Record ID: HAMP-13F55E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete early medieval gilded silver openwork S-shaped brooch, now missing the pin mechanism on the reverse. The brooch is flat in cross-section and asymmetrical both in shape (roughly egg-shaped) and decoration. The 'S' is created by the sinuous body of a creature with a head at both ends. The body of the 'S' has a wide central midrib flanked by a beaded rib to either side, within rib walls. Deep furrows separate all ribs. The midrib is wider to one end and has an additional shallow furrow within the curve at this point. The width of the brooch at this end is wi…
Created on: Friday 31st May 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 29th August 2023
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Record ID: HAMP-0ABB4E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete early early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon, c.500-600) gilded copper-alloy zoomorphic plate bird brooch with garnet eye detail, missing its pin. It appears to have Salin's Style I decoration. The brooch is in the form of a stylised bird in profile, with a raptor-like hooked beak facing right and circular eye behind. Below the curved line of the wing flanks the back of the body and terminates in a short outward projection, while the front of the body extends into a trapezoidal projection; this presumably representing the feet. Below is a triangular tail. To the reverse, longitud…
Created on: Tuesday 1st August 2017
Last updated: Saturday 28th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Meon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-836509
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon, c. 450-550), copper alloy button brooch of Suzuki's class E2, incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin and has damage to the catchplate. Thick gilding is retained to the front of the brooch, lost on the most prominent edges only. The brooch is rather more oval in shape than the often more circular button brooches. The brooch comprises a circular base with angled walls (turned outwards) surrounding it. The base depicts a face within a concentric raised rib, at the top an oval divided vertically at the centre to represent the nose and slight b…
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2016
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Goodworth Clatford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-D3EF81
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A well preserved Early Medieval gilded copper-alloy button brooch. On the face of the brooch is a stylised facing head wearing what appears to be a helmet. The iron spring attached to the hinge on the reverse is corroded. Suzuki 2008.
Created on: Tuesday 31st May 2016
Last updated: Saturday 12th May 2018
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Record ID: SUR-BD11C7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy disc brooch decorated with a central dot and three widely spaced and finely grooved concentric circles. The brooch retains the remains of a white-metal coating as well as the stubs of a single pin bar lug and catchplate, both set perpendicular to the edge of the brooch. Flat and originally circular, the edges are now very abraded.
Created on: Monday 11th April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
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Record ID: SUR-EBAB8B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval gilded copper alloy round-headed or equal-ended plate brooch. Both ends appear to be triangular and are decorated with faces. Most of the catchplate end is missing. Barrie Ager kindly comments: This is an example of an unusual equal-armed type with concave-sided, triangular arms, which has very few early Anglo-Saxon parallels as yet, although it is too early to be a continental ansate brooch. A 6th-century date does indeed seem likely on the basis of the Style I decoration. The type comes mainly from Kent, the Isle of Wight (IOW-A71E22) and Wessex and there is a v…
Created on: Sunday 20th September 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-914D62
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon, c. 450-550), copper alloy button brooch probably of Suzuki's class B3, incomplete in so far as it is missing its pin and has damage to both the pin lug and the catchplate. There is no trace of gilding, although this does not mean it was not originally present. The brooch comprises a circular base with angled walls (turning outwards) surrounding it. The base depicts a face within a concentric raised rib, the helmet comprising a semi-circle just less than half the area of the base. Below is a T-shape to denote eyebrows and nose, the trunk of the T …
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2015
Last updated: Thursday 11th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Soberton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-88FCDB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval copper alloy disc brooch, complete but for a missing pin, dating to the 5th or 6th Century AD. The disc is fairly large and flat with traces of a layer of silvering or tinning on the obverse. No other decoration is discernible apart from a central drilled dot. To the reverse the drilled pin lug and curled catchplate are intact. The reverse is plain with a large amount of iron staining covering most of the surface. The copper alloy has a bright green patina. The disc measures 35.7mm in diameter and is 2.15mm thick. With the catchplate the brooch is 10.2mm thick and we…
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 10th October 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-8876B3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval copper alloy disc brooch, complete but for a missing pin, dating to the 5th or 6th Century AD. The disc is very thin and misshapen with a large a crack to one side. It is decorated with an outer border of stamped annulets, although these are worn and very faint, and a series of faint concentric circles surrounding a central drilled hole. To the reverse the pin lug and catchplate are intact. The brooch is very worn and corroded with an uneven green patina. The disc measures 36.6mm in diameter and is 0.7mm thick. With the catchplate the brooch is 12.4mm thick and weigh…
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 10th October 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-884A73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval copper alloy disc brooch, complete but for a missing pin, dating to the 5th or 6th Century AD. The disc is fairly large and flat with an incomplete and very scratched layer of silvering or tinning on the obverse. It is decorated with an outer border of stamped annulets and an inner border of annulets around a centre of three concentric circles surrounding an inner drilled dot. One side is very worn so that some detail of the outer border is lost. To the reverse is the pin lug with corroded iron hinge and the complete curled catchplate. It is plain with iron staining …
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 10th October 2018
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Record ID: HAMP-6667BE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy and gilt early Early medieval (450-600) Saucer brooch, missing most of the saucer rim, the pin and the catchplate. The decoration is in the form of a central ring-and-dot motif from which five running spirals radiate, surrounded by a border of two raised concentric circles decorated with a beading or 'rope' design. From the outer circle (which is incomplete due to damage) the shallow rim extends acutely upwards, although only c8.4mm of its length remains. To the reverse are two incomplete and open lugs from a double hinge with some iron staining surrounding.…
Created on: Wednesday 14th January 2015
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
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Record ID: WILT-C94353
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A brooch or badge made from a gilded silver Early Medieval penny of Edward the Confessor (1042-66). The brooch is missing its pin, but other attachments of the mechanism remain in the form of two rivets holding in place two strips of metal used to secure the pin. All attachments were made to the obverse of the coin, and the reverse is gilded for show, forming the front of the brooch. The two rivets can be seen on the reverse, the gilding apparently undertaken after these were in place. Below the right-hand attachment plate two other small perforations can be seen but it is difficult t…
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nether Wallop', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-005BE3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy and gilt Early Early-Medieval (450-550) saucer brooch, with damage to the catchplate and lugs on the reverse. It measures 46.50mm diameter at the top of the saucer edge, 37.13mm inside base of saucer edge (c.38mm to reverse), is 12.45mm max.thickness and weighs 33.24g. The saucer brooch is decorated with seven running spirals around a central ring and dot, a concentric ring joining outside of the spiral and another two concentric rings around this. The saucer edge is 7.7mm high and c.2mm thick. Gilding survives on the inside of the saucer edge and along co…
Created on: Friday 12th July 2013
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Mary Bourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-0F4407
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete gilded silver coin brooch or nummular brooch of Late Early-Medieval date (11th century), missing part of the pin lug. The silver pin and one silver rivet are present but detached from the object. It measures 20.44mm in diameter, 5.04mm in thickness and weighs 2.26g. The object is formed from a silver penny of Edward the Confessor, which has been modified into a brooch or badge. The reverse has been gilded, and brooch fittings attached by silver rivets to the obverse. The catchplate (attached between 8 and 10 o'clock on the obverse) consists of a long rectangular p…
Created on: Monday 13th May 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nether Wallop', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-DF7EA4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A worn and corroded Early Medieval gilded copper-alloy fragment, probably from an early Anglo-Saxon florid cruciform brooch of 6th century date. The fragment is flat and sub-triangular and depicts a stylised human mask in relief facing forwards. The head is in Style I, with two small circular eyes above large rounded cheeks. A prominent triangular nose extends from the slightly curved eyebrow ridges, which are joined at the centre and each terminate in a small upward-curling spiral. The upper edge of the eyebrow ridge has a jagged break. To either side of the face is a further larg…
Created on: Monday 11th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd September 2015
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Record ID: SUR-8C91E4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A late tenth- or eleventh-century cloisonné enamel brooch made from gilded copper alloy. The brooch has a raised centre with dark blue, light blue and red enamel. There are two T-shaped cells set opposite one another and filled with light blue glass, and two perhaps triangular cells filled with red glass. The field thus formed in the centre looks like a cross with offset arms, and is filled with dark blue glass. The cell walls are all made from copper-alloy strip. The enamel design is framed within two rings of chunky beaded wire which are also visible on the gilded reverse. The pin …
Created on: Monday 13th August 2012
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2015
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Record ID: HAMP-5F30D6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy equal-armed brooch of early-medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) date (c. 6th century AD), incomplete only in that it is missing its pin. The flat arms are of slightly different lengths (17.1 and 13.9mm) making the brooch not strictly equal armed. They are broadly T shaped, with the rounded wide ends adjoining the bow (W.: c. 16.0mm). The long elements both taper to terminate in fine knops. Each knop begins with a triple ridge, formed through two incised lines, before a waisted section, before the rounded knop. The faceted bow that joins the arms curves in a shallowly rais…
Created on: Monday 13th June 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Twyford CP', 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: HAMP-67A485
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy fragment from an early Anglo-Saxon saucer brooch, albeit a very weighty one. The fragment is ragged but has suggestions of a curved side, suggesting a large diameter of c. 60mm. The reverse has a double perforated lug near a broken edge (maximum thickness 9.55mm). The stubs have been both broken near the point of perforation, with the uppermost parts bent over slightly. The front is decorated with worn relief ornament in zones within concentric circles delineated by grooves. The central zone bears a star, a motif found on saucer brooches (e.g. MacGregor and B…
Created on: Tuesday 9th March 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 16th December 2015
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Record ID: HAMP-9F9DA2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment from an early-medieval (mid 5th- to 6th-century Anglo-Saxon) small square-headed brooch. The piece is cast in copper alloy and gilded, and consists of the head-plate and upper bow. The head-plate is now sub-rectangular as a result of abrasions to its edges. Within a wide plain open rectangular border in relief is a series of vertical ridges (billets) delineated by incised lines, itself within a low rectangular border. The lower surface of the head-plate has the corroded remains of a central longitudinal pin lug. The bow is short and rectangular in plan, rising in a low arc.…
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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