Record ID: NLM-239E88
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch. Cast cruciform brooch, comprising head, mid bow, lower bow and foot and retaining a single U-shaped lug behind the middle of the head and a folded catch plate between lappets at the top of the lower bow. Bent across the head by plough or spade strike. A rectangular plate has slightly indented or concave upper and lower edges, a central trapezoid panel, also plain, and is surmounted by an integrally cast half-round collared top knob which is lightly hollowed behind. An incised horizontal groove passes across the base of the central panel on the head, with oppo…
Created on: Monday 16th November 2020
Last updated: Monday 27th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thoresway', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-A05C4A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast gilded silver miniature square-headed brooch. The head bears a central motif of three nested rectangles enclosing a horizontal rib, with an outer border of closely juxtaposed stamped circles of diameter 1mm. A curved bow springs from the innermost of the nested rectangles, and has a central longitudinal rib flanked by paired grooves. A U-shaped lug on the back retains the corroded stub of an iron pin. The central rib continues to form the longer shaft of a voided cross potent set centrally in a rectilinear mid-bow expansion with its outer angles curved. There are three small curv…
Created on: Monday 1st July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 22nd July 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Barnoldby le Beck', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-A96C8A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Terminal from a late Early Medieval copper alloy penannular brooch, probably Irish and of 9th century date. The terminal is flat, triangular, and is rectangular in section. Although all three sides have patches of corrosion, the original wall can be seen thus demonstrating this is a terminal. The left and right perimeters of the terminal are decorated with four incised straight lines. A straight incised line is located from the centre of the terminal and travels to the outer edge. Three diagonally incised lines extend downwards from the central line on either side, thus forming an abs…
Created on: Monday 20th August 2018
Last updated: Friday 28th September 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-DE51DB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy Early Medieval brooch, a Great Square Headed brooch dating from AD 500 - 600. The surviving piece is part of the footplate with the pin catchplate on the reverse. The catchplate extends into a central rib. Both ends and both sides of the brooch are broken, though there is a small length of the original edge surviving. The fragment is decorated with a central rib springing from possible nostrils and with a large convex pellet near the upper break. To each side is a ladder-like ribbon with transverse grooves. The outer edges of these are curved to follow …
Created on: Friday 12th August 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LVPL-30A793
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete copper alloy brooch of Early Medieval date, late 8th-9th century. The brooch is circular in plan and flat with zoomorphic and openwork decoration. The brooch is decorated with a central 'kite-shaped' cross, the terminals of which are rounded, expanding out over the edge of the circumference of the plate. Each rounded terminal contains a circular groove within which is an undecorated area containing a circular rivet hole. Three of the outer incomplete rivets remain in the holes along with a central rivet while one is missing. It is likely that these rivets when co…
Created on: Thursday 4th August 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 20th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nannerch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-5B7C89
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval copper-alloy Cross Brooch. The brooch was original cross-shaped, but two of the arms are now incomplete. Each arm is sub-rectangular in plan, being slightly wider at the terminal than at the centre of the cross. The perimeter is decorated by a single linear groove. One arm contains three irregularly places diagonal grooves or 'dashes'. The other arm only contains two. In the centre of the brooch are four ringed dot motifs. These are roughly arranged one at the beginning of each arm, but they are somewhat crudely done. An integral loop is located behind one of the arm…
Created on: Thursday 18th February 2016
Last updated: Monday 22nd February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wragby area', grid reference and parish protected.

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: 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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-EC3547
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tongue-shaped terminal from an Early Medieval copper-alloy possible great square-headed brooch. The fragment suggests the brooch has been torn and broken. At the break is a pair of scrolled side projections. The brooch has a rivet and a separate sheet fitting on the back. On the front are four concentric U-shaped ridges which enclose a central oval ridge at the upper edge of which the rivet is visible. The ridges are randomly decorated with punched decoration.
Created on: Sunday 20th September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

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: DOR-F6404F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gilded copper alloy early medieval strip brooch dating to the period c. AD 700 - 800. The pin and part of the plate are missing. The brooch consists of a plate which would have originally been lozengiform, but is now triangular due to an old horizontal break running across the plate. The plate is decorated with an incised pattern, possibly a coiled zoomorphic beast within two concentric lozengiform ridges. The obverse of the plate retains a substantial amount of gilding. There is an oval perforation of unknown function just below the body of the coiled beast. The plate h…
Created on: Friday 21st November 2014
Last updated: Friday 11th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Berwick St John', 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: CAM-9D1178
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: City of Peterborough
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Early-Medieval Brooch. This is a fragment of a bow brooch, most likely from a Cruciform Brooch but possibly from a Small Long Brooch, not enough of this artefact survives to be able to accurately determine which type of brooch this fragment once was. A transverse worn break is present at both ends of this fragment. The fragment has a narrow incomplete high-arched bow with a semi-circular cross-section being domed on the upper surface and flat on the underside. The bow has a width of 10.7mm and thickness of 3.0mm. The high-arched bow has a maximum depth …
Created on: Friday 7th March 2014
Last updated: Thursday 26th June 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-308D55
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy trefoil plate brooch of Late Early Medieval (Scandiniavian / Viking) dating (AD 850 to AD 1050). Around two thirds (66%) of the brooch is present, consisting of two of the three arms. The third arm is missing, presumed lost in antiquity. The surviving arms are sub triangular in shape, with a rounded tip. The front is slightly convex and the reverse is flat and undecorated. The front has been decorated with a a triple strand interlace design wrapped around six animals. The animal heads are all positioned in the centre, with three pointing inwards and three…
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 4th December 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-1F5CE5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy brooch with enamel and gilding. Circular, with an enamel design resembling a seven pointed star - or a six pointed star with a thick stalk - on its raised pedestal, which is of thickness 2.9mm, and detached from a separate back plate of thickness 1.2mm, which retains gilding, and which may have had a series of projecting lugs. Though the enamel was confined in cells, there is little visible of their walls. A central square cell contains brick red enamel. The star motif is of light blue enamel, and the field between the points of the star is dark blue. The rim of the back …
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 12th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-CFC481
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn cast copper alloy fragment of the bow of an Anglo-Saxon great square-headed brooch. The bow fragment is has an arched upper section with three raised ribs; beneath this is a worn triangular section that depicts the face of a fantastical creature with pronounced eyebrows, eyes and cheek bones and a curled snout; either side of this beast lines radiate out to the edge. The reverse is worn and pitted with corrosion; there appears to be the remains of two ridges, possibly part of a catchplate or the attachment for the rest of the brooch. This fragment is too small to be able to asc…
Created on: Friday 8th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-747ED0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content for the brooch fragment of 89% with copper, lead, gold and tin also detected; it weighs 3.51 grams. The fragment consists of the foot-plate of a miniature square-headed brooch; height, 35mm (surviving); width, 24mm. In the centre is a hollow-sided, lozenge-shaped panel enclosed by a border ridge, which is asymmetrically decorated with zoomorphic elements of Salin's Style I including two limbs and a ribbon-like body. The foot-plate tapers to a long, animal-head terminal with punched, circu…
Created on: Tuesday 11th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Cave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-D62660
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy zoomorphic terminal from an early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch of 'Klapperschmuck' (literally 'rattle-jewellery) type. The object has a great likeness to a standard early narrow cruciform-brooch horse-head terminal (c. 430 - 480 AD) but the end of the horse's nose is unusual. From above, the tip of the terminal is parallel-sided with a central and two lateral raised ribs. In side view this part of the object is circular in section and is apparently pierced transversely by a 2mm diameter hole which is still filled with soil. Behind the end of the nose is a slightly raise…
Created on: Friday 9th November 2012
Last updated: Saturday 6th October 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-AFFF48
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy foot of an Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch of Aberg Group II or III, with a zoomorphic horsehead terminal. The length is 39mm, and the width is 15mm. It dates from between c450 AD and c600 AD. The PAS database has other Aberg Group II and III brooches, but none with that closely match this one. There are a number of records that have a similar zoomorphic horsehead as a part of their design.
Created on: Friday 3rd August 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 7th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thirsk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-D78BE5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch from the late 5th century AD. The foot is D-shaped in cross-section before flattening out. The foot has a zoomorphic terminal with two eyes picked out by raised dots. The object has expanded circular nostrils above the spatulate extension. Above the zoomorphic terminal the foot is decorated with three transverse mouldings. A small amount of the base of the catchplate remains on the reverse. The object has a dark green patina and is in good condition. Similar examples can be found on p105-107, MacGregor and Bolick, (1993). Th…
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scopwick', grid reference and parish protected.