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.