Record ID: NLM-4D93E9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy or base silver brooch. Cast ansate brooch with lozenge-shaped terminals with corner knops and flat central rhomboid panels [one terminal mostly lost], and a central keeled concavo-convex mid bow which confers a D-shaped profile. Eight relatively large ring and dot are symmetrically distributed across the bow [four] and terminals [the rest, of an inferred total of ten]. Paired U-shaped lugs behind one terminal represent a pin seat and catch plate remains behind the other. The metal has a greyish tint which may point to the use of a tin-rich alloy or base silver. The an…
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-1FB208
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval silver Carolingian denier of Charles the Bald (AD 840-77) or later, monogram/METVLLO type dating from the AD 860s-c.925, mint: Melle, France. Weight 0.9g, Diam 20.1 x 11.0mm. Ref: Coupland 2015: 70, 75. The coin is well-struck and clear although only approximately half of the coin survives, the break jagged irregular with the centre and part of the rim is missing. The surface is a dull silver colour.   Obverse: cross pattee within solid inner circle.  Legend: [CAR(O)L]VS REX F[R] Reverse: monogram within solid inner circle. L…
Created on: Monday 13th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-55DE99
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch fragment. One end of an Ansate brooch, circular plate with four drilled ring-dots. Very corroded. Weetch Type 2. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 700-800 Length: 19.9mm, Width: 12.5mm, Thickness: 3.8mm, Weight: 1.76gms
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-7BF55D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Green patinated copper alloy brooch. Cast ansate brooch, Weetch type 13. Ansate brooch, of local production, with rectangular terminals and trapezoid mid bow, both longitudinally fluted. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 700-1000. Length: 44.4mm, Width: 11.3mm, Thickness: (?): 13.8mm, Weight: 7.83gms
Created on: Monday 31st July 2023
Last updated: Monday 31st July 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-54B013
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Green copper alloy brooch. Ansate brooch, both terminal plates circular, drilled ring-dot, continental/frankish import, Weetch Type 2. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 700-1000 Length: 50mm, Width: 16.6mm, Thickness: 5mm, Weight: 12.96gms
Created on: Wednesday 5th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 5th July 2023
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-A7A571
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval Merovingian gold tremissis of the 'mint-and-moneyer'/'national' series dating to c.580-670, mint: possibly Aoivis (Gif, Île-de-France); moneyer: uncertain ([  ]VDOFRIDVS?]. Refs: cf. de Belfort 1892 no.232; Prou 1892 no. 850 for mint. The coin is of uncertain mint place or moneyer. The coins obverse appear to read AOIVIS VICO FIT[  ] (OI ligated?) paralleled by de Belfort 232 and Prou 850 both reading AOIVIS FIT. The moneyer's name is partially struck off the flan making its reading difficult with the first five lett…
Created on: Thursday 27th April 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th May 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-F25943
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early-medieval early silver penny (sceat) of Secondary Phase Series G (type 3a) dating to c.AD715-25/30, mint: Quentovic, France (probably). Ref: Gannon 2013: p. 112-3. The coin is worn and badly chipped.  Diameter: 11.61 mm; Thickness: 1.79 mm; Weight: 0.88g
Created on: Wednesday 1st March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 26th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Horncastle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-B5A635
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) Merovingian gold tremissis, minted at Nantes (c. AD 560-c. 585 AD). MEC 460; Belfort 3094; Depeyrot type 3-2E. Refs: Belfort 1892: p. 401; Grierson and Blackburn 1986: pl. 22 (no. 460); Depeyrot 1998. Obverse: left-facing bust, inscription possibly reading CN / II [  ] Reverse: Victory advancing left; IVIO / N
Created on: Tuesday 14th February 2023
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-0EB7C3
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  A complete gold coin pendant made using an early-medieval solidus of Chlothar II (AD 584–629) struck in Marseille, dating to the period c.AD 613–29 to which a piece of gold has been soldered to form a loop. The loop made of a rectangular gold tab (c.4.9mm) wide that has five longitudinal ribs. This folds over 190 degrees to form a loop. This is mostly complete but has been squashed slightly causing a crack to appear between two of the ribs. The details of the coin are as follows: Solidus of Chlothar II (584–629), obverse cf. Belfort 2466, reverse…
Created on: Monday 6th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Middle Aston CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-8A9E47
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval continental (Frankish) copper-alloy brooch, dating to c.AD 600 - 700. The brooch is sub-circular with four projecting circular roundels, it is rectangular in section. The front of the brooch is decorated with five projecting circular roundels, four are at the outer edge, evenly spaced at 12, 3, 6 and 9 o'clock. The fifth is in the centre. Each of these are decorated in the centre with a ring and dot motif. Surrounding the central roundel are three concentric rings, the outer and inner consist plain moulded lines, the m…
Created on: Wednesday 7th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 13th September 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charnwood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-BDB0B7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete early medieval Merovingian gold tremissis, 'mint and moneyer' or 'National Series' broadly dating c.AD580-670 although this coin may date c.620-640, mint unknown but probably Austrasia/Frisia (roughly encompassing parts of NE France, N Germany and the Low Countries), cf. Belfort nos 3016, 3029-32, MEC1, nos 510-11. Refs: Belfort 1892: 380, 383; Grierson and Blackburn 1986: 125, pl. 24. The coin was struck on a small flan with the inscription only partially visible owing to the die being larger than the flan. Diameter: 11.14 mm; Thickness: 1.37 mm; Weight: 1.22g …
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 26th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-C0C27C
Object type: RELIQUARY
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold reliquary. A lozenge-shaped box of composite construction with rich ornate decoration rendered by an applied combination of fine twisted gold strips and spherical gold granules of two sizes [of diameters 1.5mm and 1mm] attached to a plain but roughly textured plate. The sides of the box are of plain smooth gold sheet and it is closed by a plain sheet metal back plate bordered by a further cabled wire. The back borders appear to have been run along the corners of the rhomboid as single strands from the front, though now absent entirely from one of the four corners. There are three…
Created on: Tuesday 5th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winteringham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-7D3C2C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Continental, Frankish, cast copper-alloy gilded radiate-headed brooch dating to the Early Medieval period (c. AD 500-600). The head consists of a flat oval plate with raised border that is damaged around the edges. Trefoil-shaped terminals project either side. The face of the plate has moulded decoration in the form of a schematic stylized face. Two chevrons form the brow. Below this are eyes of two sets of outwardly pointed concentric triangles divided by a vertical rectangle as a nose. Under each eye is a sub-triangular plate forming arched cheeks, with a transver…
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-8F7B16
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete gilded silver and garnet cloisonné mount dating of early medieval date (c. 500–550 CE). Description: The object is circular in plan with a thickly-beaded collar, from which raises a central setting divided into four cells. Two opposing cells are pointed oval in shape, created by crescent-shaped strips of silver. These are joined by a single strip of silver to create the other two opposing cells. Each cell is inlaid with a single red-coloured material, presumably garnet. Three of these inlays are orange-red while the other is pink-red. The object’s…
Created on: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 19th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Littlebourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-4E4CF4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Solihull
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval gold quasi-Imperial Provençal-type tremissis in the name of Justin II (565-78) dating to c. AD 580-615, mint: probably Sisteron (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France). Ref: Lafaurie 1959: 199-200, no. 7 (see plate XI, no. 7); Grierson and Blackburn 1986: 129-30. The coin is paralleled by a tremissis found in a hoard at Escharen (Netherlands; Lafaurie 1959, no. 7) and attributed to Justin II, the mint signature SE most likely attributable to Sisteron. Grierson and Blackburn (1986, 129-30) argue that the reverse type seen on quasi-Imperial coinage comprising a cross-…
Created on: Wednesday 18th November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 15th December 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-BE8DC8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early-medieval gold tremissis of the Merovingian ‘national' or 'mint-and-moneyer' series’ tremissis dating to c.AD 580-670, mint: Metz, moneyer: Ansolaldus (Belfort 2924). ref: de Belfort 1892: p.355. The coin is pierced with a probably drilled hole of diameter 1.6mm at 3 O’clock obverse. Obverse description: Bust diademed and cuirassed right. Obverse inscription: METTIS CIVETATI * Reverse description: plain cross in wreath; V C[reversed] in upper angles; plain initial cross. Reverse inscription: +ANSOALDVS M[O]NET, piercing through O Diameter: …
Created on: Friday 30th October 2020
Last updated: Monday 9th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roxby cum Risby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-1C2E42
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete early-medieval Merovingian gold tremissis, late psuedo-Imperial or National Coinage, probably minted at Cirilia (Aveyron), Rodez (France), c. AD 560-585. The coin is comparable to others listed from Cirilia and Rodez (especially Prou 1910-11; Belfort 1509, 1570; Depeyrot Rodez 3-2A). Refs: Prou 1892: 395; Belfort 1892: 428, 445; Depeyrot: 119 (vol IV).
Created on: Thursday 24th October 2019
Last updated: Thursday 5th December 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-3A74DD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval gold Merovingian tremissis of the 'National' Coinage (c.AD 580-670), uncertain mint and moneyer, pierced for suspension. Obverse description: Right-facing bare-headed bust with large annulet eye and pointed chin. Neck and drapery Obverse inscription: VN[...]VS Reverse description: Cross with forked base within a beaded circle Reverse inscription: V Dimensions: Diameter: 10.63 mm; Thickness: 1.45 mm; Weight: 1.26g Discussion: There are currently c.75 Merovingian gold tremissis recorded on the PAS database, only 5 are pierced. which are classified…
Created on: Thursday 19th September 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 1st June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Harlaxton area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-835ED1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete cast copper alloy S-shaped brooch of Early-Medieval date, dating to the fifth or sixth century (probably c. 450-550 AD). Description: The brooch is of plate type and is narrowed S-shape in plan. Each terminal is bifurcated slightly possibly in imitation of a bird beak, a common motif of such brooches. It has further decoration in the form of two transverse incised lines diagonally top to bottom, each side of which are a line of ring and and annulets top to bottom also. There are additional ring and annulets incised into the terminal/heads.The reverse is undecorated …
Created on: Wednesday 24th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 29th August 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-826868
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch, as kindly identified by the finder. A small cast equal-armed or ansate brooch of near-symmetrical design. A central rhomboid with slightly concave sides is flanked by opposed discs separated from the mid-part by double moulded collars. Flat trapezoid lugs project from behind the inner side of each disc, presumably the seat of a hinged pin and its corresponding catch plate. The ansate form is a Frankish style. One side of the central rhomboid is perhaps truncated. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 700-800. Length: 32.4mm, Width: 11.9mm, Thickness (clear of pin ge…
Created on: Tuesday 30th April 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 30th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-7A24B0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A early-medieval Merovingian gold tremissis, 'National'/'mint-and-moneyer' series dating c.AD 580-670; mint: possibly Beauvais (ancient Bellovacum); moneyer: Aigoaldus. The inscriptions on both obverse and reverse are truncated, struck partially off the flan. The coin appears to be unlisted in de Belfort (1892-5) and Prou (1892). Obverse: '+[BE?, possibly BA?]LLOACV[S?..]'; Diademed and bust in right. Reverse: +AIGO[A?]LDVS. Long cross on globe on steps, a pellet in each lower quarter. Measurements: 11.8mm in diameter, 1.2g in weight.
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 13th October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Canterbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAJN-93DC39
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval silver Merovingian denier struck on a square flan, unclassified, c.675-750. Cf. Abramson 2017, nos 1111-2 (Belfort 5723 - 31var; Prou 2890). Obverse: Right-facing head, cross in front. Reverse: cross within arched volute.
Created on: Friday 1st March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 26th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lewknor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-AED2E2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch. Cast ansate or caterpillar brooch. A straight-sided strip tapers from a rectangular head to a narrower foot with an out-turned terminal, with a projecting keeled mid bow between the two ends. There is a thickened step or stop at the top of the mid-bow element. An integrally cast U-shaped lug behind the head, now chipped, bears rust stains from an iron pin [otherwise lost], while a folded catch plate remains intact behind the foot. Stamped decoration comprises four ring-and-dot of diameter 4.6mm symmetrically disposed on the head; a further four ring-and-dot at the…
Created on: Wednesday 6th February 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-4A202A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete but clipped early medieval silver denier of the Merovingian Franks dating to c.AD700-50, mint of Marseille (MEC1, no 577). Ref: Grierson and Blackburn 1986: 149; cf. Chambouillet 1890: nos 107-18 (pl.VI-VII). Rev: Anchor cross with the roman nummerals V, II either side of the shank.
Created on: Monday 15th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-40F667
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval gold tremissis Merovingian of the 'National coinage' (c.AD580 - 670) dating to the period cAD580 - 610. Obverse: diademed bust right, with a legend possibly corresponding to a town's name, possibly IERILIA(NIS) or CERILIA(NIS). Reverse: seated figure, possibly derived from Roma, left, holding victory. Legend corresponds to a moneyer, possibly (M)OTENC(I). Ref: Prou 1892: p. 395, nos 1910-1, 1912; /pl.XXVII nos 22-3 RVN in exergue, possibly corresponding to an unidentifed mint in the civitas Rutenorum (Rodez), South-Central France.
Created on: Wednesday 15th August 2018
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Marlowe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-025A46
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval gold tremissis of Merovingian 'National Series' (584-750) issued by an unknown ruler, c.590-670, possibly mint: Cologne, moneyer: Gaucemare. Obverse description: Degenerate diademed bust right; this reporter sees a large L-shaped stroke for the nose, with thick lips below and a large eye immediately left of the nose. Three pellets lower left may be the lace of the diadem. Legends below are offered on a 'looks like' basis, and this reporter would cheerfully defer to a better qualified authority. Obverse inscription: GAVCVM>R[ ] Reverse description: Central c…
Created on: Tuesday 31st July 2018
Last updated: Monday 29th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stapleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-38D124
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval gold tremissis of the Merovingian 'National Coinage' (c.580-670), mint: Canac, Rodez (France; Belfort 1382; Prou 1903). Refs: Belfort 1892: 387; Prou 1982: 393. Die axis = 2
Created on: Tuesday 3rd April 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-63594D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a Early Early-Medieval buckle plate, of Aquitanian-Frankish type. The piece is part of a flat plate with downturned edges giving a hollow back and now slightly bent in from each side. One end is complete and straight with two broken projecting rectangular bars which would have connected to the frame. Immediately below this edge are two circles marking the attachment point of bosses, now missing; the outer halves of which project from the sides of the plate widening it in this section, beyond the circles the plate continues with a rectangular section which ends in an irregular,…
Created on: Saturday 3rd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 12th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pulham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-21CE21
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy probable brooch fragment. Cast mid bow from a brooch of unusual or atypical form, possibly a variant of the Frankish equal-armed form. The concavo-convex keeled mid bow has the stub of a lug behind and at either end, one presumably being a pin seat and the other a catch plate. At the more complete end, the brooch continues with a sharp right-angled kink with a narrow straight-sided and round-ended continuation following the alignment of the mid bow. The other end is lost, though a similar projection might be inferred if a symmetrical form is posited. Suggested date: Early…
Created on: Wednesday 20th September 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 20th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Keelby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-D62D73
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A pale gold Merovingian Frankish tremissis, minted at Quentovic by the moneyer Anglo, c.645-50 (Lafaurie group XIc nos 100-10, especially nos 107-8). Refs: Lafaurie 1996; Webster and Backhouse 1991: no. 144; cf EMC 2015.0323 Obverse: Diademed bust right. Legend: '+VVICCO FIT'. Reverse: Cross potent set on two stepped. Legend: '[AN]GL[O]MONET'. the irregular flan obscuring some detail, particularly on the reverse. Measurements: 11.13mm in diameter, 1.79mm thick and weighs 1.15g
Created on: Wednesday 23rd August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-7FA24B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A composite early-medieval gold, garnet and green glass cloisonné mount, possibly from a buckle. Description: The mount is sub-triangular in form. It comprises a gold frame, constructed from a sheet gold back-plate to which have been soldered gold strips, set edge-on, to create four cells: three hemispherical cells arranged around a central triangular cell. The hemispherical cells are inlaid with red stones, probably garnets, and the triangular cell is inlaid with green glass. The gold frame is edged with a strand of gold beaded wire, masking the join between cells and back-plate.…
Created on: Wednesday 7th June 2017
Last updated: Friday 6th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chislet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-30F0CC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early early-medieval copper-alloy radiate-headed brooch dating to the 6th century. The base of the foot and pin are missing; the spring survives as a corroded area of iron. The catchplate has been damaged and repaired in antiquity. The object has a semi-circular headplate with semi-cylindrical projections at 12, 3 and 9 o'clock (when viewing with the head uppermost). These are decorated on the curving front with transverse grooves and resultant ridges. The body of the headplate is decorated with punched ring-and-dot motifs arranged in three rows: one at the top, five at…
Created on: Friday 28th April 2017
Last updated: Monday 19th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Itchen Valley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-D90FBC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast, white-metal coated copper-alloy early-medieval Frankish S-shaped brooch with bird-head terminals, late c.5th-6th century. The brooch is S-shaped and formed of two conjoined predatory birds' heads in profile. divided by a bar decorated with a relief border. From each end of the bar, linked to the ends of the birds' beaks, is a curved tapering projection, probably representing the birds' legs or talons. These projections have a sunken triangular centre at their wider base, and a pair of very fine grooves across as they taper to a point. Each bird is nearly identical…
Created on: Monday 6th March 2017
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-028FFE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast gilded silver bow brooch dating to the early medieval period. Description: The brooch has a short triangular head-plate with a circular flat knop at the apex. The bottom two corners are missing but may also have had flat knops similar to some small radiate-headed brooches. The foot is also triangular but more elongated than the head plate. It has a similar flat knop at its base and is missing part of its upper right corner. The front of the brooch is heavily decorated. The surviving terminal knops having a nielloed triangle set in them. A ridge in relief r…
Created on: Friday 24th February 2017
Last updated: Friday 8th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyminge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-C6D398
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval (late 6th to 7th century) gold Merovingian tremissis (c.580-670) minted at Quentovic (France) by Dagulfus (Prou 1122; Lafaurie 1996 Dagulfus type 2). Refs: Prou 1892: 246; Lafaurie 1996: 196-7.' Obv.: Left-facing diademed bust; inscription starts at 3 o'clock and is retrograde. Leg.: 'VVIC IN PO[N]TI[O]'. Rev.: Inscription around a central motif described by Prou as 'some kind of tree', Lafaurie as 'feuille de vesce' (vetch, a kind of plant group). Leg.: from 8 o'clock, 'DAFVLFVS MNT'. Measurements: 10.95mm diameter, 1.35mm thick and 1.40g in weight.
Created on: Monday 28th November 2016
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-C7A068
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete early medieval Merovingian gold tremisis of the 'National' coinage dating to the late 6th or 7th century, c.AD 580 - 670, moneyer and mint uncertain.
Created on: Friday 4th November 2016
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-A55756
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval Merovingian silver denier dating c.720-750 the obverse copying a Secondary Phase sceat of Series O (bmc type 38), the reverse showing a Parisian cross ancrée; mint unknown but probably from Northern Francia or Frisia (cf. MEC631 which shows same design although obverse bird is walking left rather than right). Obverse: Bird with long beak (?curlew) and forked tail, walking right, pellet above and below neck; in tapering torc ending with large pellet, surrounded by elaborate borders, within pellet border. Reverse: Parisian cross ancrée, with pellets; within pelle…
Created on: Friday 21st October 2016
Last updated: Thursday 3rd November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Houghton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-7CED1D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Early Medieval copper alloy radiate headed brooch, dating to the 6th century. The object has a semi-circular head plate with three semi-cylindrical projections at each corner and the peak. A slightly curved bow projects from the flat edge of the headplate and a hexagonal footplate is at the base. Two lugs are on the back of the head plate where the pin would have attached, though the pin is no longer present. The catchplate remains on the back of the foot, though the lip has broken away. There are ribs forming a decoration on the projections from the headplate and thr…
Created on: Tuesday 13th September 2016
Last updated: Saturday 18th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-213626
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and worn cast gilt copper-alloy Early Medieval zoomorphic plate brooch in the shape of a horse (also known as a Pferdefibeln), of likely Merovingian Frankish origin or influence, c. mid 5th - mid 6th century in date (AD c.475-c.530 ). The brooch is flat and shaped like a horse with a its legs attached to a linear base. The detail of the horse is picked out in the chip-carve style, consisting of flowing incised lines particularly highlighting the horse's main and tail. The large eye of the head which is the only real detail of the face save for a very small triangular …
Created on: Monday 15th August 2016
Last updated: Saturday 28th March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-A01AB2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval Merovingian obol, probably minted in Paris, c.700-50. Ref: Dhénin and Schiesser 2007: 289 (no.7). The coin recorded here is the same coin as Dhénin and Schiesser no. 7, The coin appears to be a relatively base silver and is corroded. The flan is an uneven shape, possibly the result of post-depositional effects. Reference: M Dhénin & P Schiesser (2007), Oboles mérovingiennes, Revue Numismatique 163, 283-313.
Created on: Monday 16th May 2016
Last updated: Thursday 19th January 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-112F63
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval (late 6th or 7th century) gold Merovingian tremissis of the 'National Coinage' (c.587-670), mint: Antebrinnacum (Ambernac, France), moneyer: Levdenus (Belfort 216). ref: Belfort 1892: 66. The coin is struck off centre.
Created on: Friday 15th April 2016
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-B16336
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval silver Merovingian (Frankish) denier, dating from c.675-750 (Belfort 5726-30). Ref: Belfort 1892: 207-8. The reverse of the coin matches those shown in Belfort nos. 5726-30 but the obverse is slightly harder to place, in part owing to its condition. Most akin to Belfort 5726 although this has no cross in front of the face. Many other deniers exhibit crosses in front of the bust. The place in the sequence of deniers is difficult to assess but given that this coin is a little corroded it indicates that the silver content is not high, suggesting the coin should be…
Created on: Monday 22nd February 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 15th March 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-60D592
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle plate. Cast plate of trefoil form and of 0.9mm thickness with three dome headed rivets to attach plate to strap, and a slot for the pin [which is lost, as is the frame]. An intact and in situ rivet has a head of diameter 9.2mm and a rivet [including head] c.6mm long. A second rivet is now detached, and has a head of 9.4mm diameter and a shank of length 6.6mm. The third rivet head is broken; what remains of it is now sub-triangular. Traces of gilding appear on the display side. The back of the plate is lost. The use of tripled domed rivets recalls Frankish buckle st…
Created on: Monday 25th January 2016
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-7882DB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval gilded copper alloy small radiate-headed brooch dating from the mid sixth century. Description: The brooch has a semi-circular head plate decorated with a chip-carved Salin's Style I zoomorphic design depicting a crouched beast left, possibly a duck or other bird. This is surrounded by a raised border. The head has three rounded knobs, one at the top and one to each side; the knob on the right side has now broken away. The brooch has a shallow arched bow carinated on the front, and concave behind. The central raised ridges of the carinated bow are beaded li…
Created on: Thursday 14th January 2016
Last updated: Friday 17th June 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-11D081
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Powys
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small melon type glass polychromatic bead of early Medieval (Frankish) period c late.6th Century. The bead is globular in form with six ribs. It is primary made of pale blue green glass, the glass is of very high quality being very translucent with only small air bubbles within it. This would suggest being made by a highly quality craftsman. The bead has been decorated with strands of coloured glass applied to the outer surface similar to enamaling. The colours applied are shades of red, yellow and white. There is a small patch of damage on the bead most likley caused by movem…
Created on: Sunday 4th October 2015
Last updated: Monday 11th April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Radnor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-C42F03
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
'An early-medieval gold Merovingian tremissis of the 'National Series' (Prou 1091), minted in Senlis (Oise), c.580-670. Moneyer (on coin): VRSOLENI. Ref: Prou 1892: p.239.' Obverse: +SILVANECTIS [FI]T; Head with large annulet eye and mouth formed of two pellets, facing right Reverse: VRSOLENI MONETA; Cross with six-pointed star in each lower angle and L in upper right angle Diameter: 11.4mm. Weight: 1.32g. DA=12:6.
Created on: Wednesday 1st April 2015
Last updated: Thursday 23rd April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-814DFE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and iron brooch fragment. Copper alloy head of a simple tiny radiate headed brooch, comprising a semi-circular plate with three equidistant collared knops projecting from its ends and centre. A moulded relief motif on the plate resembles a pair of oval eyes with a brow-line above them, within a pronounced border. The top of a lightly keeled bow remains below the head plate; its lower extent is lost. On the back a U-shaped lug retains the corroded stub of an iron pin or spring, and extensive gilding traces are also preserved here. The form is of Frankish origin, an affinit…
Created on: Tuesday 17th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 8th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-3E51D8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval Merovingian gold tremissis of Dronrijp type (Pol Series 4 Class 2; MEC 519-20 (die duplicate); Prou 1240), probably minted in Austrasia or Frisia (modern Low Countries) and dating to the early/mid 7th century, c.620-40. The diameter is 13mm and the weight 1.27g. Refs: Pol 2008; Grierson and Blackburn 1986 (MEC).
Created on: Monday 12th January 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 5th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BURTON-IN-KENDAL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-989140
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Published
A silver gilt plate brooch with pink gem or glass settings (perhaps pale garnets), which is probably Continental, Early Medieval and dating from AD 400 - 600. The brooch is quatrefoil in plan, with a smaller lobe in the outer angle of each pair of foils. The four outer lobes are circular settings for pink gem (garnet) or glass insets. Three of these survive. The last setting contains a white concretion, perhaps solder or cement for the missing gem. A similar sized circular cell, also missing its setting, is at the centre of the plate. The four lobes of the quatrefoil are all decora…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd December 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 15th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-20376A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval gold Merovingian tremissis of the 'National series', dating c.580-670. Issuer and mint uncertain.
Created on: Tuesday 11th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 13th May 2015
No spatial data available.

Record ID: PUBLIC-3DB12D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval silver sceat of Seconadry Phase Series E (Variety A variant; porcupine and standard), c.AD 715-765, probably minted in the Netherlands. Ref: North (194:61) no. 48.
Created on: Sunday 19th October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cossington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-9B6B89
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval gold tremissis of the Merovingian 'National' series (c. 580-670); Belfort 536; moneyer: Angliulfus; mint: Orléans; date: c.620-640. Diameter: 10.4mm; thickness: 1.7mm. Weight: 1.22g. Description and legends, with notes: Obverse: Right-facing diademed head; inscription: (from c.9 o'clock, above hair) AVRILANIS (devolved version of AVRELIANIS for Orléans. This devolved version also seen on Belfort 536) Reverse: cross ancrée and cross pattée; (from 12 o'clock): AVGIVL+FSX (this differs from Belfort's reading of IIESVNCIA but more can be seen on this coin).
Created on: Friday 5th September 2014
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EFE4B4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver knob from a radiate-headed brooch of early-medieval date. It is roughly D- or U-shaped, with a straight edge where it would have been attached to the headplate. It has cast relief Style I decoration consisting of a raised border inlaid with a longitudinal niello stripe at the attachment edge, conjoined brows also inlaid with a niello stripe, deep pointed-oval eye sockets with raised central pointed-oval pupils each of which has a tiny blind hole, and a worn pellet-like nose from which extends a median rib which divides a second pair of circular eyes or nostrils. Th…
Created on: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 18th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-8FD211
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete Early-Medieval Frankish gilded silver radiate-headed brooch. Worn semi-circular head-plate with five integrally cast collared knobs, the plate with a crescent-shaped panel of counter-relief decoration comprising four large spirals within a beaded border. The spirals are arranged so that the two on the left are both clockwise and form a reversed S; they are then linked by a ridge to the spiral on the far right, which turns anti-clockwise. The near-right spiral is detached and turns anti-clockwise. The short, flattened bow has a cross-shaped moulding with worn…
Created on: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-B9DFC5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Tiny gold filigree-decorated mount in the shape of a bird, now slightly crushed but apparently never of very fine workmanship. It has a flat gold backplate with a beaded-wire border running around the small crescent-shaped profile head looking left, probably intended as a that of a predatory bird; two wings, one curved and pointed but the other (under the head) just a rounded circle; and flared base, perhaps intended to represent a tail. The beaded wire of this border is about 0.7mm in diameter and is very worn, rubbed flat in places and scraped in others; it is missing e…
Created on: Monday 14th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 11th December 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-E6FCB4
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Frankish early medieval scabbard chape dating to the period c. AD 400 - 600. The scabbard chape is trefoliate in shape and consists of a central anthropomorphic terminal flanked by two zoomorphic terminals. Only the front plate remains and terminates in a old break at the end of the central terminal. For a complete example of similar design see HAMP-4CBF82. The central longitudinal bar terminates in a stylised human head moulded in low relief. The hair is indicated by a number of fine longitudinal incised lines and is divided from the rest of the fac…
Created on: Tuesday 21st January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 20th February 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-C234F1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Early Medieval zoomorphic brooch, probably of Merovingian (i.e. Frankish) origin or possibly an English imitation, dating to c. 6th century AD. The brooch depicts the body of a bird in profile, with a hooked beak, narrow head, oval-shaped body and triangular tail, with a thicker segment to the lower body indicating legs. Areas of the bird are raised to emphasise particular detail such as the englarged singular circular eye, the perimeter edge of the beak and body and the entire triangular tail; these areas are covered in small incised dots, creating tex…
Created on: Tuesday 7th January 2014
Last updated: Monday 22nd October 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-F3F683
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A 7th-century Early-Medieval gold Merovingian tremissis; c.600-675 AD; mint: Quentovic (Wicus); moneyer: Dutta; Lafaurie, 1996: nos. 62-66b.
Created on: Monday 17th June 2013
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wetheringsett-cum-Brockford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-5FE084
Object type: COIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Principality of Antioch (Crusader State). Tancred (as regent) 1104-12 An incomplete and corroded copper-alloy follis of Tancred's second type. Obverse: [ ]; unclear facing bust of Tancred with pointed beard, helmet (sometimes called a turban) and sword over shoulder. Reverse: [ ]; one cross arm visible but struck off centre. No traces of lettering visible in angles of cross. Diameter: 18.1mm. Weight: 1.45g. DA=12:12.
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 4th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-747ED0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content for the brooch fragment of 89% with copper, lead, gold and tin also detected; it weighs 3.51 grams. The fragment consists of the foot-plate of a miniature square-headed brooch; height, 35mm (surviving); width, 24mm. In the centre is a hollow-sided, lozenge-shaped panel enclosed by a border ridge, which is asymmetrically decorated with zoomorphic elements of Salin's Style I including two limbs and a ribbon-like body. The foot-plate tapers to a long, animal-head terminal with punched, circu…
Created on: Tuesday 11th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Cave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-394035
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete gold and cloisonné garnet mount in the form of the upper body of a bird of prey in profile looking left, now slightly crushed and distorted. The bird has a curving pointed beak, a rounded head and waisted neck. The mount was made from a gold backplate, with beaded-wire filigree soldered around its edge so that it is visible from both front and reverse. The beaded wire is c. 0.8-0.9mm in diameter and was made by using a swage to form rather irregular, angular beads, several with a medial seam or Äquatorschnitt. Attached to the front of the backplate are …
Created on: Monday 26th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 8th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-8709C3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: This remarkable piece is a double-sided seal matrix from a gold signet ring of Frankish type, diameter 12 mm, and with a gold content of approximately 98 per cent. It was designed to pivot on a pin which engaged with the shoulders of the ring itself, now lost. The bezel is engraved on one side with a long-haired frontal bust surmounted by a cross, with stylized drapery below; around this is a retrograde inscription in a mixture of capitals and lower case, which may be read as a female name, Baldehildis (Balthild). On the reverse is a scene with a male and a long-haired fe…
Created on: Monday 25th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norwich area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-74C093
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
An silver early medieval Merovingian denier of a previously unrecorded type, c.AD 700-40, possibly Chalon-sur-Saone. The reverse may be related to De Belfort 6582 and 6514, both of unassigned mint. The reverse inscription, VVNTVIO, is unlisted although may be a blundered version of VVINTRIO for the moneyer Wintrio) known from tremisses listed for Chalon-sur-Saone (Prou 183-194) and Izernore (De Belfort 2065/Prou 125 var.), both in the Geneva area. The obverse inscription may read CVVOIN+OI possibly a devolved version of CABILONNVM (Chalon-sur-Saone), and similar to CA VI O+ NO as se…
Created on: Tuesday 12th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Amberley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-399C73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver knob from a radiate-headed brooch, in the shape of an animal's head, perhaps a boar. The underside is flat and hollowed, with no gilding. A flat surface at right angles to the reverse forms the back of the head, and bears a low lug at the top, 4.1mm wide by 1.5mm deep. At the base of this, a thicker (5.7mm by 3.3mm) and more ragged stub may be the remains of an iron post passing through the flat end; there is much iron staining in this area. The animal's head begins with a low ridged collar which is topped by a longitudinal groove. Beyond is a wide groo…
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2012
Last updated: Thursday 14th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C5EBB3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilt copper alloy Continental radiate-headed brooch, sub-triangular/semi-circular head with chip-carved eye motifs within border, three circular integral knobs project from outside edge each with a tiny stamped annulet. The shallow arched bow has a tiny knurled rib between flanking grooves. There are seven angular transverse ribs above the flat expanded sub-oval terminal which is decorated with a tiny central stamped annulet within a bordering line of multiple annulets. Pierced lug within corroded remains of iron pin and catch-plate on reverse. 20 x 39mm. Cf. a closely related early v…
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 24th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scole', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-0A7327
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) Merovingian gold tremissis, minted at Nantes (c. AD 560-c. 585 AD). MEC 460; Belfort 3094; Depeyrot type 3-2E. A Merovingian coin imitating Visigothic (which itself imitates Byzantine in a very devolved way). Obverse: left-facing bust, inscription possibly reading NAM Reverse: Victory advancing left; IVIO / N References: MEC: P. Grierson and M. Blackburn (1986), Medieval European Coinage 1: the early middle ages (Cambridge), see pl. 22 (no. 460); Depeyrot, G 'Le Numeraire Merovngien L'age de L'or (Moneta).
Created on: Sunday 1st January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 29th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NCL-B0C444
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy zoomorphic and anthropomorphic Frankish scabbard chape of c. 5th-6th century date. Only the front plate of the chape remains (see HAMP-4CBF82 for a complete and closely similar example). It consists of a trefoilate plate that can be separated into an anthropomorphic terminal flanked by zoomorphic 'wings' emerging from the base/body of the plate. The anthropomorphic terminal consists of a simple human head with moulded decoration in low relief, depicting eyes directly below a possible conical helmet with nose-guard. The two wings curve upward from the base/bod…
Created on: Wednesday 9th November 2011
Last updated: Monday 21st July 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BH-DB46C1
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy pin with chip carved decoration on the head. The head is of elongated, sub-trapezoidal form, its upper surface decorated with two animals, executed in negative relief, their deep, v-shaped grooves adorned with gilding. The head of the one of the animals is located towards the wider end of the pin head and faces backwards. It is of simple design, being roughly circular in plan and having a pellet eye at the centre. The inner end of the head extends smoothly into the body, an open beak springing from the junction between the two and containing the distal en…
Created on: Thursday 6th October 2011
Last updated: Monday 15th September 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-9D6532
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early-Medieval (possibly Frankish) single looped buckle (c. 450-c. 600 AD). The pin is missing. This oval frame is convex at the front and bevelled at the rear. On the upper surface, the sides and outside edge are decorated with transverse grooves. In plan, the centre of the outside edge is slightly indented. It has a narrowed bar, oval in cross-section. At the centre of the bar there is an area of wear that was created by the pin loop. This buckle has a patchy dark green and mid-brown patina with areas of active corrosion.
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 21st September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-5DF4C6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval gold Merovingian tremissis of the 'National' Coinage (c.AD580-670), uncertain mint and moneyer.
Created on: Sunday 18th September 2011
Last updated: Friday 3rd March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shepherdswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-78CB34
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early-Medieval (Frankish) bow brooch (c. 450-c. 550 AD). This brooch does not fit very easily into the usual Anglo-Saxon categories and appears to be an early Frankish 'import'. The head plate and foot are incomplete and the pin is missing. In plan, the flat head plate would have originally been semi-circular. It has a small bow, convex at the front and flat at the rear. In plan, the bow has parallel sides and is mildly arched in side view. The length of the bow is 11.1mm, width 5.2mm and thickness 2.6mm. The foot was originally lozenge-shaped in plan. It has rounded…
Created on: Wednesday 7th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 8th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-B9EB67
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval copper-alloy scabbard-slide of 6th-century date. The slide appears to have been cast in one piece, with moulded decoration on one face. The slide is linear in plan with rounded terminals and a constriction in the centre. The two terminals are zoomorphic in form, probably depicting boars' heads, with upturned ends to the snouts, two ears and two circular recesses representing eyes that would probably have been inlaid with glass or gems. There are 7 circular resesses along the back of the slide which may also have once contained glass or gems. Gilding remains on the s…
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 27th March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-BC4105
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a copper-alloy finger-ring of early to middle Early-Medieval date. The ring has a circular bezel which is nearly flat. It is decorated with four pairs of curved incised grooves, one by each shoulder and one to top and bottom. These form a central lozenge, in which is an incised cross, with an annulet in each angle. The whole is in a incised circular border. The hoop is narrow and the outer face is bevelled. Only a short part of it survives, projecting from one shoulder. The shoulders are each decorated with three pellets forming a sub-triangular knop projecting from the angle …
Created on: Friday 5th August 2011
Last updated: Thursday 11th June 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-68EFF4
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Rivet. Shoe shaped rivet; a form particularly associated with early medieval burials of Frankish affinity, wherein groups of three such rivets would fasten a buckle to a strap. The stub of the rivet remains on the back of a flat plate with pointed 'toe', marked 'instep' and a rounded 'heel'. The greyish colour of the polished display surface suggests an alloy with a significant admixture of tin. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 500-600. Length: 21.6mm, Width: 10.9mm, Thickness: 3.0mm, Weight: 2.94gms.
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2011
Last updated: Monday 21st November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Middle Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-C860B2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
A silver early medieval coin, probably a Merovingian denier dating c.725-50 and possibly minted in Poiters St.Hilaire (ancient Petavis) although this is uncertain. For similar coins from this mint see Depeyrot 2001, pl. 5, Poiters St-HIl nos 3 and 4. However, while the reverse type on these matches this coin, the bust here is of much better workmanship. ref: G. Depreyot (2001) Le Numeraire Merovingien L'Age du Denier, Moneta Collection 22 (Wetteren: Moneta)
Created on: Monday 18th April 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Medway', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-4CBF82
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper-alloy Frankish (early-medieval) zoomorphic and anthropomorphic scabbard chape of c. 5th-/6th-century date. It consists of a sub-trefoilate front plate that curves at its base into a thin back prong riveted to the front plate through a small perforated loop at the apex. At the base is a flat biconical knop with collar above. The trefoil plate can be divided into a central longitudinal bar which terminates at the attachment end in a human face moulded in low relief, at the top of which the pierced loop already mentioned. Two lateral protrusions emerge from the c…
Created on: Monday 7th March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 14th December 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-EDD8D2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A fragment of flat decorated gilded silver. It appears to have been irregularly cut, most probably from a lozenge-shaped brooch. The surviving edge has two circular lobes projecting side by side from the corner of the lozenge, each decorated with a central raised dot and a pair of concentric ridges. Of the two remaining edges, one is ragged and the other is cleanly cut. The interior of the plate is decorated with a linear border made up of a narrow outer and a wide inner ridge with traces of punched circles on it, forming the angle of the lozenge. Within this is worn re…
Created on: Tuesday 25th January 2011
Last updated: Monday 13th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heckington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-6D3516
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Almost complete cast silver/copper-alloy radiate-headed brooch of early-medieval date. It has a semi-circular headplate with raised outer border, and within this two raised lines following the outline; in the centre there is a semi-circular zone of vertical lines. The brooch probably originally had five baluster-shaped projections with moulded terminals but only two incomplete ones remain, with the rest of the perimeter of the headplate being damaged. The rectangular bow is wide with a shallow arch just below the radiate head and expands towards the bottom. The front is moulded with a…
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2011
Last updated: Monday 13th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Asgarby Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-DB3CC5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy plate brooch in the form of an equal-armed cross with bifid terminals. The centre of the cross is lozenge-shaped and has a raised centre surrounded by two grooved borders. One arm of the brooch is missing. On the reverse are two copper-alloy lugs, both broken, one with a circular hole in which is iron corrosion, probably the remains of the pin. The metal has a smooth green patina where it is not damaged. Although there are superficial similarities to various cross-shaped middle and later Anglo-Saxon brooches (e.g. SF-C42F44), the closest parallels are to be found am…
Created on: Wednesday 12th January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 20th March 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-16F333
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval gilded cast copper alloy brooch, incomplete, head and bow only. Length (incomplete) 44.8mm, width across head 30.6mm, width across centre of bow 13.6mm, thickness across centre of bow 4.1mm, thickness across head (just above lugs) 2.3mm, weight 11.50g. Laura McLean writes: Early Medieval (Frankish) 6th century bow brooch. The headplate is roughly rectangular, with three semi-circular knops (I can't tell from your photo if there is any decoration/recesses on the knops). The central rectangular panel of the head is divided into three sections, each c…
Created on: Thursday 28th January 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 29th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Borley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9F34F6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a composite silver disc brooch of rosette shape, with inlaid garnets and silver filigree ornament; it dates to the early part of the early-medieval period and is perhaps of Frankish manufacture. Six of twelve trapezoidal cells around the edge are extant, each with a convex outer edge and set with a cloisonné garnet on pointillé gold foil. These radiate from a circle containing two elliptical cells set with cloisonné garnets and a central panel with silver wire spirals on a silver backplate. Where the radiating cells have been broken, reddish brown material can be s…
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2009
Last updated: Monday 22nd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'King's Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-917677
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy chape from an early early-medieval scabbard, probably of Frankish origin. It is cast in one piece and consists of a central vertical bar, D-shaped in cross-section, which ends at the top in a triangle with a pair of circles below, perhaps a stylised human face. Two lateral protrusions emerge from the centre of the bar and curve up and round to meet the corners of the triangle. These have transverse grooves across the junction with the bar and end in animal heads, resembling dolphins or birds, curling inwards around two small holes. There is some decoration in the form of …
Created on: Thursday 13th March 2008
Last updated: Monday 21st July 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-061D23
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval Frankish copper-alloy zoomorphic scabbard chape, Menghin's Type 3a (Menghin 1983, "Das Schwert im Fruhen Mittelalter", p.126-8 & 351-3), incomplete. In the form of a helmeted ?moustached warrior with what appear to be serpents or bird-like animals emerging from each side, which then curve inwards to meet the face of the human. The human head wears a domed helmet decorated with vertical grooves, and with a triangular knop projecting from the top and raised horizontal ridge around the base, which appears to have a nose guard extending downwards from it. R…
Created on: Wednesday 1st August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newark', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-72CF23
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy openwork Frankish scabbard chape of Menghin's Type 3a. The slightly worn decorative details comprise a human head, probably helmeted, with ring-and-dot eyes. Above the eyes are vertical grooves above a horizontal band. On each side of the head is a beaked bird-like head, each with a voided eye. Between these heads is a narrow extension which emerges from a V-shaped terminal and which curves around the back of the object to end in a triangular expansion. This forms a clasp for the scabbard. Other examples of this type of scabbard chape can be found on the PAS data…
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 9th August 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-7F2E18
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval Frankish copper-alloy zoomorphic scabbard chape fragment, 28.7mm long, 25.6mm wide and 2.7mm thick. The object is in good condition with a green patina and weighs c. 5g. It is in the form of a helmeted moustached warrior with what appears to be serpents emerging from each side, which then curve round towards the face. The helmet is triangular in form and is represented by a raised band, above which are radiating incised lines running to the edges. The warrior has cup-and-ring eyes and has an angular nose guard in between. He has a moustache formed of chevron shaped inc…
Created on: Wednesday 13th September 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-F97E52
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy radiate-headed brooch, comprising part of the headplate and bow. The radiate head originally had five half-round knobs projecting from its upper edge; two of these are missing and the central one is incomplete. The headplate is decorated with opposed pairs of running spirals. The bow has a central longitudinal ridge. A single perforated lug on the reverse of the headplate acted as the attachment for the iron spring and pin mechanism, which now survives only as a small area of iron corrosion. Worn transverse break at base of bow. Parallels to the spiral decoration …
Created on: Friday 14th October 2005
Last updated: Monday 30th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'EAST KENT', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D4B5D6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Saxon incomplete gilded copper alloy Asymmetric brooch (25 x 40mm). To one side of the bow is a broken rectangular terminal with remains of beaded border around chip-carved decoration. The chip-carving consists of two triangular panels, that closest to the bow smaller than the other, separated by a ridge and set within a serrated border line. The terminal at the other end of the bow is triangular with a rounded moulding at each corner, that at apex with two transverse incised lines indicating a collar. The edge of the terminal has a raised border all around, with punched dots…
Created on: Monday 13th June 2005
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-BD6BF4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Gold mid 7th-century tremisssis, probably struck in France c AD 630. the blundered inscription, in pseudo-lettering, is inspired by the coins of Chalon, which have CA for Chalon either side of a Byzantine cross. The Fitzwilliam Museum examined the coin and discovered that it has a specific gravity of 15.75 (c.72% gold + 28% silver). EMC 2005.0041 [merovingian]
Created on: Thursday 31st March 2005
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2017
No spatial data available.

Record ID: HAMP-ABA5F3
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a copper-alloy Frankish (early-medieval) zoomorphic and anthropomorphic scabbard chape of c. 5th-/6th-century date. The upper surface is generally convex and the reverse is flat so that the object is generally D-shaped in cross-section. The object is broken and would originally have had a broadly trefoil-shaped plate: representing a central human head flanked on each side by curved elements which terminate in birds' heads. The central lobe is generally oval and the surviving side lobe/arm is generally semi-circular. The second side lobe/arm is missing. There are two in…
Created on: Wednesday 29th September 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-791CE8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A small brooch in the form of a bird, of 6th century date and probable Frankish origin. The bird has a prominent curving beak, a triangular tail and a pair of legs. A fin-like projection on its back, with seven ribs, may be intended to represent a wing. The eye is formed by a circular recess which may originally have held a stone or bead. The tail has a triangular area filled with white enamel. The front of the brooch is gilded, almost all of which survives. The tail, legs and beak are each further delineated using a grooved line. The back of the brooch is not gilded. The catch plate …
Created on: Monday 9th February 2004
Last updated: Monday 22nd October 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS554
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
This object was originally recorded as NMS554 with a description by Steven Ashley, but no photograph. A few months later, in July 2003, a duplicate record was made (PAS-D396A7) with a new description by Barry Ager (and a revised date of 525-575 AD) but again no photograph. The findspot of PAS-D396A7 was slightly different, probably as the result of taking a degraded four-figure NGR (perhaps a parish centre) and adding zeroes to make a spuriously precise but inaccurate grid reference. The HER record has been checked to confirm the true findspot. PAS-D396A7 has now been deleted. …
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KILVERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT2654
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Terminal of one-half of a silver-gilt Frankish arm-ring. The terminal is cast in the form of a lion or horse's head with the muzzle truncated by a solid rectangular plate set with two square cut garnets. The remains of a corroded iron catch pin remain on the inner surface. Above, the head assumes a more naturalistic aspect with moulded eye-sockets both originally filled with a poorly cut circular plate garnet; only one survives. Above the eyes are two deep cut cells filled with lentoid plate garnets, also poorly cut, representing prick ears held close to the head. No foils can be s…
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT WROTHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF2799
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy scabbard chape of early Anglo-Saxon date, with engraved and punched detail on the front. The object consists of a sub-ovoid openwork plate, with a flat reverse and slightly curving upper surface; the upper or front is in the shape of two profiled curving bird (or possibly beast) heads separated by a thin tapering field which connects the chin of a human head placed at the top of the plate (between each of the bird heads) to a broken hook of D-shaped section at the bottom. There is a curved notch on the top left hand side. The human head has a bald curving brow, po…
Created on: Thursday 22nd June 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MILDENHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF2151
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Square gilt copper alloy and garnet disc brooch. A flat-backed plate in the form of four roundels in a square arrangement with a raised central lozenge; on the front surface each roundel is defined by a central circular drilled hole, in one case piercing the thickness of the metal, surrounded by two concentric grooves of V-shaped profile. At the centre of each of the edges of the plate, where the roundels touch, are four smaller circular settings or cloisons which protrude slightly beyond the outer limits of the roundels. Each tapers slightly towards its upper edge and is set with a …
Created on: Friday 7th April 2000
Last updated: Friday 15th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CARLTON COLVILLE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM2720
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Circular pendant with cells, one still with cross hatched gold foil in situ. Originally with garnet inlays, now all lost. No traces of any attachments on back. Good traces of gilding on front. Possibly Frankish.
Created on: Thursday 7th October 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM961
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half of a Merovingian ansate brooch, the real thing. Ring-dot decoration. 2 rearward facing lugs.
Created on: Tuesday 1st December 1998
Last updated: Friday 9th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH KESTEVEN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM745
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Frankish-merovingian ansate brooch, no pin, high angled bow, end in diamonds with knobs, 4 half-round cells with scratched floors, probably to key for enamel? Although Weetch (2013) puts this brooch into Type VII.A ('rhomic terminals with corner projections') it is also very close to examples of Type VIII.B (with cross-shaped terminals). Both types are dated to the 8th or 9th centuries.
Created on: Wednesday 9th September 1998
Last updated: Tuesday 12th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LINCOLN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM24
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Bar shaped mound terminating in what appears to be head, large eye, originally inlaid with a stone, beak/jaws ununclear. Preserved rectangular garnet in other end of the fragment, truncated. Transverse grooves between head and rectangular setting. Traces of gilding present. Remains of an integral attachment stud on back.
Created on: Tuesday 19th May 1998
Last updated: Tuesday 29th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: KENT8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Tuesday 12th May 1998
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
Spatial data recorded.