Record ID: FAHG-7B3D73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy great square-headed brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date, complete with red enamel inlays on head, bow and foot, and with the remains of silver plates on the footplate. Ancient repair on the bow. The brooch has relief decoration in Salin's Style I, and the silver-and-gold colour scheme is known as the Bichrome Style. The brooch fits squarely within Hines's Group X, which is tentatively dated at present to the later part of his Phase 2 (in calendar years, perhaps c. 525-c. 550 AD; Hines in Hunn et al. 1994, 129). Headplate The headplate has a rectangular inner pan…
Created on: Wednesday 9th September 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 10th May 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: FAHG-52BAA5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy S-shaped brooch, small and with relatively simple decoration. The brooch is relatively flat, and solid with no perforations or openwork. It is decorated with two grooves each close to an edge, resulting in a central broad flat-topped ridge flanked by a narrower ridge to either side. At each end is an animal head seen in profile, with a circular groove forming an eye and an open beak or mouth. The lower jaw is curled backwards, and the upper jaw is long and gently curving upwards to meet the edge of the central straight part of the S. One of the heads is very slightly …
Created on: Friday 2nd July 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: FAHG-858AD2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of foot from a florid cruciform brooch, partly distorted by heat. The fragment consists of a decorated triangular panel with traces of an undecorated rectangular terminal below, which has been torn away; the tear has bent the metal before breaking, and the break is now a little worn. The rectangular terminal is separated from the triangular panel by a line of beading. The triangular panel has a relief border, and is filled with Style I decoration, now worn and hence hard to decipher. There may be a single bird, with curly beak filling the apex at the top, body in the centr…
Created on: Thursday 9th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North-west Essex', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAHG-1AD586
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon button brooch of Avent and Evison's Class I, probably Class Ii. Only the centre of the brooch survives, with much of the rim missing. There is hair rather than a helmet, a continuously vertically ribbed crescent around the top of the face. Below the hair are two round pellet eyes, with a groove separating these from the hair; there are no brow ridges. A ridge runs down between the eyes to for the nose. A single squarish boss forms each cheek and between the lower cheeks, below the nose, are two curved blocks making mouth and chin. The curved mouth and chin give th…
Created on: Friday 6th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 17th December 2013
No spatial data available.

Record ID: FAHG-1BBCF6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon cast saucer brooch decorated with five running spirals in chip-carved relief. In the centre is a circular relief ring, and around the edge is a ridge and then an upwards-curving shallow rim, now missing in places. On the reverse is a cast ridge joining a pin bar lug at one end and a catch at the other; both look damaged and incomplete. 5th or 6th century. Pair to FAHG-1BE680.
Created on: Friday 6th December 2013
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
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Record ID: FAHG-1BE680
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete early Anglo-Saxon cast saucer brooch, originally decorated with five running spirals in chip-carved relief; three of these now survive. In the centre is a circular relief ring, and around the edge is a ridge and then an upwards-curving shallow rim. On the reverse is an integrally cast lug, part either of the pin bar lug or the catch 5th or 6th century. Pair to FAHG-1BBCF6.
Created on: Friday 6th December 2013
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
No spatial data available.