Record ID: LEIC-679795
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval copper alloy cruciform brooch fragment, 50mm long, 44mm wide and 10mm thick. The brooch is in fair condition with a brownish patina and weighs 19.54g. The object has been well made but is suffering from various forms of corrosion. It consists of a central headplate which has a large central panel, with a thin recessed panel at each side. Attached to this are three integrally cast half-round knobs; each is identical, with a base and waist below the hemispherical dome. They are distinctly rounded, not elongated as many knobs are. A short stub of the bow is present, …
Created on: Tuesday 11th September 2007
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-0E83C3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval copper alloy small long brooch fragment, 45.3mm long, 25mm wide and 10.6mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 10.28 grams. The object consists of a rectangular headplate which is decorated with a border of incised circles, 1mm in diameter. There are two triangular notches in the lower edge, one on each side of the bow. The bow is short, curved and has a flat triangular shaped terminal on each edge, the point of which joins the central ridge which runs its length. Below this the object is flat and rectangular in form with three raised h…
Created on: Monday 1st October 2007
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-218570
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval copper alloy brooch fragment, 44.8mm long, 9.2mm wide and 4mm thick. The object is in poor condition with a brown patina and weighs 4.54grams The object consists of the lower part of a cruciform brooch which is missing a lot of its surface. It is rectangular in form and begins with a stylised animal head which is sub semi-circular in section and has bulging eyes. There is a rectangular area above it which may have a decorated border. The reverse shows the base of a long catchplate.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-B99CE7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval copper alloy brooch fragment, 40mm long, 8mm wide and 4mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 5.48grams. The object forms the terminal of a cruciform brooch. It is rectangular in form and section and has a stylised animal head forming most of its surface. The object is very worn but the animal eyes can just be seen close to its centre.
Created on: Tuesday 9th October 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-5C1F57
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval copper alloy cruciform brooch fragment, 68.4mm long, 50.4mm wide and 18.7mm thick (at bow) weight unknown. The brooch is good condition and has a good green patina. The brooch consists of a rectangular shaped head plate with two trapezoidal side plates, all plain. There are two integral semi circular(?) knops. The small bow has a triangular section with a visible ridge down its centre. Below this is a small section of rectangular bow which has two sub rectangular lappets, with central rounded protrusions, attached. At this point the brooch has snapped, probably due to p…
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2007
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-604DE5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) copper alloy disc brooch, 18mm long, 15mm wide and 2mm thick. The object is in poor condition with a reddish patina and weighs 5.59grams. The brooch, which would have been circular in form, is missing nearly all of its orginal surface and is badly worn. It clearly shows its Borre knot design of a central circular depression surrounded by a concaved sided lozenge motif, which has from each corner double strand interlace emerging in a knotted formation. The reverse of the brooch contains a turned catchplate aligned with the edge of the brooch and oppo…
Created on: Monday 29th October 2007
Last updated: Monday 26th November 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-1BF711
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval copper alloy small-long brooch, 42mm long, 25mm wide and 7mm thick, the brooch is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 4.27grams. Around the head plate are the remains of three projections which were originally circular with central perforation to produce an annular shape.
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2007
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-80FA38
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
early Medieval copper alloy and gold brooch fragment, 36mm long, 20mm wide and 10mm thick. The brooch is in poor condition with a powdery green patina and weighs 16.82grams. The object consists of a curved bow which has a raised rectangular protrusion in its centre which is picked out in gold. part of the head plate survives and is decorated with incisions picked out in gold. behind this is a two semi-circular copper alloy lugs which hold the remains of an iron pin.
Created on: Thursday 6th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-B08232
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon copper -cruciform brooch, 41mm long, 28mm wide and 13mm thick. It has a rectangular headplate with a raised central panel which flares slightly towards the bow, into which it smoothly merges. The flatter wings taper slightly outwards. There are three small integrally cast semi-circular knobs. The bow curves gently upwards and has a sub-triangular cross-section. Below the bow is half of a flat panel, across which the brooch has snapped. The reverse contains a single semi-circular lug which is covered with iron staining. The brooch is small and simple with no extra dec…
Created on: Friday 31st October 2008
Last updated: Friday 29th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'nr Melton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-7EF505
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Early-Medieval gilded copper alloy saucer brooch, 26mm in diameter and 2mm thick. The brooch is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 5.91g. The brooch is circular in form and rectangular in section. It is missing its angled lip, but has a decorated surface contained within an incised border. The decoration consists of a roughly central dot and ring which is surrounded by relief decoration in relatively crude Salin's Style I, consisting of raised short lines, concentric curves, a triangle and concentric semi-circles. The reverse of the brooch contains the traces of a …
Created on: Thursday 4th December 2008
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-366E15
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon copper alloy small-long brooch foot, 36mm long, 18mm wide and 9mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 6.11g. The object consists of a tiny fragment of bow above a flared sub-triangular foot which has a curved base and is decorated with a border of punched circles. Above this is a moulding, semi-circular in cross-section, which is decorated with five transverse incised lines. At this point on the reverse begins a sub-rectangular catchplate 15mm long. The rest of the brooch consists of a short rectangular-section flat panel which is de…
Created on: Tuesday 6th January 2009
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-8440D6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval copper alloy brooch foot, 27mm long, 15mm wide and 6mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 2.92 grams. The object is sub rectangular, but appears to have originally been triangular in form as it has damage to both sides. It has traces of a border of punched triangles and its upper edge is the lower part of a shaft with raised horizontal bands. The reverse contains the remains of a catchplate 12mm long and 2mm thick. The object is most probably an example of a small- long brooch, similar to eg.668, fig.235 in Hattatts ancient brooches.
Created on: Thursday 22nd January 2009
Last updated: Saturday 23rd October 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-FBB697
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy cruciform or small-long brooch, 23mm long, 20mm wide and 6mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 3.89 grams. Part of the rectangular head plate and one flat damaged knob survive. The headplate has a line of circular stamps running up its edges, but no other decoration can be seen. The upper part of the bow is present, protruding from a rectangular protrusion at the base of the plate. The reverse contains one centrally placed, damaged semi-circular lug which has a large patch of iron corrosion surrounding …
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-4FC5D1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Terminal from an early Anglo-Saxon florid cruciform brooch foot. The brooch is decorated with chip-carved Style I animals; the hip and eyes of an animal can be seen right next to each other. There is also stamped decoration along the sides of the brooch. The stamps and some other areas of the brooch show traces of gilding but this has been lost from most of the surface. Beyond the triangular panel of Style I, the extreme end of the foot is in the form of a short rectangular panel. Recorded from an illustration on an identification record from 1992.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd February 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 27th July 2011
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Record ID: LEIC-501104
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Anglo-Saxon ansate brooch with plain bow and discoidal terminals with chip-carved decoration. Recorded from an illustration on an identification record from 1987.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd February 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th March 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-1D5537
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval copper-alloy strip brooch, in fair condition, consisting of a flat lozenge-shaped plate which is undecorated except for a scored horizontal line beneath the spring. The integral spring emerges from the top corner of the brooch and coils once before straightening to form the pin. The base of the brooch and its catchplate are missing. 41mm long, 18mm wide and 1mm thick; it weighs 2.04g. This brooch is a simpler version of HAMP-CEBED7 which has intricate carved decoration and gilding.The type has been confirmed as early-medieval only in recent years. Indeed, such brooch…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd June 2010
Last updated: Friday 2nd February 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-1DEB91
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval copper alloy brooch fragment, 25mm long 17mm wide and 1mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 1.82g. It consists of the damaged head plate of a bow brooch, either a small long or a cruciform type., plus a small piece of bow. The headplate is sub-rectangular and appears undecorated. It has an incomplete single pin bar lug on the reverse, broken through the perforation. The top of the bow is thick and rectangular in cross-section, with an incised line. The bow has hints of a longitudinal median ridge. Late 5th or 6th century.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-400CB3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon copper alloy small-long brooch, 53mm long, 22mm wide and 9mm thick. The brooch is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 8.64g. The brooch has some damage to its head, with one knob missing. The head plate is rectangular and is bordered with curved or perhaps semi-circular punchmarks. It has three flat semi-circular knobs, one missing, as big as the head; they each have a semi-circular notch taken out at each side of their base, making them mushroom-shaped and the entire head trefoil. The bow is flattened in its centre, which appears to have been done…
Created on: Thursday 14th February 2008
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-6D8A23
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval brooch fragment, probably from an Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch of the 5th or 6th century. The remaining fragment is part of a zoomorphic finial, representing an animal's snout and nostrils. The object is in fair condition with a dark brown patina, is 27mm long, 14mm wide, 2mm thick and weighs 2.28g.
Created on: Tuesday 26th October 2010
Last updated: Saturday 20th March 2021
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Record ID: SWYOR-A68F41
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Disc mount from the bow of a Great Square-headed brooch, gilt copper alloy, Early Medieval. The decoration on the front comprises of two concentric rings, between which is a repeated design pattern of elongated 'Z's arranged circumferentially. At the centre is a circular boss. The boss and outer section are not gilded. The reverse has a short broken rivet projecting from the centre. This would have originally have gone through a hole in the bow of the brooch. The whole mount has a glossy deep green patina and measures 30.5mm in diameter x 4.7mm thick, and weighs 8.06g. The mount proba…
Created on: Thursday 19th June 2008
Last updated: Saturday 9th February 2019
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