Record ID: SF-00A81C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy long brooch of Anglo-Saxon date, probably a cruciform brooch. It is missing the sides of the head and most of the foot due to old breaks. The headplate is square with vertical grooves to each side which probably marked the junction between central panel and wings, but any wings and both side edges are now absent. At the top is an integrally cast full-round knob, with wide but shallow base, narrow waist, and worn globular terminal. On the reverse of the head are the remains of a single pin lug that has extensive iron corrosion where the spring and pin would h…
Created on: Tuesday 15th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 23rd August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bedfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-D826B1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Roman to Early Medieval copper alloy penannular brooch terminal, Length 34mm, width 7mm, thickness 3mm, weight 3.05g. The object consist of a rectangular shaped and cross sectioned terminal which has an oval? depression on one face which is filled with linear scratches, perhaps suggesting enamel or a similar substance once filled it? Beyond this there is a collar like decoration consiting of triangular depressions at each side with three linear incisions running between them. At this point the brooch shaft narrows and eventually its cross section becomes circular. The brooc…
Created on: Tuesday 1st December 2015
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2016
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Record ID: LON-C39171
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded cloisonne brooch with blue and white enamel and radiate circular settings, Late Saxon c.AD10th-11th century. The brooch is circular with a raised central decorative section that has been divided using copper alloy divisions. They form four circles in the center of the pattern that spiral out to the edge of the design, this forms two small opposing concave triangles that are filled with white enamel. There are two smaller opposing teardrop shaped areas that have turquoise/green enamel in. The rest of the space, including the four circles, is filled with dark blue enamel.The enam…
Created on: Monday 30th November 2015
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2016
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Record ID: SUR-AB3160
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval to Medieval copper-alloy cloisonne brooch with a gilded frame. The external frame is roughly octagonal and comprises a series of four scrolling trilobate leaf-like forms which alternate with four projecting collets which contain white glass domes, two of which are missing. On the back are the broken hinge and catchplate and a possible broken attachment loop. Centrally is a circular setting formed from a strip of metal. This setting contains a human bust formed from twenty separate glass elements (dark blue, light blue, turquoise, yellow, white and possibly red). The …
Created on: Sunday 29th November 2015
Last updated: Saturday 1st April 2017
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Record ID: NMS-74D8BB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Early Saxon gilded copper alloy great square-headed brooch with elaborate chip-carved ornament. It is a hybrid, with a headplate derived from the great square-headed class and a footplate from the florid cruciform, and belongs to one of Hines's 'informal groups', sub-group vi, The object is in two pieces, with a non-recent break across the junction of the headplate and bow. The lower part of the footplate has been lost, an ancient fracture repaired in antiquity with iron. There is a rivet just above the break and the front face is covered with decayed iron,…
Created on: Thursday 26th November 2015
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
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Record ID: BERK-46D21A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment from the head-plate of an early medieval gilded silver brooch. The fragment comprises approximately a quarter of the head-plate with an expanded flange on the upper and right-hand edges that may originally have given the head a cross-shaped appearance. The flange has an undulating edge and corners, and is chip-carved with alternating lozenge and triangular motifs. The head-plate is decorated with a border of zig-zag decoration created by confronting punched triangles inlaid with niello, inside of which is more chip-carved ornament that is too incomplete to identify. The surf…
Created on: Tuesday 24th November 2015
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-C92F17
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy brooch. Cast ansate brooch, comprising a narrow D-section bow with an oval terminal at either end. One terminal retains a transverse lug for a hinged pin and the other the stub of a transverse catch plate. There is apparently no decoration on either terminal, although the surface is not well preserved. Weetch dates this type to the 8th to 10th centuries. Length: 38.4mm, Width: 11.3mm, Thickness (mid bow): 1.9mm, Weight: 3.77g.
Created on: Friday 6th November 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 12th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Osgodby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-9F86A6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A gilded silver brooch (or perhaps a mount) cast in the half-round form of a dove with an equal-armed cross projecting above its back. The wings, tail and plumage are indicated by grooves and depressions and the cross has a nielloed contour line. The bird has a prominent eye with a punched dot in the centre and a single leg with the claws at back and front broken off. On the back there is a rectangular loop underneath the tail, which may have been a catch for a pin, while a dark patch of solder at the other end appears to mark where a hinge lug for the pin would have been…
Created on: Wednesday 4th November 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 14th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chrishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-675A44
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy brooch of supporting-arm type, dating AD400-450. The object has a rectangular head which would have housed a spring; the ends of the head project rearwards to form a pair of pierced lugs, now blocked with the remains of the iron pin bar. There are bold grooves along the length of the head, and on the reverse the remains of the iron spring. The bow tapers and curves downwards from the head, and is decorated at the top with transverse grooves. It is battered, but seems to taper into a triangular cross-section before straightening and flatt…
Created on: Thursday 8th October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 29th November 2018
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Record ID: NMS-51CE2D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete corroded and damaged middle to late Anglo-Saxon ansate brooch of Weetch's type II.Aiii and Thörle 2001 Gruppe IIA 1c, comprising flat oval terminals each with an engraved cross in lozenge within a circle, and a low-arched D-sectioned bow. Reverse with perforated twin pin lugs containing corroded remains of iron pin, and scar from missing catchplate within surrounding iron corrosion. Length 48mm. Width 17.5mm. Width of bow 8.5mm. Weetch dates this type to the 8th to 10th centuries (2013, 144).
Created on: Wednesday 7th October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 16th July 2020
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Record ID: IOW-4ECBF1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy penannular brooch of Fowler's Type G, c. 410-c. 650. The pin is missing The frame is oval in cross-section and decorated on the upper surface only with a series of transverse ribs. However, these are almost completely worn and are barely visible. The terminals are circular and are flat on the decorated side and slightly convex on the underside. In the centre of each terminal on the decorated side there is a small circular cell containing decorative material. The colour of the material in one cell is blue and probably en…
Created on: Wednesday 7th October 2015
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-E51A11
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an early medieval cast gilded silver radiate-headed brooch. The fragment comprises one of the knobs originally attached to the head-plate, in the form of a stylised animal mask. It is sub-rectangular in form and semi-circular in cross section, with a hollow underside. The flat end is semi-circular, with a semi-circular hole cut out of the centre of its straight edge. Below this is the animal mask, with exaggerated raised brows that converge in a central V-shape from which protrudes a central line, which runs down the snout to terminate in a raised semi-spherical pellet. The…
Created on: Friday 2nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
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Record ID: DENO-AB5DEA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper alloy early-medieval/Anglo-Saxon (AD c.525-c.570) great square-headed brooch, missing everyting except the bow and part of the headplate. Overall, the fragment measures 48.6mm long, 32.1mm wide and 11.5mm thick. It weighs 18.6g. The surviving part of the headplate consists of the inner panel and small fragments of the second panel. The bow is almost completely intact, but nothing below it survives. The whole fragment is gilded but the the gilt has worn off the more exposed raised areas. The inner panel of the headplate is decorated with an inverted face mask.…
Created on: Tuesday 29th September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
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Record ID: NLM-01ECC1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy plate brooch. Cast circular plate brooch with seven equidistantly spaced knops projecting from its frame and the seat for a hinged pin (now lost) and a folded catch plate brazed to the flat back. The display face bears a cloisonné cruciform motif rendered in polychrome enamels of particularly rich and vibrant tints. The cross is rendered in dark cobalt blue enamel and has zig-zag edges to each arm. There is a pale blue enamel field in two opposed fields between its arms, these alternating with darker turquoise fields. Four triangular wedges appear in the outer parts of t…
Created on: Monday 21st September 2015
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Castlethorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

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: BUC-83AD38
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A lead disc brooch of late early-medieval to medieval date (c. 11th century). The front bears a cast design in low relief dominated by a cruciform flower formed of four lentoid petals around a central pellet. Each petal is raised more than the rest of the design, which includes cross-hatching between them. This is contained within a double border filled with transverse ribs giving a laddered design. On the reverse is a central casting seam with a large U-shaped loop towards one end and a small curled C-shaped catch-plate towards the other; the pin is missing. It measures 20.33mm …
Created on: Tuesday 15th September 2015
Last updated: Monday 4th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-0074DA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gilded copper alloy cloisonne enamelled brooch of Late Anglo-Saxon dating (10th to 11th Centuries AD). The brooch is circular in shape with seven circular lobes evenly spaced around the perimeter. Each lobe contains a cicular enamel cell, of which one is turquoise, one light blue, and five navy blue. The face of the brooch is decorated with a gilded border and cloisonné enamel, with a wavy equal-armed cross design in the centre. The cross is navy blue and also decorated with a gilded border which leaves four step pyramid shaped cells, one in each quarter. The opposing c…
Created on: Wednesday 9th September 2015
Last updated: Monday 3rd October 2016
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Record ID: YORYM-866606
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2002 T170 Keystone disc brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date. The brooch, which is broken in two unequal halves, is circular and gilded on the front and tinned on the back to give the appearance of a silver base; diameter: 50 mm. In the centre is a large, empty, circular cell, which would originally have held a boss of white material (possibly shell or cuttlefish) with a central garnet. This is encircled by a band containing four smaller, empty circular cells (for coloured glass or garnet settings) flanked on either side by simple, sharply cast, thumb-knot motifs (Avent&#…
Created on: Thursday 3rd September 2015
Last updated: Thursday 11th August 2022
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Record ID: WMID-702904
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment from the foot of a copper alloy cruciform brooch. The lower section of the object is in the form of an animal's head with half-round nostrils at its distal end above which are two lateral projections representing the brow. A small projection between the nostrils may represent the remains of a loop for a spangle. The upper part of the foot has faceted sides and some, incised, transverse mouldings. On the brooch's underside is a longitudinal rib representing the catch plate. The fragment measures 39.1 mm in length, 7.5 mm wide and 6.0 mm thick. It weighs 4.0 g. The artef…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 13th October 2015
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Record ID: WMID-46955C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete gilded silver brooch or mount dating to the late fifth to early sixth centuries. Less than 25% of the artefact survives. It has a curving edge and is decorated with Salin's Style I ornament on the front, comprising a human mask beside a spiral. Beneath this is a row of beading. The reverse is plain. The artefact was tested using a Mistral tabletop XRF machine to determine its elemental composition. The results are as follows: Location Au Cu Ag Zn Fe Sn P…
Created on: Wednesday 19th August 2015
Last updated: Monday 19th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Penkridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-B4ED99
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
This find represents part of an early Anglo-Saxon applied saucer brooch (also sometimes simply called an applied brooch), comprising the applied decorative copper alloy foil only. The foil is thin and circular, but has suffered some damage and is now missing approximately half of the outer edge and some of the central element. A complex repeating pattern has been hammered on to the reverse of the foil, resulting in an embossed design on the front (repoussé). The design comprises a central circular ring, within which a central hole is located. Around the circular ring are six chevrons…
Created on: Friday 31st July 2015
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
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Record ID: SWYOR-25C8FB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leeds
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy annular Early Medieval brooch dating from AD 450 - 700. The brooch has a flat hoop which is 7.6mm wide and 1.2mm thick. There is a well defined constriction for the pin which is a notch in both side of the frame. There is iron corrosion on the pin constriction and on the frame at the opposite point. The front face is decorated with thirteen punched ring-and-dot motifs which have a double ring. The brooch has a smooth and glossy turquoise green patina. It is 50.5mm diameter, 1.2mm thick and 8.05g. Compare number 10.43 on page 90 of MacGregor and Bolick (1993).
Created on: Friday 24th July 2015
Last updated: Saturday 23rd January 2021
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Record ID: RESEARCH-FBB2B5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A gilded copper-alloy Borre/Jellinge-style disc brooch dated to the late ninth/ early tenth centuries. The brooch depicts two biting S-shaped creatures in the Scandinavian Borre/Jellinge style. Each animal has a round eye, 'ponytail' and a ribbed body with spiral shoulder. The recessed areas of the brooch carry the remains of gilding. Each animal bites its own tail, while gripping its partner's rear leg with its back paw. This motif is seen on Viking-Age pendants and brooches within Scandinavia, and is also found on a handful of disc brooches from England (see, for instance, NMS-0F69C…
Created on: Friday 10th July 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 5th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beachamwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-D52688
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy small-long brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date (c. 450-550 AD). The head, bow and top of the foot survive; the terminal of the foot is missing and the iron spring and pin are lost. The head has a raised central panel with a wide flat undecorated border around. The upper corners are extended into 'horns' which curve outwards and taper to a point. On the reverse of the headplate is a pin lug; the details of this cannot be seen as it is covered with iron corrosion. The bow has a small rectangular-section area to top and bottom, and in between has a long facet on either side …
Created on: Wednesday 8th July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st August 2018
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Record ID: NMS-53A3B4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late early-medieval, Anglo-Scandinavian copper alloy Borre-style flat disc brooch in quite fresh condition. The catchplate and pin lug are both set parallel to the edge of the brooch (of Anglo-Saxon type; Kershaw 2013 fig. 2.2). The pin, whose loop remains within the lug, is of iron. Diameter 29.5mm. Thickness (excluding pin fixings) 1.1mm. Weight 8.45g. 10th century. Kershaw 2013, East Anglian Series Type I.
Created on: Thursday 2nd July 2015
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
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Record ID: SF-965DBD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy early medieval annular brooch. The hoop is broad and flattened, rectangular in cross-section, concave to the reverse with a convex outer face. The outer face is decorated with approximately four concentric lines of small incised dashes. Just behind the inner edge at one side is a small circular hole still holding a delicate simple wire pin. The brooch survives in good condition with a shiny green patina. Small annular brooches of this form are found in late 5th to 6th century contexts (MacGregor and Bolick 1993, 82), with those with round pin holes becoming …
Created on: Tuesday 23rd June 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hilborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-81F455
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and damaged cast copper alloy disc brooch, dating to the early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) period. The brooch is flat, originally circular but now sub-circular, having suffered damage to its edge. On the upper face of the brooch, ten irregularly spaced ring-and-dot motifs (with double ring) form a border around the edge of the brooch, with a similar central ring-and-dot in the centre. The brooch has been tinned and much of this still survives, but only on the front. On the reverse of the brooch the catchplate is missing, as is the pin and most of a single pin lug for the …
Created on: Monday 22nd June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
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Record ID: WILT-99A47B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy early Anglo-Saxon disc brooch missing the pin; the disc is partially damaged. The brooch is flat, circular and decorated with four circular recesses or blind-drilled dots set at approximately 12 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock and 9o'clock. The decoration is worn, so these dots may have originally been surrounded with rings. The recesses do not perforate through to the reverse, where the catchplate and the single hinge lug are present at approximately 12o'clock and 6 o'clock; the curl of the catchplate is missing. The brooch measures 28.30mm in diameter, 8.…
Created on: Thursday 11th June 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Devizes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-83A75F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy and iron cast ansate brooch. It comprises a line of three equal-armed crosses, each with a central pellet and with a pellet in the angle between each pair of cross arms. The central part stands proud of the rest as a bow. The end segments retain twin lugs with a scrap of iron between them as relict of the pin at one end, and the stub of a longitudinal catch plate at the other. Chipped at one end, so that one cross-arm is missing from the foot. Length: 41.9mm, Height (of bow): 7.4mm, Width: 14.9mm, Weight: 8.03g. Weetch dates this type to the 8th or 9th century (2013, 156-7).
Created on: Wednesday 10th June 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 12th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5A6FD9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Saxon gilt copper alloy lozengiform open-work brooch, worn and corroded, central boss with four radiating arms, the arms ending in linked triangular Borre-style animal-head terminals. Broken twin lugs for pin, broken single lug for chain for pendant and rectangular patch where catch-plate missing on reverse. 27 x 27mm. 3mm thick. Weighs 4.36g. Probably made in Scandinavia. Cf. Kershaw Openwork lozenge brooch, Type II (ridged arms). 10th century. …
Created on: Monday 8th June 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
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Record ID: SUR-1CB11A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Anglo-Saxon gilded copper alloy cast saucer brooch dating to c. 480-570 AD. The brooch has been badly plough damaged and has a substantial tear across its middle. The brooch is otherwise complete, save for the missing iron pin. The brooch has a central domed flat-topped circular boss surrounded by two concentric circular ridges. The edge of the brooch has two further concentric ridges and a flared undecorated rim. The field between is infilled with relief zoomorphic decoration of simplified and geometricised Salin's Style I. Short groups of parallel ridges can probably be ide…
Created on: Friday 5th June 2015
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
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Record ID: SUR-1C82C9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Anglo-Saxon gilded copper-alloy saucer brooch, complete save for the missing iron pin, and with slight probable plough damage to the rim. The brooch has a central domed flat-topped circular boss with two concentric circular ridges around it. A broad field outside is infilled with geometricised zoomorphic relief decoration in Salin's Style I. A profile head can clearly be seen, looking right with open pointed jaws and a rounded brow. A triple-strand body block is behind the head, and an element which crosses this may be intended as a foreleg. There is probably a second animal …
Created on: Friday 5th June 2015
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
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Record ID: NMS-DC2A2E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two very similar middle or late Anglo-Saxon copper alloy ansate brooches with lobed terminals and three transverse moulded ribs and two grooves in the centre of the bow. The terminals are decorated with longitudinally engraved lines in addition to a pair of moulded grooves flanking the lobe. On both reverses there is a short high catchplate (one incomplete) and a double pin lug with iron spindle. Lengths 39.3 and 40.4mm. Width of both 6.4mm. Thörle 2001 Typ East Harling, and is closely related to Thörle's Gruppe XII A 1 Typ Domburg and Hübener 1972 Gruppe 9. More recently this…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd June 2015
Last updated: Monday 10th January 2022
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Record ID: IOW-C2FD34
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of an Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) silver-gilt great square-headed brooch (c. 410-c. 650). Treasure case 2015 T374. This foot-plate fragment is part the inner foot-plate panel with a central lozenge shaped cell that contains a lozenge. Part of the curving footplate inner panel has zigzag edges. The rear face is flat and has the remains of a catch-plate. The front is slightly worn and the breaks are old. 14.3mm (height); 12.1mm (width); 1.1mm (thickness); 5.5mm (thickness including catch-plate). Weight: 1.12g. The design is very similar to the foot-plate inner pa…
Created on: Wednesday 20th May 2015
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2016
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Record ID: PUBLIC-60A085
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An early Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) cast gilded copper-alloy button brooch (c. 450-c. 550AD), complete except for the pin. The rim is upturned and flaring at an angle of about 45° to the vertical, in a similar way to saucer brooches. Within a grooved border at the base of the rim is a central chip-carved forward-facing human mask. The helmet (or hair) is formed from three lines, one vertical and two horizontal, converging to form a pyramid shape at the most prominent point. The straight eyebrows are divided from the lower straight line of the hair or helmet by a groove. They dip…
Created on: Friday 15th May 2015
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2017
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Record ID: DUR-353A49
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete gilt copper alloy square-headed brooch of Early-Medieval date (AD 525-575). The Brooch is composed of a trapezoidal head-plate decorated with a band of Style I animals, the limbs and heads of which are clearly shown. Either side of this decoration are plain bands bearing stamp marks. In the centre of the head plate is a square box surrounded with incised lentoid depressions. The foot bears a panel of decoration very similar to that seen on the brooch from Sewerby (Hines 1997, pl. 82b). A setting on the foot plate contain a red stone, either a garnet or glass. The reverse…
Created on: Wednesday 13th May 2015
Last updated: Monday 31st October 2022
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Record ID: NMS-1E5F8A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Saxon copper alloy Cruciform brooch, headplate with integral half-round waisted top knob and side knobs and engraved saltire and vertical groove at one edge. Rectangular panel at both ends of the slightly hollow-backed bow, both with a pair of horizontal grooves. A further two horizontal grooves divide the rectangular panel above a grooved convex moulding at the springing of a narrow stylised animal head with brow and oblique grooves defining eyes and tapering rounded muzzle. On the r…
Created on: Thursday 30th April 2015
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2016
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Record ID: WAW-A63E97
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval (8th-century) copper alloy plate brooch: The incomplete brooch is a lozenge shape with one corner along the length of the brooch being broken and missing. The break is not recent. The opposite corner extends and is bent back over the outer face of the plate and terminates with a broken edge. This would have perhaps originally formed the spring or catchplate of the brooch. Again this break is not recent. The upper surface of the brooch is decorated with a border of low-relief triple-stranded zigzag design within a linear grooves. The centre of the brooch has a low relief …
Created on: Friday 24th April 2015
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2023
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Record ID: CAM-A4DEEE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy lozenge-shaped brooch of Early-Medieval date that has a gilded upper surface with chip-carved decoration. The artefact weighs 6.27g, has a maximum length of 54.8mm, maximum width of 16.0mm and maximum thickness of 1.8mm. The lozenge has a rectangular cross-section. The upper chip-carved decoration consists of an equal armed cross set within a circle (diameter is 13.2mm) placed filling the widest part of the artefact. To either side of this central motif is a design that although is similar to the opposite end are not symmetrical, with one end appearing to be of crude…
Created on: Friday 24th April 2015
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Folksworth and Washingley Parish Area', grid reference and parish protected.

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: SF-67DF01
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a early medieval copper alloy cruciform brooch, with an unusual separate catch-plate. Only the bow and the upper part of the foot survive. The bow is short, D-shaped in cross-section and highly curved in profile with faceted corners. The front is decorated with a broad groove down the centre flanked by a single narrower groove to either side, creating the effect of a pair of ridges. Outside the narrow groove on each half of the bow is a longitudinal line of punched annulets. At either end of the bow is a flat rectangular area decorated with a single transverse groove acr…
Created on: Tuesday 21st April 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 12th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-0F6995
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval, British, copper alloy, penannular brooch, of Fowler's Type F, now broken. The brooch's hoop has an oval, 3.3 x 2.7mm section and is undecorated. It has pseudo zoomorphic terminals which are rectangular with notches defining a lozenge-shaped central panel. Between the head and the hoop is a lipped moulding. While corrosion makes it difficult to see the details the undersides of the terminals decorated with incised lines, three transverse lines separating them from the hoop and two more across the end, probably linked by a saltire cross. Part of the brooch pin survives, …
Created on: Friday 17th April 2015
Last updated: Monday 1st October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Kesteven', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-0F4D67
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval, Anglo-Saxon, Great Square Headed Brooch, gilt cast copper alloy with attached silver plates on its lobes. The head is rectangular with slightly incurved sides and projecting corners which once bore silver plates. Along the sides of the head are parallel bands containing rows of finely incised transverse lines and small annulet stamp impressions. Within these bands is a central area containing concentric rectangular fields defined raised strips again decorated with fine, transverse lines and annulet stamp impressions and larger, tear shaped, depressions. These bands sur…
Created on: Friday 17th April 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Kesteven', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D48874
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Detachable side-knob from cruciform brooch, half round section, slot for edge of headplate, waisted, one deep transverse groove before the waist, longitudinal perforation for missing pin bar. Length 14mm. Width 11mm. Thickness 8mm. Weighs 5.18g. c. AD 480-550.
Created on: Thursday 2nd April 2015
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-A77BBC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy middle or late Anglo-Saxon ansate brooch. It is missing the pin due to old breaks but is otherwise complete. The brooch has a curved bow that is triangular in cross-section with flat back and faceted front face. At each end are expanded, flattened terminals. One (the head) is rectangular in form with flat back face and faceted front face, and with a transverse rib or ridge at the terminal end. On the back face of this terminal is an integrally cast pin lug that is rectangular in form with a small circular aperture and rectangular projections at each …
Created on: Tuesday 31st March 2015
Last updated: Monday 23rd March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wenhaston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-8022C1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy saucer brooch of late 5th- or early 6th-century date. It is circular and 25.9mm in diameter, small for a saucer brooch; it also has unusual Style I decoration. The brooch has a raised outer rim with a deep V-shaped groove immediately inside it and a V-shaped ridge immediately inside that. Within this border is a chip-carved design well executed in Salin's Style I. The design is zoomorphic, consisting of a single animal in profile, best viewed with the line of the pin horizontal (as in the photograph). There is a large profile head at the bottom of the des…
Created on: Tuesday 17th March 2015
Last updated: Monday 7th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dorset', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-553F25
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
The head-plate of an early medieval copper-alloy brooch, of 5th or 6th century date and probably of continental origin. The brooch has a frilled or lobed outline with six small round holes on each face, each now filled with iron. The brooch has a hinge on the back and retains a fragment of a narrow bow. No other decoration is visible. Barrie Ager kndly comments: It seems most likely that the head-plate is from a continental form of radiate-headed brooch with a semi-circular head on which the five radiating knobs have become reduced to rounded lobes. A fair comparison can be draw…
Created on: Sunday 15th March 2015
Last updated: Friday 18th May 2018
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Record ID: NMS-2F75FB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Middle or late Anglo-Saxon ansate brooch, flattened D-sectioned bow with a circular flat-sectioned expansion with central double ring-and-dot and notch outside edge, the circular head and foot also decorated with double ring-and-dot and notched outside edge. Catch-plate and twin pierced lugs containing corroded remains of iron axis bar and pin on reverse. Length 47mm. Width 12.5mm. 3mm thick. Weighs 11.38g. This falls into Weetch's type II.B (with disc on bow), Hubener 1972 Gruppe 1 (Abb.24, n.7), and Thorle 2001 Gruppe II (Tafel 22, no.11). Weetch…
Created on: Friday 13th March 2015
Last updated: Thursday 1st November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-F14788
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Saxon copper alloy disc brooch depicting a backward-turning beast. Set within a circle of twenty-eight pellets, the beast, with all four legs three-toed, turns to regard its upturned tail. The eye is marked with one ring-and-dot, and there are two others, one on the chest and one on the rump. On the reverse there is a catchplate set at a right angle to the outside edge and a broken perforated pin-lug aligned with the outside edge. Diam. 28mm. 2mm thick. Weighs 6.16g. Backward-turning animal brooches date to the late Saxon period, probably from the early 10th onwards. The type is …
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2015
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2021
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Record ID: LIN-F00E1B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Viking cast copper-alloy disc brooch decorated in the Jellinge style. The brooch has a flat back and a domed surface. The surface is decorated with a moulded motif comprising a knot of beaded lines, perhaps imitating filigree. Within and outside the knot are various limbs, tongues, gripping feet, and head lappets. The whole combines to form a very clear motif consisting of a pair of S-shaped Jellinge-style animals with heads against the edge of the brooch and bodies curving down and around, to end in tails which are wrapped back over the body to end back at the mouth. In the cent…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2015
Last updated: Monday 5th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-EC00A7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Saxon side knob from a Cruciform brooch, full-round (of rounded lozengiform section) with broad transverse groove and facets forming a slight collar, traces of engraved radial line on inner part. The longitudinal perforation, unusually, contains the remains of a copper alloy pin bar (these are almost invariably iron. There is a groove on the inside face to fit against the head-plate. Length 11.5mm. Width 10mm. 8.5mm thick. Weighs 3.50g. c.450-80 AD. '4 1/2 hours fluffy ploughed'
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2015
Last updated: Thursday 28th July 2016
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Record ID: SUR-9BF964
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Published
Two very worn and joining fragments of an early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) saucer brooch. The sloping rim is completely missing. The brooch has a central circular boss with a relief pentagon around it. Around this is a raised area with several (originally five) sunken ovals or ellipses. While the condition of the brooch makes certainty impossible, these ellipses are likely to represent highly devolved animal decoration, perhaps related to the 'seven running legs' type (Dickinson 1993, p. 26, figs 62-65). Around the ellipses is a double circle which forms a frame. On the back is the …
Created on: Friday 6th March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 16th December 2015
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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
Spatial data recorded.

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: ESS-5AED94
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Early Medieval gilt copper alloy button brooch, dating to the 6th century AD. the object is formed of a disc shaped plate with only traces of the pin and catchplate on the reverse in the form of two bumps.The object is decorated on the outer face only. There is a raised rim running around the edge of the brooch to act as a border. The design within the border consists of a cross formed of a bar with bifurcations at each end and triangular shapes forming the other bar. Within the bifurcated ends are two chevrons and traces of further decoration within this pattern. The en…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
Last updated: Friday 13th December 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-42C63D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy bow brooch dating to the early part of the early-medieval period, c. 5th-6th centuries AD. The surviving part of the brooch consists of a semi-circular head and a sub-rectangular bow, which curves slightly outwards; a tiny fragment remains of the foot, unfortunately insufficient to determine its shape. The head of the brooch is decorated with a large central ring-and-dot design, with a central dot and two fine, widely-spaced rings. This is flanked at either side and the top with a further smaller ring-and-dot motif, similar but with only one ring.…
Created on: Monday 2nd March 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 26th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-CA0B51
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy cruciform brooch of Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon date. It is missing the spring, pin and foot due to old breaks. The headplate is rectangular in form with an integrally cast knop at the top centre. This is half-round with flat back face, semi-circular head, narrow neck and expanded collar decorated with multiple transverse grooves on the collar and the base of the head.The headplate itself has a slightly raised central rectangular panel with flattened rectangular wings to either side. It has decoration comprising single bands of punched V-shaped(?) motifs…
Created on: Tuesday 24th February 2015
Last updated: Monday 23rd March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Larling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-5DDF7D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval gilded cast copper alloy brooch with remains of iron pin fastening on the reverse. Dating from the 8th century, the mount is in fair condition with some gilding, now rather flakey, still present in the crevices of the chip-carved decoration. While the brooch appears to be lozenge-shaped this is likely to be a result of damage to its edges and it it probable that it was circular. A plain cross divides the decorated face into four equal fields, each containing a panel of deeply cut, non-zoomorphic interlace. In the centre is a circular, plain area, through which is an iro…
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Worksop', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-F80606
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy early Early-Medieval equal-armed or miniature bow brooch, comprising two opposing triangular plates that are joined by an arched bow. The headplate has rounded lobes at each corner, and incurved sides. On the reverse are projecting pierced lugs for the iron axis bar, around which a copper-alloy spring is wrapped. Part of the copper-alloy pin survives. The footplate is incomplete, with the lower terminal missing. It may have been differently shaped to the headplate, as the upper corners are now simple angles, but it is possible that rounded lobes have broken away. The f…
Created on: Monday 2nd February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Creslow', grid reference and parish protected.

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: NMS-E84328
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late early-medieval Scandinavian cast copper alloy Borre-style convex disc brooch of Jansson's Type II A, with three inward-looking Borre style animal heads separated by the lobes of a double-contoured trefoil (cf. Kershaw 2013, p.50, fig. 3.7). On the reverse, an Anglo-Scandinavian arrangement for attachment comprising a transversely-set pin-lug (with remains of iron pin in the perforation), and a catch-plate set at right-angles to the edge. Diameter 26.5mm. Height, excluding fittings on reverse, 8mm. Weight 9.74g. 10th century.
Created on: Thursday 8th January 2015
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
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Record ID: NMS-556A43
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Saxon copper alloy bird brooch of probable Scandinavian origin and decorated in Urnes/Ringerike style with a grooved wing, a triangular tail and a spiral shoulder. There is a close resemblance to brooches from South Ormsby, Lincolnshire and Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk (HER 24332; Kershaw 2013, 123, fig. 3.74; Margeson 1988), but the reverse of this present piece lacks both a catchplate and a pin lug. In the centre an irregular deposit of shiny material may be solder for the attachment of a separate pin arrangement. A broadly similar piece from Nottinghamshire was considered by Kers…
Created on: Thursday 1st January 2015
Last updated: Saturday 28th March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-2E39EB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Roughly triangular and flat fragment of gilded silver, probably of a brooch of the Early Saxon period. One side is unbroken and gently curved. The other two are broken across thickened mouldings, one rounded and perhaps circular. Chip-carved decoration comprises two concentric triangles and curves. The plain reverse is not gilded. 12.3 x 11.6 x 1.1 - 1.5mm. Weight 0.81g. c.500 - c.650.
Created on: Tuesday 30th December 2014
Last updated: Monday 26th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH NORFOLK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-989140
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Published
A silver gilt plate brooch with pink gem or glass settings (perhaps pale garnets), which is probably Continental, Early Medieval and dating from AD 400 - 600. The brooch is quatrefoil in plan, with a smaller lobe in the outer angle of each pair of foils. The four outer lobes are circular settings for pink gem (garnet) or glass insets. Three of these survive. The last setting contains a white concretion, perhaps solder or cement for the missing gem. A similar sized circular cell, also missing its setting, is at the centre of the plate. The four lobes of the quatrefoil are all decora…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd December 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 15th June 2016
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Record ID: BM-B8C33E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy small-long brooch dating to the late fifth or early sixth century AD. The fragment comprises the head and bow. The foot is missing and the brooch is in general very worn. The head is 29mm in overall width and comprises a small square central panel with three flat semi-circular knobs attached by short stems. There are hints of lines of punchmarks around at least one side of the central panel, and possibly across the base of the uppermost knob too (above the stem) but the amount of wear makes this uncertain. On the reverse is a single pin bar lug, pierced f…
Created on: Saturday 13th December 2014
Last updated: Monday 23rd April 2018
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Record ID: BERK-C89FDA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper alloy jewelled disc brooch dating to the early Early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon) period. The brooch consists of a single piece of cast copper alloy, and has a central circular cell, now missing its setting but probably of a white shell or bone or possibly chalk. Set equidistant around this central cell are four trapezoidal or keystone cells each containing a red stone, probably garnet, and possibly above hatched foil or gilding. Located at the outer, narrower end of these cells is a small circular setting, only one retaiing what appears to be a chalk insert around a small…
Created on: Monday 1st December 2014
Last updated: Saturday 28th March 2020
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Record ID: SF-464732
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper-alloy knop from a florid cruciform brooch of Anglo-Saxon date. It is formed from a flat plate with chip carved decoration on the front face comprising a Salin Style I human face mask. This has a short transverse collar at the attachment end decorated with multiple transverse grooves. Beneath this the face has prominent eyebrows and large circular eyes, with a projecting triangular nose and curving lines below the eyes that curve outwards terminating in small spirals or hooks. A small open oval shaped mouth is visible beneath the nose, and a small rectangular chi…
Created on: Tuesday 25th November 2014
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kenninghall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-4E0EBD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy equal armed brooch comprising of two opposing triangular plates that are joined by an arched bow. The brooch is decorated with recessed linear and ring designs depicting a bordered face-mask on each plate which are consistent with Style I. The decoration comprises of, on one plate, a cluster of three small rings in the centre with a double line below and a ring in each corner, while on the other plate are two rings with three lines below, and a ring in the tip. A double linear double linear border surrounds each plate and either side of the bow. The reverse has the cat…
Created on: Thursday 13th November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 21st March 2018
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Record ID: WILT-35008F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy early-medieval (AD c.400-c.700) penannular brooch. Overall, it measures 34mm long, 24mm wide and 3mm thick. It weighs 6.50g. The hoop of the brooch is penannular and measures 24mm in diameter. The hoop is decorated with transverse ribs. Its terminals are polyhedral and each is decorated on at least one side with a ring-and-dot motif. The pin is circular in section and measures 34mm long and 2mm in diameter. The pin has a flat attachment loop and tapers to a point.
Created on: Wednesday 12th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 6th October 2015
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Record ID: NMS-D013E4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete gilt copper alloy supporting-arm brooch, with the footplate missing. The iron spring is held by three pierced lugs above each of which there is an animal-head lobe on the front face. A similar animal head projects from both ends of the headplate and a finely beaded rib runs between them. Both angles between the headplate and the bow are edged by elaborately moulded animals. A pair of median grooves on the tapering D-sectioned bow extends down to a pair of transverse grooves just above the (not recent) break. Below the animals a row of billet moulding flanks the median groov…
Created on: Friday 7th November 2014
Last updated: Sunday 22nd March 2020
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Record ID: IOW-C8E077
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of an Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) silver-gilt great square-headed brooch (c. 410-650). Treasure case 2014 T811 (addenda to 2003 T208). This foot-plate fragment is part the inner foot-plate panel with a central concave-sided lozenge shaped cell. The cell has a voided border of inner pellets and outer zigzags which follow the outline of the cell. Small triangular recesses created by the zigzag motifs may have been filled with niello. The rear face is flat and has the remains of a catch-plate. The design is very similar to the foot-plate inner panels on a trio of brooch…
Created on: Friday 7th November 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
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Record ID: SUR-8F4A0C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
A penny of Eadgar, AD959-975 (EMC 2014.0296); parts of the circumference are missing in two areas. The obverse has been gilded. The edge of a small circular hole survives in the edges of one of the breaks which, together with the gilding, suggests that the coin was converted into a brooch, the hole being one of two used to attach a pin. The coin is of a previously unrecorded type. In view of the missing portions the best guess is that the obverse would originally have read EA / DG / AR / REX (in a design reminiscent of the Luda penny of Alfred); it would fit in with other revival…
Created on: Tuesday 4th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 16th January 2020
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Record ID: LVPL-368972
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
~~Four fragments of a silver bossed penannular brooch. The three largest fragments appear to join together and come from the brooch's terminal, while the smallest fragment is from another part of the brooch. The surviving parts of the brooch include the remains of four (possibly five) bosses, only one retaining the boss itself. On the front of the brooch fragments, the smaller bosses are enclosed by plain incised borders, while the two larger bosses are surrounded by a ring of punches resembling a billeted border. The same type of border runs along the surviving true edge of the l…
Created on: Friday 31st October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bagby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-35B2BE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An enamelled copper-alloy penannular brooch of Fowler's Type G. The frame is oval in section and decorated on the upper surface only with a series of transverse ribs. The terminals are circular and both have a lozenge facet on the top. In the centre of the lozenge is a circular cell containing enamel, or possibly amber. The colour of the enamel is presently dark blue, though when viewed under a microscope a small area of damage reveals a bright orange/red interior. The brooch measures 23mm in length, 24mm in width, and 4mm in thickness. The terminals measure 6mm in width and approxima…
Created on: Friday 31st October 2014
Last updated: Friday 16th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Lindsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-BE3EDA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of gilt copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon Great Square-Headed brooch, repurposed as a secondary small D shaped brooch, c.AD 500-550. Description:The brooch survives as a D-shaped fragment with the top flatter edges raising to small points at the top of each corner side possibly representing the tips of the ears of the zoomorphic design. The middle section of the brooch is dominated by a facing beast mask with large eyes and long snout; wide where the eyes are placed but evenly narrow down the remaining length of the brooch. flanking this mask on either side are two outward facing…
Created on: Saturday 25th October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 18th July 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BUC-4D849D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper-alloy strip brooch made in one piece. The plate is complete and lozenge-shaped, slightly longer than it is wide, with one narrower end extended into a wire spring (now broken and incomplete). The other end has no elaboration to the corner, and has a pair of rivet holes which are not obviously secondary, and which must have held a separate catch, possibly a repair but probably an original feature. The brooch is decorated with a broad border, inside a narrow reserved outer border. This broad border is decorated with groups of herringbone grooving. Within this is ano…
Created on: Monday 20th October 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Quainton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-2E9A21
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon wide equal-arm brooch. The fragment is almost half of the brooch (most of one 'arm' and about half of the bow) but as there is no trace of either pin lug or catchplate on the undecorated reverse, it is impossible to tell whether this is the head or the foot. The surviving head or foot has a wide edge decorated with two lines of punched indentations giving a beaded effect. The corners are both missing; one appears to have broken at a possible drilled hole, perhaps an ancient repair. The double line of punched indentations is also fou…
Created on: Sunday 19th October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 14th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-672148
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy brooch or mount, of 8th Century AD dating. Gild copper alloy disc, with a central hole. The disc is divided into four fields by a plain cross in the four angles of which are the figures of animals surrounded by interlace. Each of these looks back over its own body and appears to have wings, although the details are difficult to discern. The eyes are marked by incised dots, the forehead and nose are separated by a steep step and, behind the eye of each animal, are two converging lines. The possible wings also bear converging lines and the animals' bodies m…
Created on: Thursday 9th October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 26th March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-6554A7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval copper alloy saucer brooch, 45mm long, 35mm wide and 2.5mm thick. The brooch is in fair condition and weighs 12.70g. The brooch is incomplete, missing all of its raised edge and some of its flat surface. There are no original edges surviving and the breaks are all old, worn and corroded. The decoration is cast in fairly soft relief around a central circular flat boss surrounded by a concentric ridge. There are two bands of Style I decoration, separated by another concentric ridge. The inner band has three elements shaped like reversed figure-2s, alternating with two …
Created on: Thursday 9th October 2014
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-537B75
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy side knob from an Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch dating from the 6th century AD. The knob has a half-rounded dome with a base. There is a flat terminal boss at the apex, a deep concave groove or waist dividing the dome from the base, and two circumferential incised lines on the base, worn away at the centre. A broken flange projects from the base, the remains of the integral head plate. The reverse is hollow and has iron corrosion from the pin. The knob is 13mm long, 13.2mm wide and 5.3mm thick. 3.31g. LIN-144080 is a similar knob, and LIN-904B66 and SWYOR-029546 are more…
Created on: Wednesday 8th October 2014
Last updated: Sunday 15th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-3BA72C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Early Saxon copper alloy Cruciform brooch of Åberg 1926 Group I, the side knobs, most of one wing of the headplate (recent break), part of the catchplate and part of the single pin lug missing. The top knob is waisted and fully round. The front face of the headplate is convex and the reverse correspondingly hollow. A rectangular panel with opposed side notches forms facets at the top and the base of the sub-triangular sectioned bow. At the top of the footplate there is a transverse fluted rib moulding and below this a downward pointing engraved chevron. The aninmal head te…
Created on: Tuesday 7th October 2014
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-197839
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Saxon Cloisonné enamel disc brooch. The brooch is composite, with a slightly convex central enamelled field within a vertical collet surrounded by a flange in the form of a double moulded, cabled border imitating a double band of twisted wire. On the reverse of the separate back-plate is a scar from a soldered catch-plate and the broken and corroded remains of the soldered pin lug. The pin is missing. The translucent cloisonné enamel decoration consists of a central circular cell filled with white enamel surrounded by four circular cells filled with blue enamel, with four ci…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
Last updated: Friday 31st March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Witchingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-120845
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead brooch of Weetch's type 13, defined as having a raised central field. It is of late Early Medieval date, probably 11th century, and is unusual in that it appears to be the first known to be decorated with a single face mask. It is missing much of the outer edge and pin lug due to old breaks, now worn. The flat outer edge is decorated with beaded decoration and there is a circumferential groove before a central, circular flat-topped raised boss. The outer edge of the boss is decorated with a circumferential border containing diagonal grooves. Within this is a cent…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd September 2014
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AE4D73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead disc brooch of Weetch type 4.C and late Anglo-Saxon date. It is missing its pin due to old breaks but is otherwise intact. The brooch is flat, disc shaped in form and with moulded decoration on the front face. This comprises a central voided arcuate cross, so made up of four back-to-back curved ridges, all now worn but with pellet terminals at each end of the arms. A larger pellet or boss is at the centre of the cross. The cross is contained within a border formed from a double band of pellets. The flat back face of the brooch is undecorated but has an integrally…
Created on: Thursday 18th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-F2B846
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an Early Medieval, copper alloy, cruciform brooch, not classifiable but its small size suggests an early date. The fragment consists of the animal headed foot, two low bosses represent the eyes, the tip of the nose is missing. Behind the head is plain zone bearing a single, incised transverse line. Further lines mark the upper part of the fragment, these zones being separted by a plain band the edges of which may have been faceted. On the underside of the fragment is a rib representing the remains of the pin catch plate. Condition fair, Length 25.4mm, Width 6.6mm, Thicknes…
Created on: Tuesday 9th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 9th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elloughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-F28B2A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an Early Medieval cast copper alloy brooch of Aberg's Group III. All that survives is the brooch's foot, in the form of an animal's head with prominent eyes set either side of a keeled section. The nostrils are 'scrolled' (comma-shaped) which allows this fragment to be placed in Group III. Behind the head is a collar-like moulding at which point the brooch was broken. The underside of the brooch is hollowed to a depth of 0.6mm and at one end is part of the catch-plate for the pin. Conditon fair, Length 26.6mm, Width 9.9mm, Thickness 4.9mm, Mass 5.38g.
Created on: Tuesday 9th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 9th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elloughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-C2D00D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and corroded Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy and gilded button brooch (c. 450 - c. 550). Possibly Suzuki Type B1 (Suzuki 2008: 54-55, plates 67-80). This brooch is circular in plan and most of the upturned rim is missing. The pin is also missing. The upper surface of the brooch has a plain double grooved border. Within the border is a central chip-carved anthropomorphic forward facing mask. The helmet or hair has exfoliated and is possibly a semi-circular shape. The eyebrows and nose appear to be formed of a single element and the nose seems to be wide. H…
Created on: Sunday 7th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-863289
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2014 T594 Description: A complete gilded silver zoomorphic knob, probably from a radiate-headed brooch, of Early-Medieval date. The knob is D-shaped in cross-section with a hollow concave reverse. It tapers slightly from the wider attachment end, which is solid and D-shaped with a circular perforation by which the object would have been attached to the headplate of the brooch. The knob is cast in Style I relief decoration to resemble an animal head. The decoration includes a raised border around the attachment end and a Y-shaped central rib forming nose and brows.…
Created on: Thursday 4th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 7th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DUR-6E265A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy ansate brooch dating to the Early Medieval period, c. AD 700 to 900. The brooch is sub-rectangular in plan and is sub-rectangular in section. The brooch has a curved bow and two flat terminals. The front of the brooch is quite ornately decorated with five cross motifs each of which has a small, circular silver inlay at each terminal and in the centre of each cross. Some of these inlays are missing but there are small cells to indicate where they would have been. There is also silver inlays in the angles of each cross. The back on the brooch is smooth and …
Created on: Wednesday 3rd September 2014
Last updated: Saturday 12th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-05217E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A silver coin of Edward the Confessor, adapted to make a coin brooch or badge by way of two silver rivets. The reverse of the coin has been gilded, making this side the visible face. The rivets are circular in section, each with a domed head (also gilded) on the front and flattened on the reverse to keep them in position. Each rivet is positioned centrally and vertically when the reverse is held the right way up (legend starting at 12 o'clock). Although the rivets remain in place, the remainder of the brooch fittings are missing. c. 10% of the coin flan is missing to an old break at t…
Created on: Friday 29th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-04A5EB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of an applied gold disc from the centre of an early medieval composite disc brooch. The fragment is part of the curved edge of the disc. Around the outer edge is a border of fine gold beaded wire. The flat part of the disc is decorated with tiny annulets of gold beaded wire and the remains of three settings. One is circular with a collar made from gold strip, now flattened, within a border of gold beaded wire. The setting is now empty and the centre is pierced. The second is much damaged and consequently of indeterminate original shape, now appearing sub-trapezoi…
Created on: Friday 29th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 18th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanstead Abbots', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-273A25
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Early-Medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) cast gilded copper-alloy radiate-headed or miniature bow brooch (c. 450-c. 550). The lower part and the pin are missing. The head is semi-circular and on the front is a chip carved design with a raised zig-zag forming slightly arched chevrons. A knop at the apex has two small circular recesses, and there is a small flat undecorated knop at the lower right-hand corner. It is assumed that there would have been a similar knop at the opposite corner. On the reverse of the headplate, a single pin lug is largely obscured by a corroded iron…
Created on: Monday 18th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-25E5F8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval (late 10th - 11th century) copper alloy enamel cloisonné disk brooch: The body of the brooch is circular with twelve equidistant knops on the exterior edge. The edge of the brooch (excluding the knops) has a collar which rises up from the front of the brooch. The knops and collar have incomplete gilding. Within this collar, the circular field is decorated with cloisonné fields of blue, yellow and white enamel. The design is a eight-petalled flower with the leaves decorated with alternating light blue, white and yellow enamel. The field around the flower is decorate…
Created on: Monday 18th August 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-BF6D98
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy middle Anglo-Saxon lozengiform brooch made from a single strip of copper-alloy, which is expanded to form a lozenge-shaped plate in the centre but narrows to wire on either side of the plate. At the base of the plate the wire is simply curled round to form a hook which acts as a catchplate for the pin. At the top of the plate the wire is looped round on itself in a single loop to the right of the plate, forming a primitive spring. The wire is then bent back down along the length of the brooch to form the pin which is incomplete. The lozenge plate is decorate…
Created on: Thursday 26th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 23rd March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Grittleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-83BECB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Two fragments of a cast gilded silver disc brooch from the early early-medieval period. The fragments join together and comprise approximately a quarter of the original brooch. One fragment is smaller than the other. The front is decorated with settings for garnet inlays, and panels of stylised zoomorphic designs in Salin's Style II. The outer rim of both fragments is decorated with a single row of punched annulets around the circumference. The remains of a large circular central setting with raised collar survive on the broken bottom edge of each fragment. The smaller f…
Created on: Monday 23rd June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 18th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Hendred CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-2F047C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2014 T440: Disclaimed, returned to finder Description: Incomplete early medieval silver disc with an incised design. Approximately 15% of the brooch is lost to a patinated break down one side. The rim is bent forward slightly, more pronounced in some places than others. Despite the broken edge, it is possible to see that the disc was not perfectly circular when complete. The front of the disc is incised with an equal-armed, saltire cross within a circle. The circle joins the terminals of the cross-arms with no division and provides the outer border of the design. I…
Created on: Thursday 19th June 2014
Last updated: Monday 3rd October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'The Deverills', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EFE4B4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver knob from a radiate-headed brooch of early-medieval date. It is roughly D- or U-shaped, with a straight edge where it would have been attached to the headplate. It has cast relief Style I decoration consisting of a raised border inlaid with a longitudinal niello stripe at the attachment edge, conjoined brows also inlaid with a niello stripe, deep pointed-oval eye sockets with raised central pointed-oval pupils each of which has a tiny blind hole, and a worn pellet-like nose from which extends a median rib which divides a second pair of circular eyes or nostrils. Th…
Created on: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 18th May 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-CD3C08
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Probably a cast copper alloy ansate brooch dating from the early medieval period, that is c. 8th-9th century. The brooch is sturdy and almost complete with only the hinge mechanism and the pin missing. The brooch is very angular, looking as if it was shaped from a thick strip of bronze. The surface is very worn and the cast decoration difficult to read. It looks as if the brooch was gilt. The cast decoration is the same on each arm and consists of a cross with bent arms, while there was possible a four-petalled flower on top of the bow. The underside is plain with two lugs remaining o…
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2014
Last updated: Friday 9th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Finghall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-C766ED
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Near-complete but rather battered copper-alloy equal-arm brooch. The brooch is bow-tie shaped with a flat, flared sub-triangular plate to either end forming the terminals, and a narrowed arched bow between. The only decoration consists of two pairs of transverse parallel incised lines on the face of each flared terminal, adjacent to where they abut the arched bow. The bow has a low C-shaped cross-section in the centre, with a triangular facet on the front at top and bottom, apexes towards the centre. On the reverse of the brooch are the remains of the pin fitting mechanism, consisting…
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elton Area', grid reference and parish protected.