Record ID: NARC-F5254E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Small Long Brooch of Early Medieval date (AD 500-600). The object is composed of a small square plate, with notches removed from the lower corners. The plate is decorated on the upper face with punched ring a dot motifs, in two rows of three, across the upper and lower portions of the plate. On the reverse of the brooch there is a vertical integral lug with a central circular perforation. Protruding from the lower edge of the headplate is an integral bow, which is convex on the outer face, concave on the reverse and D shaped in section. The bow has moulding on t…
Created on: Wednesday 28th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
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Record ID: WMID-DE4E6F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gilded copper alloy Early Anglo-Saxon saucer brooch of Early Medieval dating (AD 470 to AD 550). The brooch is sub-circular in plan. Traces of gilding are present on the surface. It is quite worn, and there are chips missing from the edging. The reverse has two lugs with no extant trace of a pin, one of the lugs is the incomplete catchplate.   The decoration on the obverse consists of a central moulded triangle, surrounded by two concentric engraved circles, a large circular border, another engraved circle and then ends …
Created on: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aston Cantlow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-CB8D62
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Early Medieval gilded cast copper alloy 'spiral' saucer brooch dating c. AD 430-550. The only one fifth of the plate survives with worn breaks on all edges.  The upturned rim is missing with worn breaks and the upper surface is decorated in moulded relief with two surviving running spirals set around a central raised circular boss; possibly with boundary ring. The decorative field is confined within a single raised linear circumferential border inset from the broken plate edge. The reverse is plain with the vestigial rem…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-CB8206
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper alloy 'astragal' cast saucer brooch dating c. AD 450-570. Most of the circular plate and only approximately only one fifth of the rim survives. The brooch has been cast in one piece with a plain undecorated, upturned rim. The centre of the plate is decorated in moulded high relief with two concentric annular borders of trapezoidal panels enclosing a central boss with simple incised plain cross. The boss is enclosed within two raised annulets. The adjacent decorated border is comprised of nine trapezoidal radial wedges separated by …
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: SUSS-CB2699
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval gilded copper alloy fragment of an unidentified object probably a lappet from an Florid Cruciform (Anglo-Saxon) brooch dating c. AD 480-570. The fragment comprises a worn flat sub-oval plate, one edge is rounded and the other has projecting lobes. The upper surface is decorated with chip carved Salin style I zoomorphic decoration with a scroll and eliptical eye, possibly representing an eagles head. Traces of gilding survive in the recesses. The reverse is plain and undecorated.  Measurements: Length: 18.98mm; width: 13.26mm; thickness …
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
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Record ID: OXON-8AD8A4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon quoit brooch dating from the 5th or 6th centuries AD. Only the pin is missing. The frame is flat in cross section being made of metal plate. It is circular in plan with a wide (10.6mm) frame surrounding a large central oval hole (c.15mm by 14mm wide) which has a projecting triangular cut out extending into the frame. This would have formed a V-shaped notch for the pin to pass throuh. On the opposite side of the frame to this notch is a smaller circular hole (2mm diameter) which would have held the pin.  B…
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 29th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kirtlington CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-8AA709
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a cast copper alloy object of Early Medieval date probably a dress fitting and most likely a brooch now only surviving as one fragment, The fragment is lozenge shaped in plan although only two of these edges are original, the remaining two being relatively diagonal lines caused by ragged breaks. At the angle of the two surviving edges the plate becomes thicker forming a projecting knop extending from the front of the plate, rather than beyond the angle. Just above this is a raised border forming a chevron. Between these raised features are two zones of chip grooved&nbs…
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2024
Last updated: Monday 26th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Boarstall CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-76F965
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy early medieval disc brooch, dating from c. 5th to 6th century AD. The brooch is flat and circular, the edges are worn and broken so it is more an oval shape.The face is decorated with punched ring-and-dot motifs, one in the centre, and four equally spaced around the edge of the disc.  The reverse is not decorated. On one edge there is a worn rectangular projection, and opposite is a smaller rounded projection. These are the remains of the pin lug and catchplate. The pin is now missing.  The brooch has a mid green patina, with patches of light…
Created on: Thursday 22nd February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-5D5DD7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy plate brooch of probable Early-Medieval date, c.AD 850 – 1000. The brooch is flat with a narrow D-shaped section and is in the form of a bird, possibly a cockerel, facing left. Faint moulded lines decorate the upper surface denoting a hooked beak, small crest above the head, a pointed wing extending up and backwards from the shoulder of the bird and a thick curved tail from the back end. A small, rectangular projecting plate to the bottom of the brooch represents the feet of the bird. A semi-circular lug is present to the reverse of the birds&rsquo…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2024
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Record ID: NMGW-3324A4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: small copper-alloy penannular brooch with cast hoop of circular cross-section and tinned spatulate terminals. The pin-head is barrel moulded, of a type found on fifth- and sixth-century penannular brooches such as the example from Porth Dafarch, Anglesey. The hoop is decorated with four groups of fine ribbing (two at the junction with the terminals). The terminals are covered with fine silver plate and decorated with punched ring and dot, the pairs at the terminal ends being smaller that the single ring-and-dot motifs and the narrow junction with the hoop. Thin incised lin…
Created on: Monday 19th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 16th April 2024
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Record ID: NARC-E01872
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy Cruciform Brooch of Early-Medieval date (AD 430-550). Anglo-Saxon. The fragment consists of a recessed lappet with an integral hemispherical knop collared narrowed neck and expanded rectangular attachment plate with three linear grooved across. The back of the object is recessed with a with an incomplete lip at the base of the neck. The lower edge of the plate terminates in an old, abraded break.   Length: 20.99mm, Width: 11.88mm, Thickness: 7.73mm, Weight: 4.5g The metal is dark green in colour with a slightly pitted patina. Similar examples can b…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
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Record ID: GLO-A70D45
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gilded copper alloy disc brooch of possible Scandinavian origin dating to the period c.AD850 - 950. The front exhibits cast Borre-style decoration consisting of three figures that are shown as a prone animal that stretch from one side of the disc to the other, crossing each other at the midpoint where that is a recessed disc that would have mounded a stone or enamel, this disc bisects the animals where the three would meet and leaves the torso and hind legs in one half, then head and arm in the other.  Each animal comprises of L-shaped legs that have expanded thighs; the lower…
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 12th February 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-A0B284
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy small long brooch of Early-medieval date, c. AD 450-550. Only the head and upper bow of the brooch survive in tact. The head is square in plan with seven (7) small perforations, one in each corner and one at the centre of three of the edges. The head is fairly worn around the edges so that only two perforations remain complete. The head is decorated with three incised lines, dividing the centre of the head from the perforated areas. Along the edges of the head is a series of short incised lines that run away from the head. Within the cell on t…
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-9FCA85
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy cruciform brooch of Early-Medieval date, c.AD 475 - 550. Only a single separately made head half-round knop remains. The knop is semi-circular with a narrowed waist and semi-circular base. The curved edge of the base has two parallel groves of decoration. A short worn part of the central panel or a wing remains attached to the base of the knop. It has been bent forwards with worn breaks along its edges. The top of the knop appears to include the remains of a further projection or knop but terminates short with a worn break. The metal has a …
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: SF-63B4EB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn copper-alloy late early medieval disc brooch, flat and circular in shape, which would have orginally been enamelled and has a cross motif, formed of shallow pits, on the front face. The pin lug with a fragment of corroded iron from the pin survives on the back face and a fragment is missing from the edge due to old breaks. This brooch is most similar to Weetch type 18 A, which are dated to the 9th-10th centuries and had champleve enamel, in this case now missing, the decoration is of Weetch cross type iii, being a cross with expanding arms and bulb-shaped intersti…
Created on: Friday 9th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-61D79E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) small-long brooch, dating to AD 450-550. The object is only missing its pin and the lower portion of the bow and foot. The brooch fragment includes a rectangular head plate where each of the four sides is slightly convex. The arched bow projects from the lower edge before expanding out into an expanded foot with wide lateral lobes which taper and are truncated almost immediately by a transverse break. A D -shaped pin  mechanism can be seen projecting from the middle of the&nb…
Created on: Friday 9th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
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Record ID: NLM-3A7A73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch. Anglo-Saxon equal arm brooch, but arms styled differently, deeply chip carved and small dots. One rear lug with trace of Fe corrosion, possibly Weetch Type X. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 700-900 Length: 56mm, Width: 15mm, Thickness: (?): 14.6mm, Weight: 13.87gms
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: NLM-35E412
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch pin. Pin from an annular brooch, incised line decoration. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 700-850 Length: 62.2mm, Width: 9.4mm, Thickness: 6.6mm, Weight: 4.69gms
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: NLM-341EB6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch fragment. Foot fragment of an Ango-Saxon cruciform brooch. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 500-600 Length: 46.0mm, Width: 10.6mm, Thickness: 6.2mm, Weight: 8.15gms
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: NLM-33FC82
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch fragment. Bow and foot fragment of an Anglo-Saxon brooch. Stamped decoration. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 500-600 Length: 47.6mm, Width: 11.8mm, Thickness: 3.1mm, Weight: 5.72gms
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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