Record ID: PAS-366BC7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete late early-medieval (late Anglo-Saxon) to medieval copper-alloy cloisonné enamelled disc brooch (late 10th - 11th century), of the Saunderton type (Weetch Type 20.A). The brooch is constructed from a base-plate of copper alloy originally with seven equidistant rounded projections; three have been snapped off completely, with only four surviving, non consecutively. A circular copper-alloy collar has been soldered onto this base plate and set within the collar is the cloisonné enamel pattern. The pattern is marked out by copper alloy cells and comprises six conjoined …
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-A3BA59
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy cross-on-bird brooch dating to the middle Early-Medieval period (AD 750-850). The brooch is in the shape of a bird with a cross projecting from the centre of its back. It is mostly intact with only part of the tail and the pin on the reverse missing. The upper surface is slightly convex, while the reverse is slightly concave with the remains of an integrated hook and catch plate for holding the pin. The bird is depicted in profile facing left with a rounded head, raised circular eye and a pointed beak that bends downwards. The body and neck are stock…
Created on: Thursday 13th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 9th January 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-856913
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Saxon gilt copper alloy florid cruciform brooch, Leeds and Pocock's (1971) Group V. Martin 2015, Group 4, Åberg Group V. Square head plate with square central panel within a bordering frame. The integral top and side knobs each have a sub-rectangular Style I mask with large eyebrows with curled terminals, pelleted eyes, nose and transverse downward-curled moustache with a splayed projection emerging from the mouth with the remains of silver applique sheet. There is a median rib with a central voided rectangular panel forming a boss at the mid-point of the D-sectioned bow and a …
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2018
Last updated: Monday 29th April 2019
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Record ID: HAMP-C7100B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete late early-medieval (Anglo Saxon) cloisonné enamelled copper-alloy disc brooch of 10th to 11th century date and Weetch type 20.B. It is missing its pin to the reverse. The circular brooch appears to be formed of several component parts, those visible with the brooch in its relatively complete state being a rim, a gilded backplate and apparently separate to this the cloisonné insert. The rim is stepped to the front with traces of gilding on is vertical wall and a narrower, angled and slightly convex ring to the reverse, also with traces of gilding, from which two lug…
Created on: Monday 16th July 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 9th January 2019
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Record ID: SF-4D4636
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Middle Anglo-Saxon Ansate brooch of Weetch's type XII.Aiii; 'Ansate brooches with tri-lobed leaf shaped terminals', the so-called 'Pommeroeul type' (Thorle's group XII A2), dating c. 800-950 AD. In plan the body of the brooch is rectangular in form, with four leaf-shaped motifs on each side of the bow and terminals to give a symmetrical scheme of decoration. Each of these 'leaves' is broadly crescentic in plan, with those on the terminals demonstrating a further decorative moulding which fills the gap inbetween them- thus creating a tri-lobed moulded mo…
Created on: Tuesday 10th July 2018
Last updated: Monday 23rd March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kedington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-239908
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Anglo-Saxon copper alloy cruciform brooch. The brooch has a sub-rectangular headplate divided into three smaller vertically set rectangular panels; the central panel is slightly proud of the flanking panels. The central panel is decorated at the left and right perimeter with a row of punched dots. The top and bottom perimeters of the headplate are slightly concave. To the left and right of the headplate is a half-rounded copper alloy collared knop, cast integrally with the headplate. At the top of the headplate, in the centre, is a separate half-rounded collared knop which appears …
Created on: Thursday 14th June 2018
Last updated: Monday 23rd March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sleaford area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-EB7350
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast gilt copper-alloy and iron saucer brooch of probable Anglo-Saxon attribution dating to the Early Medieval period, c. 450-550- AD. It is circular in plan, with a raised obliquely-angled rim projecting around virtually its entire circumference. The interior of the front panel is decorated with the central chip-carved design of a six pointed star (demonstrating a central enlarged ring-dot motif) within a concentric star-shaped border and an inwardly-facing hollow triangular motif in each resulting spandrel. Copious traces of gilding survive on this surface, particularl…
Created on: Monday 11th June 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fordham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-E71DC1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A late 10th to 11th century AD Cloisonné disc brooch. See Buckton 1986, p.12, fig.4, no.11 and Weetch Type 20.A. cross with lobes. This brooch weighs 6.89g, and measures 25.0mm on the same axis as the pin x 25.7mm. The back-plate has a thickness of 1.6mm and is circular with twelve approximately equally spaced rounded lobes projecting out from the edge. Four of these lobes have a diameter ranging between 4.5mm - 5.1mm. The upper surface of these four lobes have a copper-alloy collar, within which sits a glass sphere. The two slightly larger lobes are positioned opposite each other…
Created on: Monday 11th June 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-FF6074
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy early medieval disc brooch, dating from c. 5th to 6th century AD. The brooch is flat and circular, with a border of small punched ring-and-dot motifs running round the edge of the disc. Many of these motifs are now worn on the very edge, so that they appear crescentic. There is also a central circular dot. The reverse is not decorated. There is the remains of the sub-circular pin lug on one edge, with orange iron staining surrounding this, suggesting the pin was iron. On the opposite edge is the trapezoidal catchplate, now folded over so the end touches t…
Created on: Thursday 31st May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
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Record ID: SF-EF76BD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper-alloy detachable side knob originating from an Anglo-Saxon florid cruciform brooch of Martin's group 4 dating to the Early Medieval period, c. 520-570 AD. The knob consists a central sub-rectangular panel depicting an anthropomorphic mask on its upper surface with prominent pelleted eyes, heavy brows and an elongated nose. Each side of the knob below the nose than has a further curved projecting element, together forming the moustache of the human face. Each curves around a sub-circular aperture. The curving elements individually take the form of a beaked pre…
Created on: Friday 18th May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 24th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chippenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9CA914
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late early-medieval copper alloy disc brooch with cast Borre-style decoration, comprising a concave-sided figure with each of the four corners extended to form interlaced, double-strand knots. On the reverse the pin fittings comprise the pin lug set parallel to the edge and retaining the iron pin loop, and the catchplate at a right angle to the edge (an Anglo-Scandinavian arrangement). A very recent break has removed a small piece of the edge. Diameter 28.8mm. Thickness (excluding pin fixings) 1.5mm. Weight 7.38g. 10th century. Kershaw 2013, 56 - 65, East Anglian Series Type I.
Created on: Wednesday 2nd May 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
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Record ID: BUC-717EA7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy early medieval nummular brooch, dating from the mid to late Saxon period, AD 800-1100. The brooch is disc shaped with moulded decoration. The brooch is decorated like an obverse of a coin, with the profile of a laureate bust facing right. Surrounding this is a legend which seems to read I [...] IIVIINN. This is in turn surrounded by two borders of raised pellets. On the reverse is a rectangular loop on one edge, with a projection on the outer edge forming a double pin lug.There are the remains of the catch plate on the opposite edge, this is sub rectangul…
Created on: Monday 30th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
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Record ID: SF-6F1ACD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) disc brooch, dating to c. AD 450-550. The brooch has a front decorated with a central circular perforation, at least two blind-drilled dots (at 2 o'clock and 6 o'clock) and a pair of closely-spaced fine concentric grooves encircling them, about halfway between the centre and the edge. The reverse of the brooch still has a semi-circular pin lug surviving, set at right angles to the edge of the brooch and with a central circular hole now blocked with iron corrosion. The catchplate is missing, along with about a third of the brooch.…
Created on: Monday 30th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eyke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-F3BA97
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval copper-alloy brooch fragment. Length: 34 mm, width: 20 mm, thickness: 4 mm, weight: 6.21 g. The object comprises the incomplete headplate only, and is probably from a cruciform brooch. The headplate is flat and rectangular, and missing most of its edge; it is decorated with five (two incomplete) ring-and-dot motifs, one centrally placed and the others in each corner. There is no evidence for any wings. At one edge of the headplate is a centrally placed top knob cast in one with the headplate. This is very worn, but is half-round, so semi-circular in cross-section. It…
Created on: Tuesday 24th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 13th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rutland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-767D86
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Saxon to Late Saxon copper alloy openwork disc brooch of Weetch type 15.B, with four sub-triangular apertures disclosing an equal-armed cross within a circle. On the front there is a drilled or punched dot in the centre and an engraved line follows the perimeter. Both these features are probably compass drawn. On the reverse a transverse pin lug, with small 'ears' at both upper corners, retains remains of the iron pin loop. There is no catchplate. It must have been attached with solder, its former position being marked by a slight change of surface colouring in a patch where th…
Created on: Wednesday 18th April 2018
Last updated: Saturday 28th March 2020
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Record ID: SF-4CA667
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) small-long brooch. The head comprises a central rectangular plate with three sides extended in three flat semi-circular knops; one of the knops is heavily damaged. The fourth side extends in the arched bow, which has a D-shaped cross section and tapers towards the break. The bow is thicker in the middle. The front of the headplate is decorated with a central ring-and-dot, while the bow has in its front a very abraded longitudinal groove. The reverse of the headplate has the integral lug, which has stains of iron corrosion. It …
Created on: Monday 16th April 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 16th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rendlesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-91234D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment from an early Anglo-Saxon gilded silver disc brooch. The fragment is asymmetrical in shape, with breaks on all edges. The front has a cast relief geometric pattern with part of a double-strand circular collar for a missing glass or gem setting; to one side of this is a double-strand triangle, and there are other ridges whose shapes cannot now be reconstructed. Dimensions: Length 14.1mm, maximum width 10mm, minimum width 2.8mm, thickness 2.1mm, weight 0.8g. Discussion: The fragment refits with (or joins to) Fragment B of NM…
Created on: Wednesday 14th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 26th June 2023
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Record ID: BUC-1541AE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An almost-complete copper alloy early medieval disc brooch, dating from the 5th to 6th century AD. The brooch is an irregular circular shape, with worn breaks and notches around the edge of the disc. In the centre is a punched ring-and-dot motif, surrounded by a second fainter incised ring. Placed at regular intervals around the centre of the brooch are six further ring-and-dot motifs. Running along the edge of the disc is a repeated border of a triangle stamp, each triangle with the apex inwards; above each triangle is a small stamped annulet. The triangles have a textured surface, p…
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
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Record ID: SF-FFE1F6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) small-long brooch fragment. The fragmentary head comprises a central rectangular plate with three sides extended in three flat semi-circular knops. The fourth side has an old break, probably where the broad bow, now missing, once joined the rectangular headplate. The knop on the opposite side of the break is pitted and very worn. The front is decorated with a pair of incised lines across the junction of each knop with the headplate. Both faces are badly pitted and have scratches. The reverse still has the vertical single lug, encrusted with …
Created on: Wednesday 7th March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 16th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eyke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-D58AE0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy Early Medieval Anglo-Scandinavian disc brooch decorated in Terslev style, probably dating from the 10th century, about AD 900 - 1000. The brooch is circular and has a domed boss at the centre. It is decorated with four symmetrical C-scrolls or volutes, their curved backs towards the centre, bound by a double-stranded square which has a lozenge-shaped element at each corner. The lozenges indicate that the motif is Kershaw type IV. The brooch is gilded. On the reverse is a double pin lug and a lug to act as a catchplate. Both these are incomplete. The brooch has a s…
Created on: Monday 5th March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 9th January 2019
Spatial data recorded.