Record ID: NLM-8C621C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch fragment. Cast concavo-convex hollow backed side or top knob from an Early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. A hemispherical or half round terminal with two deep moulded grooves, and with a rib between and after the grooves. Incised decoration comprises a finely incised line at the inner end of the terminal, and similar paired lines on the ribs. A sub-rectangular bevelled tab and a probably drilled fixing hole relate to the attachment of the knob to the head of the brooch; the outer end bears two rust spots and a pinhole within suggesting the loss of an iron fixing pin…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 9th March 2021
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Record ID: SUR-8F4A0C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
A penny of Eadgar, AD959-975 (EMC 2014.0296); parts of the circumference are missing in two areas. The obverse has been gilded. The edge of a small circular hole survives in the edges of one of the breaks which, together with the gilding, suggests that the coin was converted into a brooch, the hole being one of two used to attach a pin. The coin is of a previously unrecorded type. In view of the missing portions the best guess is that the obverse would originally have read EA / DG / AR / REX (in a design reminiscent of the Luda penny of Alfred); it would fit in with other revival…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 16th January 2020
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Record ID: WILT-8F6FB6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver early medieval penny of Edward the Confessor dating to the period AD 1044 - 1046. Small cross pattee on reverse. Mint of London. Cf. North, Vol. I, p. 140, no. 816.
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 7th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-8F7EEC
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Badly distorted Late Saxon copper alloy finger ring. The round-sectioned hoop tapers to pointed terminals which would have been overlapping. This type of ring was widespread in East Anglia, cf. SF-313804, and Goodall, A.R. in Rogerson and Dallas 1984, 69, fig. 110, nos. 17-22. Maximum diameter of cross-section 2.5mm. The original diameter of the whole cannot be estimated but the unwrapped length of hoop is c.60mm. c.900 - c.1066.
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th November 2014
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Record ID: NMS-8C1F7B
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon copper alloy pin, most of the shank missing. The head is biconical with a conical top and medial band. Rogers, N. in Evans and Loveluck 2009, Type 320. Diameter 7.5mm (shank diameter 1.2mm). c.720 - c.900.
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th November 2014
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