Record ID: FAHG-1BE680
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete early Anglo-Saxon cast saucer brooch, originally decorated with five running spirals in chip-carved relief; three of these now survive. In the centre is a circular relief ring, and around the edge is a ridge and then an upwards-curving shallow rim. On the reverse is an integrally cast lug, part either of the pin bar lug or the catch 5th or 6th century. Pair to FAHG-1BBCF6.
Created on: Friday 6th December 2013
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
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Record ID: FAHG-1BBCF6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon cast saucer brooch decorated with five running spirals in chip-carved relief. In the centre is a circular relief ring, and around the edge is a ridge and then an upwards-curving shallow rim, now missing in places. On the reverse is a cast ridge joining a pin bar lug at one end and a catch at the other; both look damaged and incomplete. 5th or 6th century. Pair to FAHG-1BE680.
Created on: Friday 6th December 2013
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
No spatial data available.

Record ID: FAHG-1AD586
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon button brooch of Avent and Evison's Class I, probably Class Ii. Only the centre of the brooch survives, with much of the rim missing. There is hair rather than a helmet, a continuously vertically ribbed crescent around the top of the face. Below the hair are two round pellet eyes, with a groove separating these from the hair; there are no brow ridges. A ridge runs down between the eyes to for the nose. A single squarish boss forms each cheek and between the lower cheeks, below the nose, are two curved blocks making mouth and chin. The curved mouth and chin give th…
Created on: Friday 6th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 17th December 2013
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Record ID: FAHG-7B3D73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy great square-headed brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date, complete with red enamel inlays on head, bow and foot, and with the remains of silver plates on the footplate. Ancient repair on the bow. The brooch has relief decoration in Salin's Style I, and the silver-and-gold colour scheme is known as the Bichrome Style. The brooch fits squarely within Hines's Group X, which is tentatively dated at present to the later part of his Phase 2 (in calendar years, perhaps c. 525-c. 550 AD; Hines in Hunn et al. 1994, 129). Headplate The headplate has a rectangular inner pan…
Created on: Wednesday 9th September 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 10th May 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: FAHG-858AD2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of foot from a florid cruciform brooch, partly distorted by heat. The fragment consists of a decorated triangular panel with traces of an undecorated rectangular terminal below, which has been torn away; the tear has bent the metal before breaking, and the break is now a little worn. The rectangular terminal is separated from the triangular panel by a line of beading. The triangular panel has a relief border, and is filled with Style I decoration, now worn and hence hard to decipher. There may be a single bird, with curly beak filling the apex at the top, body in the centr…
Created on: Thursday 9th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North-west Essex', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAHG-52BAA5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy S-shaped brooch, small and with relatively simple decoration. The brooch is relatively flat, and solid with no perforations or openwork. It is decorated with two grooves each close to an edge, resulting in a central broad flat-topped ridge flanked by a narrower ridge to either side. At each end is an animal head seen in profile, with a circular groove forming an eye and an open beak or mouth. The lower jaw is curled backwards, and the upper jaw is long and gently curving upwards to meet the edge of the central straight part of the S. One of the heads is very slightly …
Created on: Friday 2nd July 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SF-407812
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy small-long brooch, complete apart from the two side knobs. The headplate is basically rectangular, although to either side of each knob the edges are slightly concave. The only decoration consists of neatly made grooves at the base of each knob; there are four at the base of the surviving top knob, which is semi-circular. Both side knobs are missing (worn breaks), probably due to the grooves forming a weak point. On the reverse of the headplate is a single pin lug with extensive remains of the iron bar and spring. The bow has a flat panel at the top and bottom; the top…
Created on: Thursday 3rd July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9203
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Remains of an extremely corroded flat disc brooch. It has relief decoration consisting of a central relief lozenge with a sunken circle in the middle. Each corner of the lozenge is extended to form double strands which loosely knot around themselves. On the reverse is a broken transverse pin lug and a broken catchplate. All of the edges are lost, with the possible exception of a short length of edge near the pin lug; the maximum surviving diameter is 28 mm. Some surface survives on the reverse, but the front is extremely badly corroded. The knots seem neatly made and symmetrical, alth…
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GLEMSFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9155
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cruciform brooch made from copper alloy, now missing its foot (fresh break). The headplate is small and pentagonal, having a straight lower edge but cutaway corners on the upper edge. It is decorated with a double-strand engraved saltire and on the reverse has a single pin bar lug with extensive traces of the iron spring. The upper knob is full-round and has a double collar below; the side knobs are simple and flattish with no collars. None of the knobs is particularly well made. The bow is narrow (only 6 mm wide) but quite long and highly arched. It begins with an undecorated fl…
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MILDENHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9041
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Corroded small-long brooch made from copper alloy. The head is rectangular, measuring 20 mm wide by 18 mm long, and is decorated with a double row of punchmarks around three edges. Each punchmark consists of a crescent around a dot, and may have been made by holding a ring-and-dot punch at an angle. There is a just-discernable engraved line between the two rows, and the punchmarks each have their straight edge towards this groove. On the reverse of the head is a single pin bar lug now blocked with iron corrosion. The lower edge of the head has no decoration, and the bow springs from…
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SAHAM TONEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8939
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy small-long or cruciform brooch. The headplate is rectangular (34 x 25 mm) and has a small semi-circular cut-out on both top and bottom edges near to each corner. The central panel and wings are not distinguished by a change in thickness, but only by a double line of triangular stamps (set base to base) which are obscured by corrosion on one side. The top knob and both side knobs are missing; below the centre of the top edge is a separate copper-alloy rivet which retains a scrap of copper-alloy sheet, and this may represent an attempt to replace a top knob missing in antiq…
Created on: Wednesday 17th July 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 24th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'TUDDENHAM ST MARTIN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8874
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Head and stub of bow from a copper-alloy cruciform brooch. The headplate is small, with a raised central panel and wide wings. Apart from a hint of double vertical line decoration down the outer edge of one wing, no decoration is visible on the headplate. The three half-round knobs all survive, cast in one with the headplate. They are fairly flat, and simply shaped with a narrowed waist below a rounded terminal. Each one is flat, not hollowed, on the reverse. The reverse of the headplate has a single pin bar lug with extensive remains of the iron pin bar and spring. What remains of th…
Created on: Monday 1st July 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 19th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8689
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy small-long brooch. The head has a squarish central headplate and three knobs, all of which are the same thickness. The top knob is rectangular and the two side knobs are semi-circular with a small indentation in the centre of the edge; all are separated from the headplate by a pair of semi-circular cut-outs. The headplate is outlined with three rows of punchmarks, which are now obscured by wear or dirt but which seem to be crescents. On the reverse of the head is a single pin bar lug with traces of iron corrosion around it. The bow has a flat panel at top and bottom, n…
Created on: Monday 10th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8702
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Most of foot and stub of bow from a square-headed brooch of Hines's Group XIX. Too little of the bow survives to be certain as to its form or decoration; the break here seems slightly more recent than the breaks elsewhere. The footplate upper borders are extended into lappets, one long and round-ended and the other worn or broken to a stub; there is no trace of decoration on either. The side lobes are also worn, and are now roughly rectangular with downward projections on their lower corners. The terminal lobe, which by comparison with other brooches in this group should have flare…
Created on: Monday 10th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8505
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small and battered copper-alloy ansate brooch. One end, together with the catchplate, is missing. The other end is irregularly rounded and probably very worn; on the reverse is a double pin bar lug which is broken through both lugs. There does not appear to be any decoration at the angle between this end and the bow, although there is a transverse notched ridge at the highest part of the bow. The break comes at the other end of the top of the bow; it is patinated but completely unworn, so probably quite recent. The surviving dimensions are 24 x 6.5 mm, and the original length was prob…
Created on: Thursday 2nd May 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 12th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8295
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of foot from a copper-alloy cruciform brooch, broken at both ends. At the top there is a tiny stub of a flat panel, on the reverse of which is a stub of catchplate. A transverse moulding and a transverse groove come next, and here the brooch is D-shaped in cross-section. Below these is a long horse-head terminal, with prominent conical eyes and then a long nose which is facetted on the upper surface and slightly hollowed on the reverse. The centre of the nose is decorated with tiny transverse nicks across the ridge. Two large oval nostrils come next, both flat and undecora…
Created on: Friday 15th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'RUSHBROOKE WITH ROUGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8278
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete, but worn and corroded, small-long brooch made from copper alloy. The headplate is almost square, 21 x 23.5 mm, but is longer top-to-bottom than side-to-side. The corners are rounded and there are two converging oblique nicks in each side edge, close to the corners. There are also traces of a border of dots around the top and side edges, but no other decoration survives. On the reverse of the headplate is a single pin bar lug with the corroded remains of an iron spring. There is a slight groove forming a rectangle around where the bow springs from the headplate; as the bow …
Created on: Friday 8th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HEMINGSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8237
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Headplate from a copper-alloy cruciform brooch. Both the central panel and the wings are nearly rectangular, the central panel flaring slightly downwards and the wings flaring slightly upwards. The wings have a stamped border around three sides; each stamp consists of a V shape with a part-circle around. The slightly raised central panel has a border of the same stamps down each edge. At the top of the central panel is a half-round top knob cast in one piece with the headplate; it is fairly flat and has a central waist with a groove above and below and a moulded ridge across the to…
Created on: Monday 4th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LACKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8200
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy small-long brooch. The end of the foot is missing and the brooch is very abraded. The headplate was probably originally rectangular, with three mushroom-shaped knobs formed by taking two semi-circular cut-outs from the base of semi-circular projections. There is a double groove across the base of each knob, and most of the edges have gone so that no further decoration (such as stamped borders) survives. The headplate has a high polish in between the corrosion bubbles. On the reverse is a single pin bar lug, blocked with iron corrosion and with patches of corrosion fro…
Created on: Monday 25th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MARTLESHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8003
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete head and fragment of bow from a copper-alloy small-long brooch. The head is very worn and all of the edges may be fragmentary. It has a a rectangular plate now measuring c. 19 x 17 mm, and three flat semi-circular 'knobs' sitting on narrow waists. In the centre of the headplate is a very slightly raised area 10 mm wide and 11 mm long, which runs down to the start of the bow. There is no other visible decoration on the head, which has a surviving width of 34 mm. On the reverse is a double pin bar lug with the rusted iron pin bar and spring still in position. The bow beg…
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PETTISTREE', grid reference and parish protected.