Record ID: PAS-F75EA1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Saxon penny of Baldred, king of kent 823 - 825 AD and is a non portrait issue with the moneyer OBA. This coin a previously unrecorded variant of north 215 with cross fourchee instead of the usual cross moiline.
Created on: Thursday 22nd July 2004
Last updated: Monday 8th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Warwickshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-2B1E44
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Worn biconical spacer bead from a necklace, made from a single coiled length of beaded wire, the ends tapering and left unbeaded. This singleton bead belongs to a growing family of necklace components, made in similar style, that came into fashion in the 7th century. It is best compared to the spacer beads on the necklace from Desborough, Northamptonshire (L Webster and J Backhouse, The Making of England, Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture, AD 600-900 (London, 1991), cat. no.13), which dates from the second half of the 7th century. The Desborough necklace is strung with a small, centrally …
Created on: Monday 14th July 2003
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rowington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-266454
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Triangular gold pendant with a facetted garnet inlay, the setting with a beaded border within simple margins. At the top, the scars and soldering points of a lost loop. The singleton Bidford on Avon pendant belongs to a growing family of necklace components, all made in similar style, that came into fashion in the 7th century. It can be compared, for example, to cabochon garnet pendants on the necklace from Desborough, Northamptonshire (L Webster and J Backhouse, The Making of England. Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture, AD 600-900 (London, 1991), p. 28, cat. no.13). This necklace date…
Created on: Monday 14th July 2003
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bidford on Avon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-D681D8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold Finger-ring with gold cloisonne enamel bezel, filigree and granules. The hoop is a flat band of metal which expands to form a back-plate for the bezel and for the decoration at the shoulder. There is marked median line on the band as though it had been forged by folding in the edges of a strip. Although slightly damaged the ring appears to be D-shaped in plan and on each shoulder carries a deep strip of gold defining a triangular field filled with large granules of gold, several of which are missing. This ornament is finished by further granules at the outer ends of the strips. It…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PAS-D41548
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold setting from the centre of a plated disc brooch or composite brooch. The setting, which is heavily worn and damaged, consists of a crumpled set of cell walls, within a circular frame. The frame is encircled by a collar made up of two strands of beaded filigree wire flanking a flattened Z-twisted beaded filigree rope. The central field, now empty of its settings, contains the remains of a single cruciform cell with short dividing walls radiating from it to the circular retaining wall. Discussion: Although the setting is badly damaged, the elements of its design can be reconst…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bidford on Avon', grid reference and parish protected.