Record ID: OXON-7FC482
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The foot of an incomplete cast copper alloy Early Medieval small-long brooch dating to c. AD 450-550. Only the foot and catchplate of the brooch survives. The head and bow of the brooch are lost to an old break, with only a very small fragment of the apparently sub-rectangular narrow bow extending from the top of the object. Below this is the complete foot. The foot first widens from the bow on either side and then narrows again so that it forms a soft rounded point, the right being slightly chipped. Below this the point the foot is straight sided for a short distance before wid…
Created on: Monday 3rd August 2020
Last updated: Monday 3rd August 2020
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Record ID: OXON-FAFF0E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast and gilt copper-alloy brooch, either a small shallow saucer brooch or a button brooch of early early-medieval date (5th - 6th century AD) with Salin style I decoration. The brooch would have been circular but has been chipped around its circumference so that it is now sub-oval. It is not possible to identify whether the rim would have been upturned or not. The front of the plate has chipped gouged decoration of Stalin style I of disarticulated pieces of at least one animal. This includes a head facing right (indicated in the image in red), the back leg or…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd March 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 26th October 2021
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Record ID: OXON-925546
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (later 5th and 6th centuries) great square-headed brooch fragment: The footplate of the copper alloy brooch remains, with the horizontal broken edge along the upper edge. The break is not recent. The footplate has a central, high-relief drop shaped with a truncated upper edge. The surface of the drop-shape has a moulded inverted human face. The eyes are formed by the outline of two inverted commas, and mouth is a horizontal indentation which has fine vertical grooves suggesting a moustache. The outer face of the footplate has an incomplete gilded surface. The drop-shape…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 26th October 2021
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Record ID: OXON-D3F0E0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy brooch of supporting-arm type, dating c.AD 400-450. The brooch is missing part of its wings and the pin mechanism. The brooch has a rectangular head that is 24.3mm wide and 8.9mm long. The ends of the head project rearwards to form a pair of D-shaped pierced lugs which would have housed a spring. The piercings are now blocked with concreted iron corrosion product which is also present on the back of the plate which are all that remains of pin mechanism. The plate is decorated incised lines placed just inside of its upper and lower edge…
Created on: Friday 6th August 2021
Last updated: Monday 16th August 2021
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Record ID: OXON-26959A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy disc brooch (c. AD 400-600). The pin is missing. The brooch is flat and circular in plan with some chips around the edges. The pin and spring mechanism are missing. At the front there is an incised ring-and-dot motif at the centre which has two concentric circles and a central indentation. This central motif is surrounded by four unevenly spaced ring-and-dot motifs which are of similar size and design as the central one. The rear face has a pin lug and catch-plate with slight turnover which are on the same alignment. …
Created on: Tuesday 10th August 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 24th August 2021
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Record ID: OXON-D3F11E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and incomplete copper alloy Anglo-Saxon disc brooch, flat and originally circular. The front has a punched ring-and-dot motif at the centre, now very worn, surrounded by six similar motifs; a seventh and eighth motif might have been in the missing fragment. The reverse has a single pin lug and the remains of the catch plate. See similar examples in MacGregor and Bolick 1993, 63-65, in particular no. 4.43. It dates to the late 5th or early 6th century AD.
Created on: Tuesday 28th May 2019
Last updated: Friday 23rd October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Watlington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-D3CCD5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy disc brooch of probable early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date. The fragment consists of part of the outer edge and some of the central part of the brooch. The upper side is decorated around the outer edge with repeating punched dots, slightly recessed and retaining traces of white metal (silvering) within. The dots are bound by a thin circumferential linear border, with a second visible towards the centre of the brooch. The reverse is flat and plain. This style of disc brooch is common to the Upper Thames Valley area and similar examples are in collec…
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
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Record ID: OXON-D04D8B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Anglo-Saxon circular copper alloy brooch dating to the period AD 450 - 550. It has a white metal coating. Fits to Early Medieval saucer brooch, recorded - see OXON- DFB312 No photograph
Created on: Wednesday 2nd January 2019
Last updated: Friday 4th October 2019
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Record ID: OXON-DFB312
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval copper alloy saucer brooch, which fits to brooch fragment recorded on Y126B, Oxon PAS record: OXON-D04D8B , with traces of silvering dating to the period AD 450 - 550. No photograph. A third fragment found in 2019 is from the same brooch -
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2019
Last updated: Friday 4th October 2019
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Record ID: OXON-3A8EEE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lozengiform strip brooch of Weetch's type 31.C and of middle early-medieval date. The brooch has a flat lozengiform body which is undecorated. At one of the more acute corners, the body narrows into a rod which curls to form the spring. Most of the spring, and the pin, is missing. At the opposing end of the brooch the foot narrows but is also broken, missing the terminal and the catchplate on the reverse. Previously identified as an incomplete one-piece La Tene III Nauheim type brooch dating to the late Iron Age (c. 50 BC - AD 50), the lack of decoration is a challenge, but it find…
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2018
Last updated: Monday 28th October 2019
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Record ID: OXON-977A36
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (5th to 6th centuries) small-long brooch: The copper alloy brooch has a small square, undecorated, head plate. The reverse of the head plate has an integral, perforated, vertical lug. The bow protrudes from the lower edge of the plate and is narrowed, short, and high-arched (convex on the outer face and concave on the reverse. The bow is sub semi-circular in section. At the lower edge of the bow there is the foot plate, which is a slender trapezoid with a flat, undecorated outer surface. At the junction of the bow and foot plate there are two, fine, parallel ridges, th…
Created on: Wednesday 27th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 12th July 2022
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Record ID: OXON-43560B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon saucer brooch dating from the period c. AD 450-550. The outer, upwards and out-turned rim of the brooch is missing, the metal being worn from old break. The centre of the brooch is decorated with a moulded pattern of six running spirals around a central ring and raised dot design, all enclosed within a circumferential border. Small flecks of white metal on the face indicate the entire face may have once been silvered (such brooches are usually gilded). The reverse has the corroded remains of the integrally cast single pin lug and the pin, wh…
Created on: Wednesday 13th February 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Thame', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-419926
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy penannular brooch of late Roman / early medieval date (4/5th to 7th century c. AD 350-700). The brooch has a circular sectioned curving arm flattening at one end into a curved rectangular plate with moulded linear decoration of double lines arranged in a chevron. The flat is plain and undecorated. A similar object has been recorded from nearby (See BERK-67DE91). Possibly Fowler Type H.
Created on: Monday 25th February 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 8th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bicester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-65D2A2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy saucer brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date (c. AD 450-600). The brooch has an incomplete outwardly-turned rim around a central panel of decoration. The cast decoration is partly obscured by concretion but depicts a central circular motif with an equal-armed cross, and is surrounded by a repeating interlace design possibly of an entwined beast. Gilding survives over much of the outer face. The reverse of the brooch retains both the catch plate and single lug for the pin but iron corrosion adheres to this area, indicative of an iron pin, a common feature of …
Created on: Wednesday 27th February 2019
Last updated: Saturday 2nd March 2019
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Record ID: OXON-6648EA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy saucer brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date (c. AD 450-600). The brooch has an incomplete outwardly-turned rim around a central panel of decoration. The cast decoration is partly obscured by concretion but depicts a central circular motif with an equal-armed cross, and is surrounded by a repeating interlace design possibly of an entwined beast. Gilding survives over much of the outer face. The reverse of the brooch retains both the catch plate and single lug for the pin. This brooch was found along with another of identical design, and this may suggest the …
Created on: Wednesday 27th February 2019
Last updated: Saturday 2nd March 2019
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Record ID: OXON-6B8D7D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy ansate or equal-armed brooch dating to the early medieval (Middle Saxon) period, c. AD 750-900. The brooch has two rounded terminals joined by an arched bow which is D-shaped in section. The terminals are decorated with four punched ring-and-dot motifs; one terminal has three motifs stamped on top of each other. Three ring-and-dot motifs appear on the bow, with V-shaped notches on the edge of bow at the pin lug end. On the reverse of the brooch is a hooked catch and a single pin lug. The pin is missing. Similar brooches were recovered from the Ipswich Town E…
Created on: Wednesday 27th February 2019
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2019
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Record ID: OXON-2CC447
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete cast copper alloy, Early Medieval, small-long brooch dating to c.AD 450-550. Only the pin is missing. The brooch can be divided into three zones, a rectangular head plate, an arched bow and foot with flared terminal. The head plate is rectangular with rounded pointed knops projecting from the middle of the upper and side edges. including these knops the head is 29.8mm wide, 20.3mm high. It has moulded and incsed decoration. On its front it has a rasied rectangular panel running down its centre which itself has a rasied transverse collar at its upper edge…
Created on: Monday 4th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 5th August 2022
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Record ID: OXON-535746
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (5th to 6th centuries) small-long brooch: The copper alloy brooch has a small rectangular, undecorated, head plate which has the top left-hand corner missing. The reverse of the head plate has an integral, incomplete, perforated, vertical lug. The bow protrudes from the lower edge of the plate and is narrowed, short, and high-arched before tapering to the lower segment of the bow. The bow is a 'D' shape in section. At the upper edge of the bow there is a horizontal ridge as decoration. At the lower terminal of the bow there is a wide, horizontal ridge a…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2022
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Record ID: OXON-0125E8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a cast copper-alloy early early-medieval small-long brooch dating to the late  5th or early 6th century AD. The brooch fragment consists of the foot of the brooch only, with a catchplate projecting from its reverse. The foot (photographed upside down) flares from a break at the base of the bow, where it is 6.2mm wide, to a maximum of 12.5mm wide. It is 2.5mm thick at its widest point. The catchplate projecting from the reverse is broadly rectangular, being 9mm long, 3.9mm wide and 1.9mm thick. The front of the fragment has moulded an…
Created on: Thursday 13th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 22nd July 2022
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Record ID: OXON-115795
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast early Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon, c. 450-550)  copper-alloy button brooch. The brooch is missing part of its upturned rim, its pin and part of the lugs for the pin to hinge around and sit within. The brooch comprises a circular base with angled walls (turning outwards) surrounding it creating a 'saucer' shape. On the back of the brooch are two, slightly raised, rectangular raised stubs which are all that remains of the pin mechanism. The face of the brooch is decorated in relief on an abstract forward facing face, possibly a mask or helmet,&…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd November 2021
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2022
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