Record ID: KENT-F9D7C2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small cast copper alloy bow brooch, with sub-triangular headplate and footplate. The brooch is similar to examples of small equal-armed brooches, although this example is not symmetrical, the headplate being slightly shorter than the footplate. It is thus also very similar to examples of miniature radiate-headed brooches, and perhaps sits somewhere between the two types. The reverse has remains of the iron pin and spring surviving, possibly with traces of mineralised textile preserved in the corrosion products. Compare IOW-FE1124, and an example from a 6th-century grave at Frilford…
Created on: Monday 25th June 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2018
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Record ID: KENT-91C1D6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy bow brooch. The brooch comprises a bow without headplate, and a footplate. For most of its length (18.66mm) the bow has an ovoid cross-section, with flat sides and a ventral ridge. However, at the junction with the pin and spring, at its mid-point and at the junction with the foot the bow has thickened rectangular sections. With the exception of the section of bow at the junction with the foot, which is plain, these sections are decorated with three transverse v-shaped grooves which have probably been incised. There are what appear to be three faint file marks on…
Created on: Monday 2nd July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT-45A4E1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy cruciform brooch, comprising the head-plate and part of the bow. The head-plate has an integral half-round knob projecting from its top edge and incomplete lateral wings. One of the wings is damaged, with deep lines gouged in its front surface. On the back of the head-plate is a single perforated lug to which the (now missing) iron pin and spring wold have been attached. The bow has a worn transverse break just below the junction with the headplate. The front surfaces of both the headplate and bow are decorated with rows of incised or punched lines and dots.
Created on: Wednesday 21st November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT-425A34
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy early medieval brooch. This bow brooch is of an unusual type. It has an oval headplate with two lugs on the reverse, between which survives the corroded remains of the iron spring and pin bar. The bow has a curved cross-section, but a rectangular cross-section at the junctions with the head and foot-plates. The centre of the bow has a flattened circular section on its front, giving a disc-on-bow appearance. The foot-plate is straight, but terminates in a circular knop. The front of the foot-plate is decorated with a series of incised transverse lines. A catch-p…
Created on: Monday 3rd December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: KENT-FC33F2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy miniature radiate-headed brooch. The terminal of the foot-plate is missing. No trace of the (presumably iron) spring or pin survives on the reverse, although both the catch-plate and lug for attachment of the spring are present.
Created on: Wednesday 12th December 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2018
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Record ID: KENT-17AFA6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy ansate brooch of 8th- or 9th-century date. The bow is arched in profile and of 'D' section, composed of four flat semi-globular segments divided by horizontal plain ribs with shorter ones each end. There is a rusty stain from the iron pin that hinged from one lug to the catch plate at the foot. Length 40.5mm, Width 8.3mm, Thickness 10.8mm, Weight 8.3g. This brooch is probably of English manufacture, but the type is originally Frankish/Merovingian. It is of Hubener (1972) Gruppe 9. Hubener does not illustrate an exact parallel, but on Abb.20 are …
Created on: Tuesday 10th February 2009
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2011
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Record ID: KENT-EC16D1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Early Medieval copper-alloy ansate brooch dating from 700-1000 AD. The brooch appears to have been in contact with fire, so many of the details are unclear. The brooch has an angled bow-shaped profile, with a fan-shaped protrusion at either end. There is moulded decoration encirculing the bow at its roundest point. The reverse of the brooch is convex and there are the remains of the catch plate at one end. Similar examples can be seen in Hattatt (2000) p380. The brooch is 41.4mm long, 9.3mm wide, 4.3mm thick and weighs 9.9g.
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chislet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-8AF453
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an early-medieval copperalloy Small Long brooch dating to the fifth or sixth century AD. The fragment comprises the head plate and a portion of the bow. The head plate is very worn but could have been originally rectangular. Some decoration remains on the head in the form of punched dots between parallel lines. The head plate extends to an arched D section bow which is broken. On the underside of the head plate is a single semi-circular perforated lug. The lug is surrounded by iron corrosion products. The fragment measures 24.3mm in length. The head plate is 18.3mm wi…
Created on: Friday 17th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 27th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Minster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-8B44C6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Early Medieval copper alloy small-long or cruciform brooch dating to the fifth or sixth century AD. The fragment comprises only the bow so it is not possible to distinguish between the two classifications, but it is of the proportions of a cruciform. The bow is D shaped in section and is decorated with horizontal lines along the length. The breaks at the head and the foot of the brooch are both old breaks. The fragment is 39.6mm long, 7.5mm wide, 5mm thick and weighs 6.5 grams.
Created on: Friday 17th April 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Minster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-5A0962
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Early Medieval brooch. The head, the bow and part of the foot are present. The head is hemispherical and flat. The bow is rectangular in plan, with a D-shaped cross-section and is short. It arches out from the head at an almost 90 degree angle, and then curves back round. Where the bow meets the foot are two small protruding knops at the sides. The foot again rectangular in plan, but is flat and slightly wider than the bow. The brooch is decorated and there is remains of gilding. The front of the head of the brooch has a liner dot border around the edg…
Created on: Friday 1st April 2011
Last updated: Monday 4th April 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elham', grid reference and parish protected.