Record ID: LVPL-725484
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy brooch of the cruciform type, dating to the early Anglo-Saxon period, from c. AD 500-550. The head of the brooch is mostly missing with only a small fragment and one partial wing remaining. From the centre of the lower edge of the headplate a D-sectioned arched bow extends downwards with ridged moulding at each corner. The lower bow is flat and recessed with zoomorphic projections. Each projection is pierced with a circular perforation, one of which is incomplete. Above the perforation they are decorated with moulded linear grooves and an oval groove whic…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scopwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-F3154D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Stockport
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and possible mis-cast copper alloy disc brooch. The brooch can be classified as Weetch's Type 5, with concentric circles, which she dates to the 10th century (2013, vol 1, 78). Originally the brooch would have been circular, with a slightlyconvex front decorated with a series of cast designs; at the centre of the brooch is a large raised boss with a central pellet, surrounding this is a circle formed from small pellets enclosed by a raised rib / ring. The outer edge is decorated with small raised bosses which are encircled (ring-and-dot). Between each of these is a sm…
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 29th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marple', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-ABA47F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early Anglo-Saxon copper alloy knop from a cruciform brooch. The knop is plano-convex in section, collared, and has a hole through the centre. The object has a smooth mid-green patina and can be dated to the late 5th-early 6th century. A more complete example of a cruciform brooch recorded on the database is NMS-627FA7. Dimensions: 13mm in length, 13mm in width, 7mm thick, 4.6g
Created on: Thursday 16th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 16th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wood Enderby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-6D44C5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy small-long brooch of Early Medieval date, about AD 500 - 600. The head plate is missing. The upper bow is curved in profile arching outwards from the missing headplate before straightening to form the leg. The leg is rectangular in plan and flares outwards in width to form the sub-triangular foot with a thickened flared terminal. The upper bow is decorated with two rows of double transverse grooves. From the centre of the lower groove a central vertical groove runs the length of the upper bow terminating where the bow turns under with two further transver…
Created on: Friday 17th February 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norton-on-Derwent', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-1C6A73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead alloy late Anglo-Saxon disc brooch of Weetch's type 13.A, with raised flat-topped centre. The surviving fragment has a central circular raised boss which is decorated, surrounded by a flattened decorated outer rim. The central boss measures 18mm in diameter and is 3.5mm thick. It is decorated with a central pellet within three C-shaped scrolls with their backs to the centre of the brooch, so forming a triangular shape. There is a pellet in the spiral end of each scroll. The surrounding flattened border is decorated with six rows of conjoined circumferential pellets …
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2016
Last updated: Friday 26th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scrayingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-501633
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Anglo-Saxon small-long brooch of Early Medieval date. The headplate is flat, cruciform with a central rectangular panel and the remains of semi-circular arms at the top. The side arms are missing due to ancient breaks. There is no visible decoration on the front of the headplate which is heavily pitted. On the back face of the head is a single semi-circular incomplete pin lug. The pin is missing. The bow arches out from the head of the object tapering in width slightly where it terminates with an ancient break. The foot of the object and catchplate are missi…
Created on: Wednesday 5th October 2016
Last updated: Thursday 14th May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntington', grid reference and parish protected.

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: LVPL-7EBD4F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bolton
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy penannular brooch of c.9-10th century date. The brooch is sub-circular with a plain frame, oval in cross-section, which expands forming two flattened triangular terminals. Between the flattened terminals and the rest of the frame are stylised horses' heads, the noses at the frame end; the noses have upturned tips and there are two bulbous eyes on each head. The pin is complete and undecorated apart from the loop of the pin which is ribbed with expanded openings. Dimensions: 70.7 mm in diameter, length of pin 120.9 mm.
Created on: Wednesday 8th June 2016
Last updated: Friday 8th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bolton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-160B8C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy probable cruciform brooch dating to the early Anglo-Saxon period, 450-550AD. The object has a rectangular headplate with punched dot decoration around the edges, perhaps a double row down either edge. From each side and the top of the headplate a small rounded knob projects. The top knob is larger and D-shaped in cross-section, while the side knobs are smaller and flatter, and one is incomplete. On the reverse of the head are the remains of a double lug where the pin would have attached The bow arches outwards from the head. It terminates with an ancient break and th…
Created on: Thursday 10th March 2016
Last updated: Monday 26th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Washingborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-872B01
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon/Early-Medieval ansate brooch. It is missing the pin. The brooch is flat, rectangular in form with flattened rectangular terminals connected by a gently curving bow of the same width. At the base of the object a rounded knop decorates each edge. The upper edge of the brooch is incomplete but this decoration may have been repeated here. The front face of the brooch is decorated with single incised grooves running down each side forming a slightly uneven border. Between the grooves are seven punched ring-and-dot motifs. On the back face of t…
Created on: Thursday 3rd March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 8th March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wood Enderby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-94E464
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy middle Saxon Ansate brooch of Thörle's (2001) Group X C. The object has a semi-circular-sectioned head-plate, foot-plate and bow with transverse rib either side of the apex, either end of the bow and the terminal ends. The centre of the object is decorated with three ring-and-dot motifs, one at the apex and one to either side. Three more ring-and-dot motifs decorate the object between each transverse rib. On the reverse there is an incomplete double pin-lug with transverse hole. The catch-plate lug appears to be complete. The object can be dated to c. AD 650-850. A …
Created on: Thursday 10th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 10th December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wood Enderby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-01D185
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy button brooch of early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (c. AD 450-550). The brooch comprises a circular base with angled walls (turning outwards) surrounding it. The brooch depicts a facemask within a concentric circle. The brow is made of a thick horizontal line above another horizontal line which may represent eyebrows. The eyes are circular pellets and the wedge shaped nose joins the possible eyebrows. The lips are formed of a raised lentoid while the cheekbones, or possibly helmet cheekpieces, are formed of curved rectangular mouldings. The face of brooch is gilded. …
Created on: Wednesday 9th September 2015
Last updated: Thursday 11th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shorwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-4DFD3E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Anglo-Scandinavian trefoil brooch. The fragment consists of one of the arms or lobes of a brooch, with the other two missing. The object is decorated decorated in the Borre-Jelling style of the second half of the tenth century. Half way down on the left hand side, (when viewing the object) is a left-facing Jellinge-style create, with a round eye, open jaw and a 'pigtail' or ear lappet, extending downwards across the top of the animal's body. This creates an opening through which another lappet-like feature interlaces, extending upwards. The rest of…
Created on: Tuesday 14th July 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Selby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-368972
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
~~Four fragments of a silver bossed penannular brooch. The three largest fragments appear to join together and come from the brooch's terminal, while the smallest fragment is from another part of the brooch. The surviving parts of the brooch include the remains of four (possibly five) bosses, only one retaining the boss itself. On the front of the brooch fragments, the smaller bosses are enclosed by plain incised borders, while the two larger bosses are surrounded by a ring of punches resembling a billeted border. The same type of border runs along the surviving true edge of the l…
Created on: Friday 31st October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bagby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-EE0DC9
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Ansate brooch dating to the Early Medieval period. The head, bow and foot are D-shaped in cross-section. It has an arched middle section and flat rectangular terminals. It is decorated with a series of transverse ridges, one in its centre, one at the point where the arch ends and one at each terminal. At the rear of the object is a double pin lug which is incomplete and would have held the hinge and pin which are missing. The catchplate is almost complete. The object has a mid-brown patina and can be dated to c. AD 650 - AD 850.
Created on: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 4th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Washingborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-0FFDB6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Aberg Group V florid cruciform brooch dating to the Early Medieval period. The incomplete object is in two pieces. The object consists of the lower half of the brooch and is decorated with the chip-carving method. The front of the brooch has remains of gilding picking out the decoration. The upper fragment of the brooch comprises of the incomplete bow which is curved in profile. Below the bow the brooch is decorated with a rectangular stud in relief in its centre. The stud is surrounded by a rectangular border within which is a scroll-like design. To…
Created on: Tuesday 5th February 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 5th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Collingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-A135E3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy radiate brooch dating to the Early Medieval period. The object has a semi-circular head plate with three projections. Each projection is decorated with a transverse groove at its base and two vertical grooves. The bow is arched and is triangular in cross-section. The foot is triangular in plan and cross-section and terminates with a break. On the reverse of the object the lug remains and is covered with iron corrosion. The catchplate is complete and also contains iron corrosion indicating that the brooch had an iron pin. The object has a rough light green patina and …
Created on: Monday 21st May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Delamere', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-27D4B6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy small-long brooch dating to the early Anglo-Saxon period, 450-550 AD. The object has a trefoil head-plate with three flat D-shaped knobs around a central square. There is punched crescent decoration around the edges of the knobs and down either vertical edge of the central panel. On the reverse of the head, a single vertical pin bar lug is present, perforated from side to side; the perforation is blocked by iron from the pin bar. The bow arches outwards from the head. At the top and bottom of the bow are transverse mouldings. Below the bow is a flat panel with an…
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2012
Last updated: Monday 26th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cottam', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-6BF678
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy disc brooch dating to the Early Anglo-Saxon period. It is circular and flat. On the reverse of the object are the remains of the lug to hold the hinge for the pin and the remains of the catchplate. The front of the object is decorated with ring-and-dot motifs, 12 of which decorate the outside of the front, set in three groups of three alternating with single motifs. Within these is a pair of cast grooves; seven of the outer ring-and-dot motifs have been punched over the outer groove while the remaining five are closer to the edge of the object. An in…
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2012
Last updated: Thursday 11th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gresford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-922BF1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a cast copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch from the late 5th or 6th century AD. The fragment is a zoomorphic terminal from the foot of the brooch (pictured upside down). The object has expanded circular nostrils above the spatulate extension, which is decorated with a transverse groove above a row of stamp marks. The stamps appear to be annulets, but are largely obscured by soil. Each nostril has a central circular dot. Above the nostrils is the broken stub of the nose of the animal. The object has a dark green patina. Cruciform brooches with extensions below the …
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Last updated: Monday 30th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Acton', grid reference and parish protected.