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Record ID: DENO-8F4358
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This report concerns a silver penny of Edward the Confessor, which has been gilded and mounted as a brooch or badge. It was found in isolation around 5" below the surface. The penny is of the Hammered Cross type of Edward the Confessor (AD 1042-66), minted c. 1060, and issued by the moneyer Thor of York. The coins has been gilded on the reverse, to display the cross design, and has been pierced in four places to allow a pin fitting and catch-plate to be riveted to the obverse. Traces of copper alloy rivets remain, although almost nothing of the actual fastenings survive. Brooches or b…
Created on: Friday 4th June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Unstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-B51EF6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver hammered penny struck for Edward the Confessor (1047-66), Expanding Cross type (heavy sub-type) (North 141, no 823), issued by the moneyer Morcere at Bury St Edmunds c. AD 1050-55, and subsequently modified to form coin-brooch or badge. The reverse has been gilded, indicating that this side was intended to be displayed, with the gilding extending round the edge onto the obverse, leaving most of the obverse uncovered. A variety of pin fittings are known from coin-brooches of this period. These are most commonly riveted to the coin, but occasionally soldered. In this case no si…
Created on: Friday 3rd November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 9th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-B43881
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a silver penny of Æthelred II (978-1016), probably of 'Last Small Cross' type (North 777), minted by Eatstan at Exeter. It appears to be a reverse die link with a coin in the Copenhagen collections (SCBI 7 no.171; EMC 1007.1071). The remains of an iron strip are attached to the obverse and the reverse is gilded, demonstrating that this coin was once modified to create an artefact, most likely a brooch but possibly a mount, with the reverse of the coin as the front face of the object. Obverse: [ ]RÆD REX A[ ] Reverse: EATSTA[ ]EC Date: Coin c.1009-17. …
Created on: Friday 14th December 2012
Last updated: Monday 18th May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-CE2AB5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver hammered penny of Edward the confessor, 1042-1066 AD which has been adapted and reused as a brooch or decorative mount at a later date. Issued 1053-6 AD. Obverse shows bust right, bearded, wearing pointed helmet, holding sceptre. Obverse legend reads E[DWER]D REX. Reverse shows short cross voided, each arm terminating in three crescents, annulet at centre of cross. Reverse legend reads +LEOFP__LDO[NG]IPE. Although two of the letters in the moneyer's name are unclear, and possibly blundered, this is recognizably an attempt to represent the name LEOFPALD (Leofwold),…
Created on: Thursday 16th August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.