Record ID: YORYM-91FCE3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Original identification (with the object type 'Personal Ornament'): Copper-alloy pendant, possibly of a 'Thor's Hammer' type. The object comprises a flat-sectioned, axe-shaped pendant. There is a perforation with iron inclusions at the top of the narrow 'axe base', this being the area located behind the flared edge of the axehead. The face is decorated with semicircles with dots in the centre. The reverse is not decorated. Helen Geake writes: An alternative identification for this object is that it is the repaired foot of a small-long brooch. The foot may have broken off, been ti…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2007
Last updated: Friday 26th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-CB94B2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2007 T445. Viking-period hacksilver fragment from the terminal of an Irish type of brooch. Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content for the fragment of over 90%, with copper, gold and lead. The find comprises an irregular, four-sided fragment of cast plate which has been cut from the terminal of a bossed penannular brooch; length, 20 mm. There are remains of incised decoration including half of a plain roundel to one side, enclosed by a plain, divided frame that projects from one point on the circumference…
Created on: Wednesday 10th October 2007
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snape with Thorp', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-2E0F25
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy small ansate brooch, from the Frankish Merovingian period, possibly made in England. The brooch has a rounded head, with an incised triangle. Below the head there is a collar. The head-plate has a moulded lug on the reverse on its centre-line immediately above the junction with the bow. The bow is arched and rounded. Below the bow is a wide collar, which has an incised line. Below this a lobe flares out and behind this the lower part of the bow can be seen, but it has broken off. The pin is missing. The metal is dark greyish-brown in colour and the brooch survives…
Created on: Thursday 6th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fangfoss', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-B664E6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast lead Late Saxon brooch. The brooch is circular and flat. It has been decorated on the front with a ladder-style border. Inside this are three crescents, each decorated with the ladder-style border. There is a raised crescent inside each one. There is a Y-shaped field between the crescents. There is a central, large pellet and a row of smaller pellets in each arm of the 'Y'. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The remains of the lug and catchplate can be seen and these have been arranged longitudinally. Both parts are badly squashed and damaged. No pin survives.
Created on: Monday 12th January 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Paull', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-285423
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Published
A very fine and elaborate copper alloy, cast openwork disc brooch, Anglo-Saxon in date and cultural association. Brooches of this type tend to date to the 6th - 7th Century and are often found in burial contexts or in areas where inhumations are known. The brooch has a backwards swastika design, achieved through the removal of four T-shaped sections, forming the openwork design. The front is decorated with five circular stamps, comprising of a dot within two concentric circles. One stamp is in the centre of the brooch, with the other four located at the end of each arm where it mee…
Created on: Wednesday 11th August 2010
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NABURN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-6660C2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon (or Anglian) cruciform brooch. The fragment comprises part of the head plate and one knob, probably the top knob. The head plate has been badly damaged but retains its broadly rectangular shape. There is a raised central panel which is edged on either side with punchmarks, probably annulets. The surviving knob is half-round with a flat-topped basal moulding decorated with two fine grooves, and a further fine groove at the base of the rounded terminal. The moulding and terminal are divided by a broad groove. The metal has a mid reddis…
Created on: Tuesday 7th September 2010
Last updated: Monday 30th January 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yapham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-06B5C2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Terminal from a copper-alloy penannular brooch of early-medieval date and Irish origin. A short length of the curved frame survives, with a D-shaped cross-section, and there is a thickening where this joins the terminal. The terminal is sub-triangular and decorated with a shallow cast relief design. The fragment is corroded so that it is hard to see the details of the design, but it appears to be formed around a sunken lozenge shape within an oval frame with D-shaped cells around the edge of this frame, two above and one below. The edges appear either wavy or incomplete; all edges …
Created on: Monday 27th September 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 21st August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yapham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-FD5972
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a cast copper-alloy cruciform brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date, c. 450-600 AD. The lower arch of the bow survives, with a faceted centre with vertical carination, and a step to a flat panel below. Below this. the foot begins with a rectangular flat panel decorated with an incised line within a vertical line of punched ring and dot motifs down either side. The catchplate remains intact on the reverse. Extending out from the side of this panel are two rounded lappets with relief decoration of an outward-looking profile predatory bird's head, each with an angled headframe, a r…
Created on: Wednesday 10th June 2009
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Skirpenbeck', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-FD5D42
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
EarlyAnglo-Saxon disc brooch made from copper alloy, with stamped decoration. It dates from the 5th or 6th century; probably c. 450-550 AD. The brooch has a flat, circular disc with the remains of the lug to hold the hinge for the pin and the catchplate on the reverse. Both are damaged, there is a lot of iron corrosion on the lug. The front is decorated with 13 ring and dot motifs around the outside and a single ring and dot in the centre. Outside the central ring and dot is a ring of tiny U-shaped stamped punchmarks, and there are traces of similar punchmarks around the outer ring as…
Created on: Wednesday 10th June 2009
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Skirpenbeck', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-B93360
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy detachable knob from an early Anglo-Saxon florid cruciform brooch. It has a slim undecorated rectangular extension at the top, above moulded Style I anthropomorphic decoration of a man's face, with large pellet eyes under bold brows which meet to form a straight prominent nose, with a bulbous end. A triple-strand curve emerges from under each eye and continues to curve downwards and outwards, resembling a moustache but actually a bird's beak, to end in a curved headframe with a bird's eye and curved beak. The details are unclear (there is a possible casting flaw re…
Created on: Friday 19th June 2009
Last updated: Friday 7th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brantingham', grid reference and parish protected.