Record ID: KENT-8A0D63
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
Small cast copper alloy equal-armed brooch. The headplate and footplate are identical; they have tall triangular terminals, with horizontally projecting round-ended knops at the shoulders, where the headplate and footplate meet the bow. The front is decorated with ring-and-dot decoration, or more accurately double-ring motifs; on the footplate, there are two large motifs on each of the rounded knops, and three on the tall triangular terminal. The headplate is probably the same, but much of the lower part is obscured by iron corrosion. The bow has a D-shaped facet on the lower end a…
Created on: Thursday 27th July 2006
Last updated: Friday 16th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Halling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-2D98C7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
Mercury-gilded bow of an Anglo-Saxon great square-headed brooch. The find comprises the rectangular, arched bow, which would originally have joined the head- and foot-plates of an Anglo-Saxon square-headed brooch; length, 32.0 mm. It is decorated with two rows of chip-carved scrollwork flanking a flat median rib engraved with a zigzag, as are the two lateral ribs, and there are old breaks at each end. In form it can be broadly compared with the bow of the brooch from Fairford, grave 20, Gloucestershire, and it dates to the earlier part of the 6th century AD (J. Hines, 1997, A New Corp…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd May 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cliffe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-3A7463
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
A gilded bow brooch cast in silver with moulded relief decoration. It measures 84.7mm in length and weighs 31.97g. It has a semi-circular head-plate with three projecting knobs, each knob comprising three circular lobes in a triangular arrangement. The central panel of the head-plate carries curvilinear relief decoration. The curved bow is straight-sided with a flat cross-section. A central panel running down the length of the bow is inlaid with niello in a repeating motif of circles and lines known as a "paragraphenmuster" (or "paragraph") design. Either side of this is a panel of re…
Created on: Wednesday 5th April 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 24th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gillingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-A84A96
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
The almost complete, lozenge-shaped foot-plate of an early Anglo-Saxon square-headed brooch with the catch-plate for the pin on the back; length, 29 mm. It is slightly bent across the middle. The decoration is rather abraded and indistinct in places, but consists of a low, flat-topped rib in the shape of a hollow-sided lozenge which frames a quatrefoil formed by two back-to-back S-scrolls. At the top centre is a face-mask with two round eyes, to the right of which is an indistinct Style I zoomorphic design, but the section to the left is broken away. At the opposite, rounded terminal …
Created on: Monday 11th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 23rd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CLIFFE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-FED666
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy Kentish small square-headed brooch of Leigh's Series III (Leigh 1980). The brooch is at the smallest end of the range of Kentish square-headed brooches, measuring only 34.01mm in length. Traces of gilding survive on the front. The headplate is rectangular with worn edges, and has decoration comprising a central rectangular zone (perhaps an imitation garnet-setting) with a horizontal groove across the centre. This rectangular zone is surrounded by a pair of concentric rectangular grooves. The bow has a rather flattened cross-section, and is decorated with opposing inc…
Created on: Friday 15th October 2004
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: KENT-B40054
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch. The cast copper alloy brooch has a narrow rectangular central headplate, with a narrow wing on each side and a single fully-rounded knob projecting from the top edge of the headplate. A single perforated lug on the back of the headplate retains part of the iron pin. The lower part of the brooch foot is broken off, but part of the catchplate remains on the reverse of the upper foot.
Created on: Monday 1st December 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cliffe and Cliffe Woods', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT5014
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
Headplate and upper half of bow of a copper alloy cruciform brooch. The rectangular headplate has a half-rounded knob projecting from its top and right edges. A third knob that would have projected from the left edge is missing. A groove runs lengthwise down the centre of the bow. There are two perforated lugs on the back of the headplate for the attachment of the pin, each with a trace of iron corrosion on them.
Created on: Monday 23rd December 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: KENT2450
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
Cruciform brooch with heart-shaped top, and sub-rectangular arms. Decorated with eight circles. Part of back plate still visible.
Created on: Friday 5th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT ROCHESTER', grid reference and parish protected.