Record ID: BUC-B6C0E6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval small-long brooch fragment, spatulate terminal of footplate only. There is a band of raised transverse lines just below the break. No catchplate evident.
Created on: Wednesday 4th July 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 17th December 2013
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Record ID: FAJN-038883
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon) saucer brooch dating to the second half of the 6th century, c.AD550-600. Approximately one-third of the brooch remains. The surviving brooch consists of a flat central panel with a plain outer edge of c. 5mm width angled to produce a 'saucer' shape. The reverse is encrusted but appears to be plain and includes one of the attachment lugs for the pin which no longer survives. The front consists of three sections: the plain, angled outer edge within which is a raised plain circle, and inside this a decorated central field. This c…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 5th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Faringdon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAJN-03B792
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon annular brooch of quoit form, 39mm in diameter and with a band 11-12mm wide. The inner hole is c. 16mm in diameter. It has a circular pin hole c. 2.5-3mm in diameter, seet closer to the inner edge than the outer. Opposite the pin hole is a V-shaped notch for the pin to pass through; the edges of the V each have a raised border or flange to stop the pin slipping back through the notch. This flange or 'stop' is the characteristic which defines this as a quoit form (Ager 1985, 1). It is decorated with stamped punchmarks, a ring of widely spaced small annulets around the ou…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2008
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Faringdon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-2BABC7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy equal-armed brooch of early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (5th/6th century AD), incomplete only in that it is missing its pin. The flat arms are both triangular with rounded knops at each corner. One, at 18.55mm, is slightly longer than the other, at 16.05mm. The faceted bow that joins the arms curves in a shallowly raised arc. The diagonal sides of the arms are decorated on their upper surface with punched annulets. The lower surface is plain, and features a sub-trapezoidal catch-plate on one arm adjacent to the bow, and a broken D-shaped pin lug on the other, again…
Created on: Tuesday 19th May 2009
Last updated: Monday 23rd March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-5B0275
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy early-medieval cloisonné brooch dating to the late 10th or 11th century. The brooch has seven peripheral lugs of which five survive, one of which retains a domed blue glass insert. The front of the brooch has a raised circular insert that fits into the hollow rimed section of the lugged disc. The central insert is ornately enamelled with a design of a six-spoked wheel or star. Six C-shaped strips of copper alloy form semi-circular fields around the edge of the brooch. Each semi-circular field is filled with dark blue glass. In the centre is light blue enamel, surroundi…
Created on: Thursday 6th January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chinnor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-73B052
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon 'button' brooch, dating to the mid 5th-6th century. The brooch is saucer shaped with an upturned rim. An anthropomorphic face mask adorns the centre of the brooch in raised relief. The brooch can be catagorised as Avent & Evison's Class Bi. This brooch, as is typical of its class, has almost horizontal eyebrows, defined helmet (with a u-shape at its peak), defined eyes and cheeks (in some examples these elements can sometimes be joined togeter) and a well defined mouth. The brooch is gilded on the upper surface only, the reverse is plain and retains onl…
Created on: Friday 7th January 2011
Last updated: Monday 14th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chinnor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-D4C6D2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy gilded Anglo-Saxon saucer brooch dating from the 5th - 6th centuries AD. The brooch is incomplete, retaining about two-thirds of the complete object. The catch plate and pin are missing, while part of the pin mount survives. The relief-cast decoration consists of a panel of four anti-clockwise animals in Salin's Style I, only three now visible in the surviving part of the brooch. Each animal comprises a profile, 'helmeted', head-surround with coiled nape at the neck, an eye, two cheek bars and a leg with clawed foot, bent up behind the back of the head. This des…
Created on: Friday 14th May 2010
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-7E30F2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An ansate, or equal-ended, brooch of middle to late Saxon date and complete save for the missing iron pin. The brooch has an arched bow and flat rounded terminals, both of which bear a cross within a circle. The designs are both crudely engraved. This brooch belongs to Weetch's type II.Aiii, disc-shaped terminals with engraved geometric ornament. The type is dated from the 8th to the 10th centuries (Weetch 2013, 144).
Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2010
Last updated: Thursday 1st November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-E0FC63
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon Great Square-headed Brooch, dating from the early to mid-6th century AD. The brooch is gilded and is decorated in Salin's Style I, with a outer border of anthropomorphic masks around the head of the brooch - the masks in the upper two corners of the head of the brooch are raised. These raised masks are repeated beneath the bow of the brooch on both the left and right projections, and a large raised mask adorns the rounded foot termial of the brooch. The panels between the masks are decorated with possible zoomorphic images of indeterminate nature. The …
Created on: Wednesday 1st September 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 24th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bicester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-E50DB8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A circular plate brooch of early medieval date, now very worn. The brooch has a circular central aperture but no decoration is now visible. On the back survive the stubs of both hinge and catchplate.
Created on: Thursday 26th May 2011
Last updated: Friday 3rd June 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-9CB075
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a cast copper alloy Early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon) small long brooch, dating from the 5th to 6th Centuries AD. The brooch fragment consists only of the foot, which flares outwards from the bow into a rounded terminal. There are two centrally placed annulets along the spine of the bow, one of which is across the break - this top annulet appears to have been pierced right through the brooch; at the flared terminal of the brooch is another two annulets, again one of which appears to go through to the reverse of the brooch; above these two annulets is an inverted triangle in…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 22nd September 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BH-6F3334
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) small-long brooch, dating from the mid 5th to mid 6th centuries. Only the rectangular headplate survives, a scar at the centre of the bottom side indicating the former position of the bow. The only decoration of the headplate consists of a line of punched double arcs which extends around the perimeter, the only gap being at the point from which the bow sprang. The pin attachment survives intact, located midway along the bottom side. It forms a right-angle with the back of the headplate, has a rounded top side, below which is a circular p…
Created on: Saturday 1st October 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Watlington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NCL-351555
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy saucer brooch, now incomplete, but still a large and highly decorated example of this type of brooch, dating to the sixth century AD. The saucer has a depth of 12.56mm, measured perpendicularly from the internal face of the saucer to the height of the wall. The inside walls are undecorated, but the base of the saucer has shallow chip-carved decoration with very slight traces (1x1mm) of gilding on the decorated surface in two places. The description of the decoration here is that of the panels and features in relief. The decoration consists of a lar…
Created on: Monday 14th April 2008
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-59B2F7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval (Anglo Saxon) small long brooch (5th-6th century). The brooch has a square head with a punched border of dots. A twin or a single lug is surrounded by a lump of iron corrosion from the remains of the spring, the pin is now missing. The bow is arched and carinated in front and flat behind with mouldings at the top and bottom forming faceted corners. Decorative mouldings forming three grooves and four ridges decorate the top of the foot. The foot is fan-shaped with punched dots around the edges forming a border. Dimensions: length 63.17mm; width 20.76mm; thickness 18.4…
Created on: Wednesday 27th August 2008
Last updated: Monday 14th October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wantage', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-A2C187
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Anglo-Saxon button brooch with angular rim retaining most of the upper surface gilding. The brooch is in very good condition, but missing the pin bar. The brooch has a stylised anthropomorphic face mask, with sub-rounded eyes linked to a triangular shaped nose contained within an oval with pointed ends that is in turn set within a raised concentric circle and plain border. The brooch measures 18.12mm in diameter, is 3.95mm deep and weighs 5.5gms.
Created on: Friday 11th September 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clifton Hampden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-736F96
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Anglo-Saxon supporting-arm bow brooch dating from the first few decades of the fifth century AD. This example has an expanding head terminal for the copper alloy spring and iron pin (now missing). The body of the brooch is an arched bow tapering from the head down towards the foot. The body of the brooch is decorated with two incised transverse grooves at the top, a central vertical groove down the bow, and another two transverse grooves above where the expanded foot would have been (also missing). The brooch, although incomplete, is in good condition and measures 21.97mm long; the he…
Created on: Tuesday 27th October 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-CD5492
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval (Viking) copper alloy trefoil brooch (AD850-950). The brooch is tri-lobed with one lobe broken and missing. On the reverse of one of the lobes are twin perforated lugs, probably to hold a pin. There is no trace of a catchplate but that may be on the missing section of the brooch. The front surface is decorated with a carved zoomorphic motif that is repeated on each of the lobes. At the top of the each lobe, in the centre of the brooch, is an animal's face with a triangular nose and two pellets for the eyes. Each lobe is filled with a circular interlaced pattern and f…
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 7th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-B45343
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early Medieval (Anglo Saxon) copper-alloy fragment, probably from a flat circular disc brooch (mid 5th to mid 6th century AD). The front of the disc is decorated with a large off-centre stamped ring-and-dot motif,with smaller ring-and-dots forming a border around the edge. The larger ring-and-dot was originally identified as having inlaid enamel in its grooves, but this seems unlikely and is not visible on the image. The reverse is undecorated and there are no surviving fixings, probably due to so much of the brooch being absent. Mid green patina. Dimensions: length 21.41mm…
Created on: Friday 3rd November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 22nd March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Oxford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-A89520
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper alloy button brooch (AD450-550). The circular brooch had the remains of the catchplate and double lugs on the reverse with a few traces of iron corrosion. The pin is no longer present. The raised edges of the brooch are broken, so that the face of the brooch is all one level. The breaks have the same mid-dark green patina as the reverse. The front of the brooch has a carved stylized human face/anthropomorphic face mask. Carved curvilinear lines depict centrally parted hair, prominent brows, lentoid eyes with underlines and a down-turned moustache…
Created on: Monday 10th April 2006
Last updated: Friday 13th December 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-D96141
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper alloy saucer brooch (5th-early 7th century). On the reverse are the remains of a single lug and catchplate. No trace of the spring or the pin remains. Approximately 50% of the rim and part of the face of the brooch is missing. The breaks have the same dark green patina as the rest of the surface suggesting the damage occurred in antiquity. The remaining rim has a flared profile. The decoration is cast within the central flat field. The design comprises six running spirals around a central circular motif - probably a ring and dot, but it is now…
Created on: Wednesday 31st May 2006
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
Spatial data recorded.