The brooch is adorned
with 8 moulded knops, now rather worn, and possibly
originally cross-hatched, although there is too much
wear to be certain. One knop appears to have cut
decoration, similar to the arm of a Lombardic cross.
The pin is D-shaped in section and curls around the
frame between knops 8 and 1, resting between 4 and 5,
deliberately bent at the point. Diameter: 14mm;
weight: 0.91g.
Disposition: Wiltshire Heritage Museum.
K HINDS
327. Lupton Area, Cumbria:
medieval silver circular brooch (2006 T264)
Date: 13th–early 14th century
Discovery: Found by Ms C Handley while metaldetecting
in April 2006.
Description: A silver brooch consisting of a circular
frame with grooved decoration at three equidistant
points. The pin has broken away and survives in two
fragments, the smaller forming part of the loop
attachment. The pin has a circular collar and tapers to a
point. Diameter: 21mm.
Disposition: Kendal Museum hopes to acquire.
J P ROBINSON
328. Cotwolds Area, Gloucestershire:
medieval silver-gilt circular brooch (2006 T135)
Date: Late 13th–early 14th century
Discovery: Found by Mr R Marsland while metaldetecting
in September 2005.
Description: A Medieval brooch, slightly distorted,
consisting of a wire hoop with four applied flowers.
Between each flower the wire is alternately left
plain or twisted. The pin is plain and flat with a plain
rectangular collar at its highest point, close to the loop.
Gilding survives in the deepest recesses of the flowers
and in those of the twisted wire.
Diameter: 26mm approx.
Disposition: Stroud Museum hopes to acquire.
J P ROBINSON
329. saintbury, Gloucestershire:
medieval silver-gilt brooch (2006 T343)
Date: Late 13th–early 14th century
Discovery: Found by Mr M Pugh while metal-detecting
in June 2006.
Description: A Medieval brooch, consisting of four flat
lozenges, soldered at equidistant intervals to a hoop
which is intermittently flat and twisted at opposite
points between pairs of the lozenges. Each lozenge is
stamped with a motif resembling four leaves within a
double border. The brooch is broken into three parts,
and the pin is missing. Reconstructed diameter: 35mm.
Disposition: Generously donated by the finder and
landowner to Corinium Museum, Cirencester.
J P ROBINSON
330. Walterstone, herefordshire:
medieval silver circular brooch (2006 T28)
Date: 13th–14th century
Discovery: Found by Mr I Davies while metal-detecting
in about 2000.
Description: The distorted hoop is of circular section,
with decoration comprising three zones of incised
transverse markings separated by plain zones. The rear
has less decoration of three transverse marks, restricted
to the areas which are plain on the front of hoop.
The hoop is without a restriction for the pin, which is
attached by an overlapping ring of soldered sheet silver,
decorated with further single incised lines. Dimensions:
26.5 x 15.2mm; weight: 2.3g.
Disposition: Hereford Museum.
M LODWICK
331. Godshill, Isle of Wight:
medieval gold circular brooch (2006 T259)
Date: 13th–14th century
Discovery: Found by Mr A Hall while metal-detecting
in May 2006.
Description: A small Medieval gold circular brooch with
a constriction to hold the pin. The frame, now distorted,
is flat at the front and slightly convex at the rear. The
pin is oval in cross-section and has a small collar near
the loop. On the front of the pin, close to the tip, is
a small transverse groove and on the underside, the
pin-tip is undercut. An inscription with a cross potent
between each letter on the front of the frame reads: +
A + G + L + A. The letters represent a Latinised version
of a Hebrew phrase, Atha Gebri Leilan Adonai, meaning
‘Thou are mighty forever O Lord’. During the Middle
Ages these words were considered
to be a powerful charm against fever.
Diameter: 20mm; weight: 1.87g.
Disposition: Isle of Wight Museum Service had hoped
to acquire but withdrew; returned to finder.
F BASFORD
332. oswestry, shropshire:
medieval silver brooch (2006 T429)
Date: 13th–14th century
Discovery: Found by Mr K Constantine while metaldetecting
in September 2006.
Description: A Medieval brooch, of miniature size,
made from a flattened hoop of metal. The frame is
decorated with incised zigzags, which occasionally
overlap. The pin is secured by a loop and is roughly
sword-shaped. Diameter: 15mm.
Disposition: Shropshire County Museums Service.
J P ROBINSON
333. Diss area, suffolk:
medieval silver circular brooch (2006 T603)
Date: 13th–14th century
Discovery: Found by Mr J French while metal-detecting
in November 2006.
Description: A complete silver brooch with pin
constriction and pin intact. The frame is circular with
a circular cross-section; it has three evenly spaced
globular knobs projecting from it, each decorated
with circular punch marks. Where the loop of the pin
joins the shaft there is another globular knob, again
decorated with circular punch marks. External diameter:
22.9mm.
Discussion: For a similar brooch see Great Finborough,
Suffolk (Treasure Annual Report 2001, no. 88) with the
more common four globular knobs on the frame, rather
than three as seen here.
Disposition: Diss Museum.
F MINTER
334. Reigate, surrey:
medieval silver-gilt brooch frame (2006 T492)
Date: Late 13th–early 14th century
Discovery: Found by Mr M Savage while metaldetecting
in September 2006.
Description: The brooch, much distorted, is punctuated
at regular intervals by four spheres, each of which is
punched with small, circular marks. The wire hoop has
come apart at one of the junctions where it meets a
sphere. The pin is missing. Length: 35mm; width: 30mm.
Disposition: Guildford Museum.
J P ROBINSON
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