Record ID: YORYM-CB94B2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2007 T445. Viking-period hacksilver fragment from the terminal of an Irish type of brooch. Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content for the fragment of over 90%, with copper, gold and lead. The find comprises an irregular, four-sided fragment of cast plate which has been cut from the terminal of a bossed penannular brooch; length, 20 mm. There are remains of incised decoration including half of a plain roundel to one side, enclosed by a plain, divided frame that projects from one point on the circumference…
Created on: Wednesday 10th October 2007
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snape with Thorp', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-2A29B3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Anglo-Saxon coin-brooch. The object is a silver penny of Edward the Confessor (1042-66), of the Hammer Cross type, c. AD 1060, which has been mounted as a brooch or badge. The original coin was minted in Thetford, probably by the moneyer Godlef, although the secondary treatment of the coin means that most of the inscription is no longer legible, with only __FONÐET__, from the middle of the reverse inscription clearly legible. The reverse of the coin, showing a cross, has been gilded for display, and five holes have been pierced in the coin, one in the centre and one at the end o…
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 8th December 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-9F34F6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a composite silver disc brooch of rosette shape, with inlaid garnets and silver filigree ornament; it dates to the early part of the early-medieval period and is perhaps of Frankish manufacture. Six of twelve trapezoidal cells around the edge are extant, each with a convex outer edge and set with a cloisonné garnet on pointillé gold foil. These radiate from a circle containing two elliptical cells set with cloisonné garnets and a central panel with silver wire spirals on a silver backplate. Where the radiating cells have been broken, reddish brown material can be s…
Created on: Friday 23rd January 2009
Last updated: Monday 22nd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'King's Lynn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DA5243
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Less than one third of a Kentish silver jewelled disc brooch, rim missing. The central cell is empty. Three outer cells are extant, one circular filled with decayed blue glass paste, one D-shaped filled with similar but paler material and another circular, empty and distorted. Style I zoomorphic motifs fill the spaces between the outer cells and a pelleted circle surrounds the central cell. On the reverse there are the crushed remains of a double pin lug. Much of the surfaces are obscured by adherent soil. Avent (1975) Class 7.4. Early Saxon. Mid to late 6th century. >25 x >16.5mm. We…
Created on: Monday 26th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 18th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-013F85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver gilt knob from a radiate-headed brooch, with a hollow underside and perforated ends. The front is decorated with a mask comprising eyebrows, a nasal ridge between the eyes within pairs of concentric ribs, and nostrils. Cf. Ashley et al (1990), fig.1, no.3, and other knobs from Fransham and Marham.
Created on: Monday 9th February 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Hunstanton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-412F26
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a silver ansate brooch. Flat terminal in the form of a rectangular, moulded, 12-petalled flower. Slightly narrowed rectangular-sectioned bow broken across beginning of expansion, probably remains of a central decorative rectangle matching the terminal. Incomplete narrow catch-plate on reverse of terminal. Length at least 20mm, width of terminal 13mm, width of bow 11mm, weighing 4.28g. Of Weetch's type XII.B, possibly similar to an example in Thörle, 2001, Taf. 57, 4. 8th or 9th century.
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 1st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Tuddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-92B213
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete large silver disc brooch of late Early-Medieval date and Weetch type 10.B (Sutton type). The plate is flat, circular in shape and is missing the separately cast pin, three separate areas of the exterior edge and a small area from one side of the brooch due to old breaks or possible plough damage. The front face of the disc carries incised and applied decoration. The applied decoration comprises a central projecting cone or boss with flattened, rounded top that measures 10.24mm in diameter at base and 9.52mm in height. Eight similar bosses are positioned evenly around …
Created on: Thursday 12th March 2009
Last updated: Monday 12th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bredfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-21EE96
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a bow brooch, heavily cast in low-grade silver alloy. Curved bow fragment decorated with arches set inside rectangular frames. Most of the object has broken away, but there are remains of a plate at one end of the bow. The back is plain except for a triangular tab where the bow meets the still preserved plate fragment. and a large, transverse crack. 5th century. Treasure report from Dr. Sonja Marzinzik: The rectangular, partly damaged frame of the bow suggests that this was part of a wide equal-armed brooch. This is further supported by the similarity of the arch …
Created on: Thursday 19th March 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 14th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Northampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-C938C0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) silver-gilt Kentish type keystone brooch with garnets. Diameter: 22.9mm; thickness: 6.3mm; weight: 3.26g. Treasure case no. 2009 T187. An incomplete, Kentish, silver-gilt, keystone garnet disc brooch with the rim missing. A raised beaded border has partially survived. The border, when complete, enclosed three cells containing keystone garnets divided by three gilded fields, all abutting a central circular cell. The garnets are set over gold foil. However, one garnet is missing. Each gilded field between the keystone cells is decorated with a single h…
Created on: Wednesday 8th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 18th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-65C2A1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A fragment of a silver possible Anglo-Saxon brooch. This fragment has old breaks on all edges and is now roughly triangular in shape. The front face has traces of worn possibly chip carved decoration, what is depicted is very unclear. The back face is rough and also worn. Dimensions:10.66mm by 10.41mm in size, 2.38mm in thickness and 0.83g in weight. Discussion: This fragment is really too small to identify its original function but a brooch fragment, possibly from a square headed brooch does seem likely. The precious metal content of this possible brooch f…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd June 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MID SUFFOLK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-69F8D8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A fragment of a possible silver gilt Anglo Saxon brooch, perhaps a fragment of the catch plate area of a square headed brooch. The fragment is very worn and none of the edges appear to be original. It is roughly rectangular in shape but one short edge is diagonal. The chip carving consists of four border grooves and the surviving part of the design within these appears to depict the lower halves of two scroll like motifs with a pellet between them. One of these motifs may have an open work hole through it or this could be due to wear or damage. On the back face there…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd June 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MID SUFFOLK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-6D3516
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Almost complete cast silver/copper-alloy radiate-headed brooch of early-medieval date. It has a semi-circular headplate with raised outer border, and within this two raised lines following the outline; in the centre there is a semi-circular zone of vertical lines. The brooch probably originally had five baluster-shaped projections with moulded terminals but only two incomplete ones remain, with the rest of the perimeter of the headplate being damaged. The rectangular bow is wide with a shallow arch just below the radiate head and expands towards the bottom. The front is moulded with a…
Created on: Wednesday 19th January 2011
Last updated: Monday 13th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Asgarby Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-EDD8D2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A fragment of flat decorated gilded silver. It appears to have been irregularly cut, most probably from a lozenge-shaped brooch. The surviving edge has two circular lobes projecting side by side from the corner of the lozenge, each decorated with a central raised dot and a pair of concentric ridges. Of the two remaining edges, one is ragged and the other is cleanly cut. The interior of the plate is decorated with a linear border made up of a narrow outer and a wide inner ridge with traces of punched circles on it, forming the angle of the lozenge. Within this is worn re…
Created on: Tuesday 25th January 2011
Last updated: Monday 13th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heckington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-322D11
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: The find consists of the gilded silver head-plate and half of the bow of what appears to be either an early form of Germanic equal-arm brooch, or a supporting-arm brooch. It has a narrow, rectangular head-plate with an indentation at each end and is decorated with two panels inside beaded frames, each containing a scroll and pellet in low relief bounded by lines of punched arcs; length, 26mm (surviving); width, 25mm. The bow adjoins one of the long sides and the remaining part of it is concave-sided triangular in shape with billeted borders and a median rib between two ch…
Created on: Friday 18th March 2011
Last updated: Monday 13th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tendring District', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-723345
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Two fragments of an Anglo-Saxon square-headed brooch, made of silver, partly gilded and inlaid with niello. The headplate and foot are present however the bow is missing. The breaks are jagged and appear to be of relatively recent occurance. The rectangular head plate is missing much of its lower edge. It is decorated with a raised three-sided frame containing two rows of niello-inlaid triangular cells. Within the frame is a panel of Style I ornament, with further Style I animals outside the frame. On the reverse of the headplate is a single pierced lug. The gilding does not continu…
Created on: Monday 21st March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aunsby and Dembleby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-251EC5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
The brooch is made of an Anglo-Saxon silver penny of the Sovereign type of Edward the Confessor (1042-66), issued in the late 1050s by the moneyer Ægelwerd of London. Although it is difficult to be certain given the secondary treatment, it appears to be struck from the same reverse dies (and possibly the same obverse dies) as an example in the British Museum collection, BMC ii, p. 412, no. 998. The coin has been gilded on the reverse and has been pierced three times so that brooch fittings could be secured to the obverse with rivets. This is part of a growing body of similar fin…
Created on: Friday 11th June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stockbridge Down', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-1E08E5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A fragment of incomplete silver early Anglo-Saxon small-long brooch, with only the head surviving. The head is rectangular with U-shaped cut-outs forming a cross shape; there are small punched crescents along its edges on the front. On the reverse there is an integral pin lug with a mass of corroded iron surrounding and within it from the pin. The brooch is much worn and it seems likely that it is incomplete, with an old worn break across the top of the bow. Its dark grey colour, with silvery areas, suggested that the brooch was silver or copper-alloy with tinning. Dim…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 11th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pettistree', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-9B7487
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
In September 2003 and November 2004, two joining fragments of a late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon silver openwork disc brooch were found at Heckington, Lincolnshire. Description: Within a circular shape in a beaded border, the pattern cut out is that of an equal-armed cross with double cusped expanded arms. The cut-out 'armpits' would have been embellished by an additional pattern, of which only a volute on the left-hand side of fragment (A) survives. Fragment (A) corresponds to the expanded arms of the cross, and is decorated with vegetation motifs at the attenuated spandrels, and wi…
Created on: Tuesday 29th June 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 24th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Heckington Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EE1733
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment, probably of the side of a footplate of a silver gilt square-headed brooch. Part of a concave-sided lozengiform panel of animal ornament within a frame inlaid with niello triangles. The extant corner has a triple grooved rounded lobe. There is an intact moulded edge along one part of the frame, and a broken stub of something similar on other. As no parallel has been found for the use of animal ornament in the panel, it remains possible that this a mount. 6th century At least 20 x at least 17mm. Maximum thickness 1.8mm. Weighing 2.07g.
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-F29BC1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Footplate of incomplete gilded silver great square-headed brooch, which joins a fragment discovered 15/11/08, reported as case 2008T14 and recorded as NMS-750C07; see this for more detail on the brooch as a whole. The fragment is decorated with gilt 'chip-carved' Style I ornament with a human-like mask in the lower centre, within an outer band of niello with a silver zigzag line which follows the concave edges except where interrupted by the side and terminal lobes. The brooch is broken across the lappets. The footplate side lobes consist of a concave moulding with two transverse b…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Friday 4th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.