Record ID: LEIC-5ADDCB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval florid cruciform ? brooch fragment, 29mm long, 27mm wide and 4mm thick. The brooch is in fair condition and weighs 10.80 It has a green and brown surface with cracking which suggests it may have been burnt? The brooch consists of a triangular shaped head plate with a curved upper surface. This sits above the start of a curved bow, now incomplete. The head plate possibly has raised decoration in the centre representing a human face? The reverse of the head plate has a vertical scar where a pin housing would have sat.
Created on: Monday 8th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melton Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-58BEC8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval copper alloy bow brooch fragment, 45mm long, 35mm wide and 4mm thick. The brooch is in fair condition and weighs 24.37grams. The surface patina is odd with green, brown and sooty corrosion, perhaps suggesting the object has been exposed to fire? The 'square' portion of the brooch is incomplete and appears to house the scar of a catchplate on its reveres, which would make it the 'flat' panel below the bow. It is decorated with a raised rectangular triple border which contains raised decoration which could represent a face? The curved bow is also decorated with rai…
Created on: Monday 8th December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melton Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-A351B9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval copper alloy small-long brooch, 40mm long, 21mm wide and 3mm thick. The object is in a fair but incomplete condition and weighs 7.46grams. The brooch is missing all the edges of the headplate and its foot. What is present is a sub-circular plate with the fainteset traces of a slightly raised plain rectangular area in its centre. This sits above a curved bow which rises from the plate and has a short diagonal notch in each upper corner. The curved section of the bow is plain and where it becomes flat there is a horizontal incised line, at this point the brooch has b…
Created on: Wednesday 5th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 24th February 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-8CDE92
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval copper alloy cross potent type, small-long brooch, 37mm long, 30mm wide and 8mm thick. The brooch is in fair condition and weighs 7.70grams. The brooch consists of a flat square head plate which is bounded at each side by three linear grooves running across its length. This central plate sits at the centre of a trefoil formed of three flat circular plates. Below this is a curved bow which is plain and has snapped off at the point where it would become flat and form the catchplate. On the reverse, behind the headplate, is a single semi-circular lug with iron staining …
Created on: Thursday 23rd October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 26th November 2014
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Record ID: LEIC-6554A7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval copper alloy saucer brooch, 45mm long, 35mm wide and 2.5mm thick. The brooch is in fair condition and weighs 12.70g. The brooch is incomplete, missing all of its raised edge and some of its flat surface. There are no original edges surviving and the breaks are all old, worn and corroded. The decoration is cast in fairly soft relief around a central circular flat boss surrounded by a concentric ridge. There are two bands of Style I decoration, separated by another concentric ridge. The inner band has three elements shaped like reversed figure-2s, alternating with two …
Created on: Thursday 9th October 2014
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-81BF61
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval silver penny of Eathelred II, Long cross type, Moneyer [LEO---] Leofwine, Leofman or Leofstan, York mint, N774, 997-1003.
Created on: Tuesday 16th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 26th February 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-C784B6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A plated contemporary imitation of an early medieval sceatta, probably based on either Series G, J (especially type 36) or L; Secondary Phase (c. 710-60). The coin is silver plated on a copper-alloy core.
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Leicestershire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-1E63A8
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval gold A-bracteate, 34mm long, 28mm wide and 1mm thick with a weight of 3.59 grams. The bracteate is incompletely preserved, the loop has been ripped off and about one third of the stamped outer zone on the upper right part is missing. The gold foil is heavily buckled with several tears. The lower right part has been folded which may have been intentional whilst the other damages appear to be post-depositional. The gold foil was surrounded with a beaded wire set along the edge. It is heavily abraded. Underneath the (missing) loop is a beaded gold wire attachment (but with…
Created on: Tuesday 13th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2022
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Record ID: LEIC-CA85D8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval silver penny of Aethelred II (978-1016), Last Small Cross type (N 777; bmc i), mint: uncertain, still indicates West Midlands, c.1009-17. The coin has lost all of its outer edge with no inscription surviving on obverse or reverse. This is most likely due to a fracturing of the coin around the edge of the outer circle, the weakest point on early medieval coins as opposed to clipping.
Created on: Thursday 13th February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 19th February 2014
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Record ID: LEIC-A55CB1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early early-medieval copper alloy disc brooch, 30 mm in diameter and 2mm thick (9mm thick at catchplate). It is in fair condition and weighs 12.37g. The brooch is flat and is decorated with an incised circular border, which has tiny punched dots on its outside, at least in parts. Some dots have broken through to the reverse to form holes. Inside this border it is decorated with four incised ring-and-dot motifs arranged in a square, with a further slightly larger example in the centre (but slightly off centre). This may have traces of iron staining in its larger circular centre. The re…
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-A43E83
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval (Viking) copper alloy trefoil brooch. 42mm long, 41mmm wide and 2mm thick. The brooch is in very good condition and weighs 12.88g. The brooch is flat and has three arms with rounded terminals. The brooch is decorated with a central triangle formed of two incised lines. Each arm of the brooch also has a double incised border which butts up to the central triangle. Inside this, each arm is decorated with a further linear border which contains a series of diagonally positioned sub-triangular 'nicks' running down each edge. This gives an appearance of a leaf motif. many of …
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th December 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-A30166
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval copper alloy disc brooch frontplate, decorated in the Jellinge style. 33mm in diameter, 2mm thick and weighing 6.63grams. The object is incomplete, missing about a quarter of its surface. It consists of an openwork, slightly domed plate which depicts an intertwined ribbon like beast. The animals body and a lappet emerging from its head are depicted as ribbon like bands, decorated with an incised line running along each edge. The head, which faces to the right and has a large circular eye, can be seen just to the left of the damaged area. It has a lappel emerging from th…
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2014
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Record ID: LEIC-A2A4A2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval cast lead disc brooch fragment in two joining pieces, 39mm in diameter, 2mm thick and weighing 12.95 grams. The brooch has a wide outer border, c.8mm wide, which is made up of a solid raised line which contains a series of short raised lines running to the objects edge. Inside this are further short raised lines running into the brooches centre, which has a large sub-spherical knop. The inner lines appear to be grouped in two and threes and are interspersed with a single sub-spherical knop (3 are present), placed close to the edge of the outer border. The reverse of …
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2014
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Record ID: LEIC-A26311
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval cast lead disc brooch, 37mm in diameter, 3mm thick and weighing 17.75grams. The brooch is slightly bent in places, giving it an irregular edge. It has a border made up of two lines of spherical pellets. Inside this border the brooch has a sub rectangular border made up of 8 sub-spherial knops, each of which are joined by two curving raised lines forming an elipse or 'petal' like motif. Inside this border is a cruciform pattern made up of a further four pairs of curved raised lines which run from the outer knops and converge onto a central sub sherical knop in the brooch…
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 12th February 2014
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Record ID: LEIC-A12430
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval cast lead disc brooch, 43mm in diameter, 3mm thick and weighing 38.46grams. The broochhas been bent across its centre and is decorated with a ladder like border consisiting of a raised edge with a raised line about 3mm inside the edge. This is filled with short, raised transverse lines. Inside this border the brooch has a pattern made up of four raised circles which overlap slightly, creating elipses. At each point that the circles over lap there is a raised spherical knop, one in the centre and one at each edge forming a cruciform shape. The inside of each circle has a…
Created on: Tuesday 11th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th February 2014
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Record ID: LEIC-734654
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) copper alloy harness fitting, 66mm long and 20mm wide witha weight of 17.3grams. The object consists of a a semi-circular sectioned bar which swells in the centre to form a central boss with a semi-spherical section. This has triangular protrusions at right angles to the main bar, which terminate in slightly rounded knops. At each end of the bar is a circular loop which also has triangular projections, three on each. The reverse of the object is probably flat. A parallel for this fitting is illustrated by David Williams in his Anglo-Scandinav…
Created on: Tuesday 10th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2013
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Record ID: LEIC-3E8245
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval silver sceat. Sub-group 4, series K. c.AD 720-40.
Created on: Tuesday 8th October 2013
Last updated: Saturday 30th November 2013
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Record ID: LEIC-3E6E91
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silver penny of Edward the Confessor (AD 1042-1066); Facing bust / small cross type (North 830; AD 1062-1065); mint: Wallingford; moneyer: Burgwine (BVREPINE). Diameter: 17.0mm, thickness: 0.1mm, weight: 1.01g The coin shows an obverse die duplicate with EMC 1011.0171.
Created on: Tuesday 8th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 30th April 2014
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Record ID: LEIC-9C4DA2
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) copper alloy stirrup strap mount. Length: 33mm, width: 27mm, thickness: 4mm, weight: 10.71grams. The mount is rectangular in form and cross section with part of a curving flange at its base and a slightly round, incomplete upper edge. It has seven circular holes in its body which surround three sub-rectangular, rounded protrusions which represent animal heads. One of these is flanked by a slight protrusion in the side edge, which should be echoed on the opposite side. It matches Williams class B, type 1, group 3 eg. 407, but is heavily worn and c…
Created on: Wednesday 18th September 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 5th November 2014
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Record ID: LEIC-9C3092
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete early medieval copper alloy cruciform brooch. The brooch is missing the upper part of its headplate which consists of a rectangular plate with sub circular side projections. The bow is over curved and the brooch has a small footplate with catchplate attached on the reverse. Length: 36.0mm, width: 31.0mm, thickness: 5.0mm, weight: 9.17g
Created on: Wednesday 18th September 2013
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2014
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