Record ID: WREX-D5FC73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a silver artefact, probably an early medieval penannular brooch, with gilding and gold filigree inlay. The fragment comprises part of the hoop and one terminal. The hoop is sub-oval in cross-section and is decorated on the upper surface with a gilded incised design. This begins at the terminal end with two opposing scrolls, behind which (after a small gap) is a slightly recessed, ribbed band running down the centre of the hoop, terminating in a single scroll. At the broken end of the hoop is an elongated semi-circular cell containing a gold sheet inlay, the edge of which s…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 30th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weston Rhyn', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-F3BEB9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper alloy bow brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date, c. AD 420-550. The surviving fragment is sub-rectangular when viewed from the front, tapering slightly from the head to the foot. The head has all edges broken and no decoration surviving; it has a single vertical pin bar lug on the reverse which is trapezoidal when the brooch is viewed from the side. The bow is the same width as the surviving area of the headplate. It is D-shaped in side view and largely D-shaped in cross-section. At the top and bottom are short rectangular-section areas which are decorated w…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2016
Last updated: Friday 13th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stokesay', grid reference and parish protected.