Record ID: LIN-9738C0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Two fragments of an Early Medieval brooch, comprising the lower half of the foot-plate of a Frankish copper alloy radiate-headed brooch. The foot is rectangular in plan and cross-section. The front is decorated with two pronounced longitudinal ribs with a narrower one between and to either side. The pronounced ribs are decorated with ring and dot motifs. A short bar transverse rib linking the two main ribs is visible just below the break at the top, and again across the bottom leaving a short flat undecorated panel as a foot. There is a short catchplate on the reverse at the top near t…
Created on: Wednesday 4th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spilsby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-E1FA56
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval gold tremissis. Mint is probably Thire in the Vendee region of Aquitaine. Moneyer is Aegulfomon.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whitstable', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-A0B598
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Frankish copper alloy buckle loop and plate with nine domed bosses. Both the buckle loop and plate are hollow backed, and are silvered on the front. The buckle loop is an elongated oval, 71.11mm long by 39.89mm wide, by 5.64mm thick. Internal width of the strap would be 56.39mm. It has two projecting perforated lugs for attachment to the buckle plate, via an iron pin (now corroded). Two transverse raised ridges on the outer frame form a pin rest. The buckle loop weighs 19.42g. The triangular buckle plate has a worn transverse break across its body. The larger section has two …
Created on: Friday 30th July 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HOLLINGBOURNE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-D1CF77
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Frankish Wheel-Thrown Vessel Early Medieval, late 6th-mid 7th century Height 257mm, diameter 132mm A wheel-thrown pottery bottle with ovoid body, narrow neck and everted rim rounded on top. The bottle has a concave base and a maximum girth around the mid part of the body. Height is 257mm, maximum body diameter is 132mm. Diameter at the mouth is 62mm, at the base 79mm. The vessel weights 956g. Grey sand tempered fabric, the sand grains appears to be sub-angular, single sub-angular stone in the wall of the fabric. The quality and hardness of the fabric sugges…
Created on: Tuesday 20th July 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-672624
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Counter-plate from a Frankish buckle set, cast from a dark, almost black copper alloy. It is roughly triangular, with an indentation in the centre of the short edge to accommodate the protruding end of the buckle's pin, and two long symmetrically shaped sides which taper towards a rounded apex. The reverse is rough and slightly sunken, with two lugs. Each lug is broken across a perforation; that closest to the apex is set longitudinally, and that closest to the wider end is set transversely. The lugs would have been inserted through the leather belt and pins passed through the per…
Created on: Thursday 17th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: KENT5075
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
The head of a radiate-headed brooch.
Created on: Monday 10th February 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT4836
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded silver terminal and stubs of the ends of the raised frame round the foot-plate of a Frankish rectangular or semicircular-headed bow brooch. The terminal is in the form of an animal head with slanting, lentoid eyes, divided by a Y-shaped rib pointing to a broad, transverse band above two narrow, transverse ribs above the damaged, flat, semicircular end. There are also two narrow, V-shaped ribs above the Y, giving a furrowed brow appearance.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT4424
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Anglo-Saxon S-shaped brooch, gilt copper alloy, decorated with Style I animal art on front. Plain back with iron corrosion on surface, probably remains of pin.
Created on: Thursday 18th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.