Record ID: PAS-B8C216
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold sheet pommel composed of two highly stylised animals with a shared body. The pommel, which is high profiled and thin in cross-section, is made of five pieces of thick gold sheet. Two make up a double-skinned core into which the end of the tang fitted. Onto this core are soldered three smaller sheets. Two are moulded to form stylised heads with punched holes for the eyes, while a third arches over the underlying core and forms a shared body. The five sheets were originally soldered to each other and the joins between them are covered with a variety of beaded, twisted and…
Created on: Monday 13th October 2014
Last updated: Monday 13th October 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PAS-BE8B95
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon/Early medieval gold thread found during an archaeological excavation by AC Archaeology in 2009. A single tiny fragment of gold thread was recovered during the process of soil sampling of the fill of a small pit or post hole F328, which also contained a small quantity (12 sherds) of late Saxon/early Medieval pottery and two iron nails. The thread measures 3.5mm in length and less than 1mm in thickness. The fragment of gold thread from Barton Hill would therefore qualify as Treasure under two of the stipulated criteria of the Treasure Act: it is more than 300 years old and…
Created on: Friday 3rd August 2012
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shaftesbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-8709C3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: This remarkable piece is a double-sided seal matrix from a gold signet ring of Frankish type, diameter 12 mm, and with a gold content of approximately 98 per cent. It was designed to pivot on a pin which engaged with the shoulders of the ring itself, now lost. The bezel is engraved on one side with a long-haired frontal bust surmounted by a cross, with stylized drapery below; around this is a retrograde inscription in a mixture of capitals and lower case, which may be read as a female name, Baldehildis (Balthild). On the reverse is a scene with a male and a long-haired fe…
Created on: Monday 25th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Norwich area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-CF6701
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A gold biconical bead from a necklace, made from a single coiled length of plain unbeaded wire. Both ends of the wire appear original; one is neatly tapered and the other has a blunter end. The coils are soldered together, but there does not appear to be an internal backplate to which the wire is soldered, as there are occasional cracks through which the solid soil infilling can be seen. The bead is slightly flattened lengthways and there is an indentation on one side. Dimensions: It measures 12mm in length and 5mm at its widest, and weighs 1.9g. Discussion: This…
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burmington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-742D06
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of gold filigree from an unidentified object. It has a flat gold sheet backplate, torn along every edge, with a design of one or two incomplete intertwining Style II animals. The bodies of the animal(s) are made from made from 'carpets' of parallel twisted unbeaded wires, set in groups of 6, 7 or 8, generally in pairs to make three or four imitation plaits. There are also some larger-diameter beaded wires, perhaps representing interlacing limbs, and two raised undecorated pear-shaped elements which must represent hips or shoulders. Because the object is incomplete, it is …
Created on: Monday 19th September 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 18th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tuxford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-D3A974
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Early Saxon gold and glass oval pendant. Very thin gold sheet back-plate, now with slight damage. The setting is formed from plain gold sheet with a single beaded wire collar where it joins the back-plate. A separate ribbed gold sheet suspension loop has a loop of beaded wire around the base, the ends of which are tucked inside the loop, hiding the join to the back-plate. The glass is Roman mosaic glass with pink and white forming curved vertical lines, overlaid with green curved transverse lines and yellow and black lines forming a lattice overall. A similar mid 7th century example w…
Created on: Thursday 18th August 2011
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'King's Lynn Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-4163E5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold tongue-shaped front or back plate from a strap-end, buckle plate, or other similar object. There are two empty rivet holes at the attachment edge and a single empty rivet hole at the blunt point. The edges are slightly raised on one face, but there are no other traces of decoration. The edges are slightly convex, one more so than the other. This object is similar in shape to early Anglo-Saxon strap-ends (e.g. those from graves 393 and 397 at Morning Thorpe cemetery; Green, Rogerson and White 1987, vol. 2, p. 347, fig.444, G and p. 352, fig.449, M), though these are not…
Created on: Saturday 29th January 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Ruston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-E9BEA3
Object type: JEWELLERY FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Detached circular gold and garnet setting. The object has a gold backplate to which is soldered three concentric beaded wires; the outer and inner are very finely beaded and the central wire has larger beads. This is a common arrangement for Anglo-Saxon filigree. Within the innermost beaded ring is a plain collar which rises up the sides and slightly over the top of a circular garnet. This is dirty, and although the flash of the flat top of the garnet can be seen, it is impossible to see if there is a foil beneath. The backplate is featureless apart from a central roughly circular rec…
Created on: Tuesday 25th January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 11th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Warwickshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-141C31
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Luton
Workflow stage: Published
Gold hemisphere set on a back plate and edged with beaded gold wire, diameter 14.5mm, ht. 10.4mm; total weight with detached loop 3.54g. The sides of the dome are divided by beaded wire into four fields below two rings of beaded wire framing a tall plain collar on the top. The collar holds a damaged piece of dark blue glass. Each of the side panels carries a curl of beaded wire, some ending in triple gold granules and granules are tucked into the corners of the design. A small hole near the base shows a void, indicating this is not solid gold but has or had an inert core such as sulphu…
Created on: Monday 17th May 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Luton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-A78288
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An Anglo-Saxon, gold and garnet setting, originally round but now squashed. The inlays, presumably garnets and perhaps shell, are now all gone and it is impossible to discern the original shape of the cells. It seems that the layout comprised of a central cell surrounded by other cloisons. A four-stranded frame surrounds this arrangement: The plain cell border is set inside a fine beaded wire; this is followed by a broader ring of twisted wire and another edging of fine beaded wire. The back-plate is round and plain. In its centre there is a hole with torn edges. This hol…
Created on: Wednesday 26th March 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haslingfield', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-2BBB65
Object type: WIRE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Published
Small length of gold filigree wire, bent into a U-shape, of the type used to decorate jewellery dating to between the 7th and 9th centuries AD. Dimensions: Length end to end: 15mm; weight: 0.05g.
Created on: Monday 14th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llanbedrgoch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-2B7876
Object type: PLAQUE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
The object consists of one end of a rectangular strip of filigree-decorated gold sheet. It has a border formed by a false herringbone plait of two plain, twisted wires in-between two finely milled wires. The border encloses two lengthwise rows of back-to-back S-scrolls (only two scrolls on each side now surviving) separated by a single median wire, all finely milled. Fixed to a short gold shank soldered to the back of the sheet is a small, lozenge-shaped foil. The fragment is probably part of a plaque inserted into the front of a rectangular belt- or buckle-plate with a raised rim, suc…
Created on: Monday 14th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alkborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-2B1E44
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Worn biconical spacer bead from a necklace, made from a single coiled length of beaded wire, the ends tapering and left unbeaded. This singleton bead belongs to a growing family of necklace components, made in similar style, that came into fashion in the 7th century. It is best compared to the spacer beads on the necklace from Desborough, Northamptonshire (L Webster and J Backhouse, The Making of England, Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture, AD 600-900 (London, 1991), cat. no.13), which dates from the second half of the 7th century. The Desborough necklace is strung with a small, centrally …
Created on: Monday 14th July 2003
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rowington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-276915
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an ornamental panel from the lower end of a small triangular buckle plate. The gold foil sheet is torn and slightly crumpled and carries the remains of interlacing elements, probably stylised zoomorphs, in fine beaded wire between beaded wire borders. The triple banded design of the zoomorphs is executed typically using wire of two weights B a thicker central wire flanked on either side by thinner wire. The filigree wire is soldered to a thin gold sheet worked in repousse with the underlying pattern. Triangular buckles come into use in the last quarter of the 6th century,…
Created on: Monday 14th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kelvedon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-266454
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Triangular gold pendant with a facetted garnet inlay, the setting with a beaded border within simple margins. At the top, the scars and soldering points of a lost loop. The singleton Bidford on Avon pendant belongs to a growing family of necklace components, all made in similar style, that came into fashion in the 7th century. It can be compared, for example, to cabochon garnet pendants on the necklace from Desborough, Northamptonshire (L Webster and J Backhouse, The Making of England. Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture, AD 600-900 (London, 1991), p. 28, cat. no.13). This necklace date…
Created on: Monday 14th July 2003
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bidford on Avon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-D6EBE3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger ring with large oval bezel plate made from a hoop of circular section which has a lapped joint at the back. The large plate carries a border of beaded gold wire and at the centre has a plain circular collar for a setting (now empty, internal diameter 8mm). The outside of this collar is decorated by two bands of beaded wire, the upper one of finer wire. Springing from the shoulders is a roughly symmetrical pattern of loose scrolls made from ribbons of flattened beaded wire on edge and ending in small granules of gold. Small curls of beaded wire with granules lie above and b…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 30th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rotherby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-D681D8
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold Finger-ring with gold cloisonne enamel bezel, filigree and granules. The hoop is a flat band of metal which expands to form a back-plate for the bezel and for the decoration at the shoulder. There is marked median line on the band as though it had been forged by folding in the edges of a strip. Although slightly damaged the ring appears to be D-shaped in plan and on each shoulder carries a deep strip of gold defining a triangular field filled with large granules of gold, several of which are missing. This ornament is finished by further granules at the outer ends of the strips. It…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: PAS-D63214
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
The ring has a flat, tapered hoop with a plain bezel area set with two small cabochon stones. The shoulders feature ribbed patterning including two rows of small raised beads. The workmanship is fairly perfunctory; the external grooves and ridges can be seen on the interior of the band. The surface is extensively scratched and damaged. The garnets are of a purplish hue, unlike the garnets normally seen in classical jewellery. Dimensions and metal content: Internal diameter: 15mm; width of hoop at bezel: 11mm; weight: 4.8g. X-ray fluorescence analysis conducted at the British Museum …
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-D5D967
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold disc, originally flat, and with an empty rectangular collared setting at its centre, surrounded by four small subsidiary collared settings, each of which contains a round semi-opaque greyish glass cabochon, perhaps intended to imitate pearls. Each collared setting is encircled with beaded wire, as is the outer edge of the disc. From the corners of the central setting, four radiating strips of flattened beaded wire, set edge-on, divide the disc into four segments; within each segment, the glass cabochons are flanked by stylized foliate plant sprays executed in the same edge-on bea…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Holberrow Green', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-D41548
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold setting from the centre of a plated disc brooch or composite brooch. The setting, which is heavily worn and damaged, consists of a crumpled set of cell walls, within a circular frame. The frame is encircled by a collar made up of two strands of beaded filigree wire flanking a flattened Z-twisted beaded filigree rope. The central field, now empty of its settings, contains the remains of a single cruciform cell with short dividing walls radiating from it to the circular retaining wall. Discussion: Although the setting is badly damaged, the elements of its design can be reconst…
Created on: Thursday 10th July 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bidford on Avon', grid reference and parish protected.