Record ID: GLO-8D5E03
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early-Medieval copper-alloy strip brooch, length 40mm, width 23mm, thickness 1mm, weight 4.28g. The brooch consists of an undecorated flat lozenge-shaped plate. The integral spring emerges from the top corner of the brooch and coils once before straightening to form the pin; the rest of the pin is now missing. At the opposite corner is a small protruding rod that is bent back on itself and would have acted as a catchplate. Geake (2001, 23-24) notes that recent examples from North Lincolnshire and Sedgeford (Norfolk) have confirmed a Middle Saxon date for this type of brooch, with t…
Created on: Friday 3rd June 2011
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Gloucestershire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-7BF286
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy small-long brooch. The head plate is trapezoidal in plan and undecorated. The reverse of the head plate has an integral vertical lug with a circular perforation situated at the centre of the lower edge of the head plate. The bow comprises a short, high-arched segment with a small decorative collar or band near the lower edge of the bow. There is a short narrowed section of the brooch which is integral to the terminal of the bow. This is the start of the brooch foot. On the reverse of this section there is an integral solid catchplate. Otherwise the majo…
Created on: Monday 24th March 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: WMID757
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
The item is a flat copper alloy fragment which is possibly a fragment of a circle. On the upper face of the fragment there is a small sub-rectangular indentation. In this area on the reverse there is a small lug protruding at right-angles to the reverse face. The lug has a small indentation along its edge. This maybe the remains of a hole in the lug. Around this possible hole is traces of iron corrosion. The iron could be the remains of an iron pin.
Created on: Friday 27th August 1999
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GLOUCESTERSHIRE TODENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-D4BC12
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy annular brooch of quoit type, internal diameter 25mm, external diameter 39mm, thickness 2mm, weight 6.16g. This is a flat annular plate with a hole for the pin. On the opposite side, on the inside edge, is a small tapering rectangular notch flanked by raised lips 5mm long and 2mm wide. The tip of the pin could pass through the notch when securing the brooch a garment, and then be held in place by the raised lips. The decoration covers the upper surface, comprising of two recessed rectangular lines, each running around one half of the surface, there is a recess running dow…
Created on: Friday 31st March 2006
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cotswolds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-DAC114
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy bird brooch of Weetch type 30.A, length 45mm, height 36mm, thickness 8mm, weight 14.55g. The head has a crest comprising of three tufts of feathers, ring and dot eye in the centre of the head and a long droopy beak projects from the front. The offside wing is represented by a triangular projection on the animals back, this has linear markings representing feathers. The nearside wing is represented by an engraved teardrop that is flat against the body, again this has linear marking representing feathers. Fan-shaped tail also with linear markings and a jagged edge. The…
Created on: Thursday 24th August 2006
Last updated: Friday 23rd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stroud', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-ABE2D2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy detachable side knob from a florid cruciform brooch. Length 22mm, width 31mm, thickness 5mm. The knob is mushroom-shaped and highly decorated, in the form of a face mask with large round eyes in the centre; there is a rectangular projection above this which would have been attached to the head plate of the brooch. On the reverse of this rectangular projection are two small copper-alloy rivets. These are also just visible from the front of the brooch and so it seems likely that they are separately made, perhaps representing a modification. The mask is flanked by …
Created on: Wednesday 28th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bishops Cleeve', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-1A8BD6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The object is a fragment of a brooch. It is made from cast copper alloy. The upper portion of the brooch is a sub-square shape in plan, however the upper and left-hand vertical edge are abraded, the right-hand vertical edge is less abraded. The outer face of this portion is undecorated. On the reverse, towards the lower edge is an integral lug, which is a rectangular shape, with the vertical edge being broken. This edge has an incomplete hole in the centre. Around this lug is iron corrosion, suggesting the pin was originally made from iron. Protruding and integral to the lower edge of…
Created on: Monday 21st November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: GLO-1882A3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy disc brooch, length 41mm, width 39mm, thickness 11mm, weight 13.32g. The brooch is a slightly uneven oval, made from sheet copper alloy only 1mm thick. Running around the circumference of the face is an incised line 3mm from the edge; there is also a ring and dot in the centre. All have been cut or carved into the surface. On the reverse is the catch plate and pin support. The pin support is a single tab 11mm tall, 9mm long and 5mm wide, this narrows towards the top where it is partially truncated. At the top is a circular hole, which has iron corrosion in the cent…
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 6th December 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: GLO-4E0EBD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy equal armed brooch comprising of two opposing triangular plates that are joined by an arched bow. The brooch is decorated with recessed linear and ring designs depicting a bordered face-mask on each plate which are consistent with Style I. The decoration comprises of, on one plate, a cluster of three small rings in the centre with a double line below and a ring in each corner, while on the other plate are two rings with three lines below, and a ring in the tip. A double linear double linear border surrounds each plate and either side of the bow. The reverse has the cat…
Created on: Thursday 13th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HESH-7EC6C3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An eroded and abraded fragment of copper alloy - most probably the remains of an Anglo-Scandinavian interlace brooch of later early medieval or medieval date 1000- 1100 AD. The brooch is heavily eroded and partially preserved; it is broadly triangular in plan and D shaped in cross section. The upper face has the remains of an interlaced design whilst the reverse is flat and undecorated. On the edge of the reverse face are the rmenants of two cast pierced projections from which a hinged pin would have fitted. The artefact is a mid purplish brown colour with an abraded slightly dusty su…
Created on: Thursday 15th January 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 5th September 2017
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NMGW-65B987
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A middle early-medieval copper-alloy brooch of 8th- to early 9th-century date. The brooch is fragmentary, represented by the distorted upper bow and part of the spring only (with a surviving distorted length of 30.3mm, a surviving depth of 14.9mm and a weight of 2.5g). The circular-sectioned spring is integral to the bow and has one and a half surviving coils before the break (with a surviving width of 5.0mm and a diameter of 1.8mm). It is now unclear whether the missing chord was external or internal. The bow is of sheet copper alloy (1.0mm thick) with one surviving side, which is…
Created on: Monday 26th January 2015
Last updated: Thursday 28th April 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-937403
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy Early-Medieval Geat Square-Headed brooch, possibly relating to Hines group I, c.AD 500-550. Description: The fragment survives as an irregulalry shaped section of the central headplate panel and upper bow of the brooch. The bow is very shallow with a raised border and a central ridge which creates two panels on the bow. The central ridge extend from the bow into the central headplate panel. Each panel has stylised Salin style I zoomorphic designs possibly with downwards facing beasts aligned with feet to the median ridge. The central panel of the h…
Created on: Wednesday 14th September 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dumbleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-B4F29D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A mostly complete copper alloy early Medieval disc brooch. The outer face is divided into four quarters with crossed double lines with a line of dots in between. Further parallel lines of dots run outside these lines with two on each side. Two parallel diagonal lines of dots run through each quarter. A single line of dots circles the outside edge. There is a plate and loop attached to the back of sub- rectangular plan. The loop protrudes outwards and is incomplete.
Created on: Friday 31st July 2015
Last updated: Thursday 15th October 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-C5F154
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete middle early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon) lozengiform strip brooch of c. 8th-century date (Weetch Type 31.C). The brooch is of one-piece construction and has been broken at the opposing narrow apexes, respectively where the sprung wire pin would have continued, and the catch-plate would have been located. The front of the brooch has a tooled ('chip-carved') Greek key design consisting of four separate lozenge-shaped elements with coiled decoration arranged symmetrically, thus creating a cross in saltire between them. Traces of gilding are visible in the recesses of the design,…
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2017
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coberley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-0DBD86
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Early Medieval small long brooch. This is broken at the top of the bow resulting in the loss of the headplate. The bow is formed from a small and simple arch that heads to the foot consisting of a long flat panel that extends at the base to from an expanded crescent or square terminal, unfortunately the lower edge is now damaged. Running around the border of the plate is a stamped border (sub-triangular stamps) that leads up onto the flat panel, where there are a series of small transverse ridges. On the reverse, just below the bow, are the remains of the corroded a…
Created on: Wednesday 9th June 2021
Last updated: Monday 21st June 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: GLO-7243DE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete small, long copper alloy brooch of probable Early Medieval date (AD.500-700). The object comprises the foot and small part of the bow most of the bow. The foot is oval shaped with two diagonal notched lines in the centre creating a chevron and two small recessed lines on the forward edge. To the rear the arch of the bow has a D-shaped cross-section, at the truncated terminal is the remains of a dished recess that may have held a stone.
Created on: Monday 29th April 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 15th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cotswolds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-A32875
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Early Medieval small long brooch. This item has a square head plate with arms projecting from the sides and top, unfortunately most of the arms are now truncated meaning that we are unable to determine their original form. The short bow has a semi-circular cross-section with a high arch in profile. Below the foot is mostly complete but is heavily worn which would have removed any detail that may have been present. On the reverse of the is the base of a truncated catch plate, there is a rearwards facing pierced lug on the reveres of the head plate that would have held th…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd May 2017
Last updated: Thursday 4th May 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tewkesbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-F2CEA7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval cloisonné disc brooch of 10th to 11th century date,AD 900 - 1100. The sub-circular brooch has 3 lobes projecting around the edge with probably 4 others which are not missing. The lobes are decorated with a low-relief conical which originally probably held a fitting such as a bead of glass. The edge of the brooch is off-set compared to the central portion of the brooch. The central portion of the brooch is circular and has a thin copper alloy border within which it is decorated. The decoration is in the form of a quatrefoil of dark green/black enamel on a dark blue e…
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2016
Last updated: Monday 6th March 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: GLO-785174
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early-Medieval copper-alloy narrow strip brooch, length 48mm, width 9mm, thickness 13mm, weight 3.94g. The brooch consists of an undecorated flat lozenge-shaped plate. The integral spring emerges from the top corner of the brooch and coils once before straightening to form the pin; the pin is now distorted but complete. At the opposite corner is a small protruding rod that is bent back on itself and would have acted as a catchplate. Geake (2001, 23-24) notes that recent examples from North Lincolnshire and Sedgeford (Norfolk) have confirmed a Middle Saxon date for this type of br…
Created on: Friday 24th August 2012
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cotswolds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-E063BD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Anglo-Saxon gilded copper-alloy saucer brooch dated to AD450-550. The item is circular in shape with an upturned rim that is angled outward at an approximate 45-degree angle. The brooch is decorated with a raised central stud surrounded by a pentagonal recess; this is then surrounded by a five-pointed star formed from five concave arches of double recessed lines. Enclosing this is a border of two recessed concentric circles and a wavy/zigzag border on the outside edge. On the reverse is a pierced tab for the pin, this still retains a curl of corroded iron which is the remains…
Created on: Tuesday 15th January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 24th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burford area', grid reference and parish protected.