Record ID: PAS-795917
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Anglo-Saxon brooch, made from a silver penny, to which a hinged pin and catch plate have been rivetted. The pin and catch plate are attached to the obverse, with two rivets each, with the effect that the reverse design of a cross is displayed as the front of the brooch. This side of the coin has been heavily gilded for added effect. The coin is a silver penny of the Expanding Cross type of Edward the Confessor; issued by the moneyer Brand of Winchester. This type dates from the early 1050s although the precise dating is controversial. Published in Williams (2001, 62; no. 5)
Created on: Thursday 21st April 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 8th December 2021
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Record ID: PAS-D30EA3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
The fragment forms part of the foot-plate of an Anglo-Saxon miniature square-headed brooch. The terminal is broken off and the opposite end rises slightly to an old break across the end of the bow of the brooch. On the back is the projecting stub of a pin-catch. In the centre of the plate is a plain, flat lozenge enclosed by a narrow rib, and the whole is bordered by a raised flat frame decorated with small nielloed triangles; there is a plain lobe at either side. In the angle between each of these lobes and the end of the bow is a stylised animal motif in Salin's Style I consisting of…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Breamore', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-D36287
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Published
The fragment comprises the bow and part of the semi-circular head-plate of a Frankish radiate-headed brooch. It is cast in white metal, which has not been analysed but is possibly silver, and three of the original five plain knobs round the head remain. The head is decorated with an arc of repeating scrolls and the bow has a median rib which develops into a raised ovoid `disc' on the top. The border rib of the head and the mid-rib of the bow are decorated with small punched triangles. There are traces of a support for the pin-spring on the back of the head-plate. The foot-plate is mis…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Boxford', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-D3F381
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
The object consists of the gilded silver terminal and stubs of the ends of the raised frame round the foot-plate of a Frankish rectangular, or semicircular-headed, bow brooch. The terminal is in the form of an animal head with slanting, lentoid eyes, divided by a Y-shaped rib pointing to a broad, transverse band above two narrow, transverse ribs above the damaged, flat, semicircular end. There are also two narrow, V-shaped ribs above the Y, giving a 'furrowed brow' appearance. The terminal finds its closest parallels in Frankish female brooches of either the late 6th to early 7th-cent…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
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Record ID: PAS-D41548
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold setting from the centre of a plated disc brooch or composite brooch. The setting, which is heavily worn and damaged, consists of a crumpled set of cell walls, within a circular frame. The frame is encircled by a collar made up of two strands of beaded filigree wire flanking a flattened Z-twisted beaded filigree rope. The central field, now empty of its settings, contains the remains of a single cruciform cell with short dividing walls radiating from it to the circular retaining wall. Discussion: Although the setting is badly damaged, the elements of its design can be reconst…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bidford on Avon', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-D42E47
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Ansate (caterpillar) brooch with transverse ribbing on the bow and remains of an iron pin. This is a local version of a Carolingian type. Metal content: X-ray fluorescence analysis at the British Museum indicated that the metal was a tin with lead and copper alloy containing less than 1 per cent silver. Weetch identified this brooch as her type X.Aii, which she dates to the 8th or 9th century.
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 30th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rocklands', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-D45A87
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Under half of a rectangular plate brooch which has simple geometric ornament in relief and the corners cut obliquely. There is an integral catch plate on the back. The form is related to contemporary Carolingian plate brooches. Length: 15mm; width: 14mm. X-ray fluorescence analysis at the British Museum indicated a copper, lead, tin alloy.
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-D49861
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of silver-gilt Anglo-Saxon disc brooch of Sutton type, with detached dome-headed rivet. On the main fragment there is one complete silver-gilt lentoid field, about half of a second and the border of a third flanking a panel with a silver decoration emerging from an incised background filled with niello. The lentoid fields have a notched inner border and are decorated with vegetation motifs: three triangular leaves of increasing size, notched, develop from a tendril to fill the shape. The main field of the brooch is also decorated with a vegetation motif, this tim…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 24th June 2020
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Record ID: PAS-D5D967
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold disc, originally flat, and with an empty rectangular collared setting at its centre, surrounded by four small subsidiary collared settings, each of which contains a round semi-opaque greyish glass cabochon, perhaps intended to imitate pearls. Each collared setting is encircled with beaded wire, as is the outer edge of the disc. From the corners of the central setting, four radiating strips of flattened beaded wire, set edge-on, divide the disc into four segments; within each segment, the glass cabochons are flanked by stylized foliate plant sprays executed in the same edge-on bea…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holberrow Green', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-D60E45
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon silver coin which has been modified into a brooch by the addition of a pin and catch-plate. The coin itself is a silver penny of Edward the Confessor (1042-66), of the so called Sovereign Eagles type (British Museum Catalogue type ix), dating from the late 1050s. It was issued at the mint of London in the name of the moneyer Ælfsige. The coin has had the reverse gilded, and has had a hinged pin and catch-plate rivetted to the obverse with two rivets each, although the pin itself is missing. The effect is thus to show the reverse of the coin (which features a cross design)…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 30th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Bedwyn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-366BC7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete late early-medieval (late Anglo-Saxon) to medieval copper-alloy cloisonné enamelled disc brooch (late 10th - 11th century), of the Saunderton type (Weetch Type 20.A). The brooch is constructed from a base-plate of copper alloy originally with seven equidistant rounded projections; three have been snapped off completely, with only four surviving, non consecutively. A circular copper-alloy collar has been soldered onto this base plate and set within the collar is the cloisonné enamel pattern. The pattern is marked out by copper alloy cells and comprises six conjoined …
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints CP', grid reference and parish protected.