Record ID: NCL-62227D
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A gold terminal, probably a composite ‘Ball-Headed’ pin, dating to the early medieval period, c.AD800-1000. The spherical terminal is hollow and attached at the base to a hollow tube, both made from gold sheet. The sphere is decorated with curvilinear filigree designs made from gold beaded wire, whilst a gold strand forms a median band around the sphere dividing it into upper and lower hemispheres. The upper hemisphere has a small perforation at the apex, around which are four scrolls of beaded wire: the scrolls have a gold granule at their centre, spiralli…
Created on: Tuesday 1st June 2021
Last updated: Friday 12th May 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-FA583E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A quarter cut gold coin. The obverse face has no discernable figure or design and the remaining inscription reads IVN. The reverse face has a design of a possible wing and the inscription AUS. Very similar to object IOW-FA517C, a Byzantine-style gold coin.
Created on: Thursday 27th May 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-FA517C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Leovigild coin, c.568-575. A gold coin with Byzantine decoration similar to Justinian I. The obverse face features a figure wearing a crucifix and robes, facing right. The inscription reads D.N. IVSTINI.ANX.SPA VI. A portion of the edge is bent upwards at almost a 90 degree angle. The reverse face features Victory holding a lauralite wreath, facing right. The surrounding inscription reads VICTONIA IAVCVST QVAICOHS. Found close to object IOW-FA6051.
Created on: Thursday 27th May 2021
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-3C8EAE
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A broken fragment of a gold ingot, 9.7mm in length, 10.1mm wide, 4.4mm thick and weighing 3.84g. The fragment has ragged breaks at both ends and a sub rectangular to trapezoidal cross section, with irregular edges characteristic of being hand worked; one edge being bevelled and the other recessed with a concave centre line. The surface is undecorated.
Created on: Tuesday 18th May 2021
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-23546D
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a possible Early Medieval (Viking) gold ‘finger shaped’ ingot, dating to c. AD 870-950. It is a short, heavily marked, slightly bent, solid cylindrical length of gold, which appears to have been hammered. There is small nick at one end, just before the break and an apparently formed blunt end at the other. Dimensions: 14.2mm in length; 8.2mm in width; 6.88g in weight Discussion: The use of cut fragments of gold and silver as bullion in Viking England was relatively common in the period c. AD 870-950. Gold is less common in this context than silver, but …
Created on: Monday 17th May 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as ''Langley Burrell'', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D54304
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval gold Merovingian ‘national series’ tremissis of an anonymous ruler dating AD 584-750. Issued by Madelinus of Dorestad. The coin is recorded on EMC at 2018.0202.
Created on: Thursday 13th May 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-D50210
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval gold Merovingian ‘national series’ tremissis dating to AD 590-670. Obverse: crude head right with long sweeping diadem NOI.O.MO surrounding. Reverse: short cross AODLAMO surrounding. The coin is recorded on EMC at 2018.0193. 
Created on: Thursday 13th May 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3B5DA9
Object type: RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold ring or oval loop, now squashed flat in the centre, but probably originally roughly circular. Each end has a slightly concave exterior, but the rest of the hoop is rectangular in cross-section. The top and bottom faces of the hoop have fine oblique scratches, probably from finishing with a file; the interior also has less tidy longitudinal striations. The exterior has an irregular central line of scattered indentations, probably peck marks, running along either main face; one edge has two cut marks and two possible peck marks, and the oth…
Created on: Thursday 6th May 2021
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-FD6FA9
Object type: SPACER BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete biconical gold spacer bead from an early medieval necklace, made from beaded a single coiled length of beaded wire, the ends tapering to a small hole for threading. Several coils of the bead are broken at one end. Biconical gold wire beads of this form objects were used as spacer beads on high status necklaces during the second half of the seventh century. A particularly fine example of such necklaces is from Desborough, Northamptonshire (British Museum), upon which the beads are strung between cabochon garnet pendants and gold bullae (Webster and Backhouse 1991, pp. 28-…
Created on: Wednesday 21st April 2021
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charndon CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-FC4EF1
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early medieval (7th century) gold pendant set with cabochon-cut gem, probably a garnet. The circular pendant comprises a dark, flat-topped gem, possibly a garnet, set within a gold frame. The frame is composite, made from a sheet gold back-plate to which has been attached an upright gold strip. The suspension loop is formed out of a reeded strip projection with regular ridges, integral to the backplate, the loop is complete and corrugated into four longitudinal grooves and five ridges, which run right along its length down to a pointed …
Created on: Wednesday 21st April 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-E89461
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete early medieval (possibly later Anglo-Saxon) gold finger ring with filigree decoration, probably dating to the 10th century AD. Description The composite finger ring has a lozenge-shaped gold sheet bezel decorated with circular filigree annulets enclosed by a raised beaded border with serrated outer edges. The filigree is not perfect, with an irregular pattern of filigree annulets and some gaps where the filigree has not been well executed. The bezel has a central upright gold strip that once contained a gem or glass inlay which is now …
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2021
Last updated: Monday 26th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Laughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-81FAC8
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold sword pyramid, square-based and low in height. Each of the four sides is inlaid with three cloisonné garnets in two designs, matching on opposing sides. Design 1 has a T-shaped cell at the top which is probably best described as a truncated triangle with a stepped-out base, like an arrow or Christmas tree shape. This is above two symmetrical garnets divided by a vertical cell wall, both garnets therefore L-shaped. The other, Design 2, is more unusual, with the lower left-hand garnet having a stepped boundary with the other two, whi…
Created on: Thursday 15th April 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 10th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-741119
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of an early medieval gold and garnet cloisonné pendant, comprising the suspension loop and part of the upper pendant. The suspension loop is decorated with three vertical bands of cells, consisting of a central band of chevron-shaped cells flanked by rectangular cells. The surviving portion of the pendant itself is roughly trapezoidal in shape with concave sides and a torn, damaged base. It is much crushed and only a few garnets remain. The decoration is too incomplete to identify. All surviving cells are irregularly shaped, and the back of the object, including the su…
Created on: Tuesday 9th March 2021
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shottesbrooke CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-79701A
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: An early medieval gold and garnet stud. It is circular in shape, consisting of a sheet gold back-plate to the outer face of which has been soldered a central framework of three triangular cells, each made from strips of gold sheet positioned vertically, all surrounded by a border of sheet metal followed by two rings of beaded wire. Each of the triangular cells holds in place an in situ triangular polished cabochon garnet. To the reverse there is a damaged u-shaped shank formed from a long, narrow strip of sheet metal. Dimensions: Diameter: 9.51mm, thickness: 4.85mm, weigh…
Created on: Friday 20th November 2020
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-78C948
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description:  A complete gold unofficial copy of a Merovingian tremissis of the moneyer Madelinus, minted in Dorestad between c.630 and c.650. This has been modified via the addition of a copper-alloy rivet to one side. Obv: RESTΛTFIT around tonsured (?) bust right. Rev: NSVN[…](E[retrograde])△VN around a stylised cross on steps. Dimensions: Diameter: 14.09mm, thickness: 1.32, weight: 1.15 Discussion: See Treasure case 2016 T991 for comparison.
Created on: Friday 20th November 2020
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cambridgeshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-4E4CF4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Solihull
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval gold quasi-Imperial Provençal-type tremissis in the name of Justin II (565-78) dating to c. AD 580-615, mint: probably Sisteron (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, France). Ref: Lafaurie 1959: 199-200, no. 7 (see plate XI, no. 7); Grierson and Blackburn 1986: 129-30. The coin is paralleled by a tremissis found in a hoard at Escharen (Netherlands; Lafaurie 1959, no. 7) and attributed to Justin II, the mint signature SE most likely attributable to Sisteron. Grierson and Blackburn (1986, 129-30) argue that the reverse type seen on quasi-Imperial coinage comprising a cross-…
Created on: Wednesday 18th November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 15th December 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-AF81C3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A cut fragment of a Visitgothic imitation of a gold Roman solidus of Valentinian III (AD 425–455), dating to c. AD 439–455 (Reece Period 22). VICTORI-A AVGGG reverse type depicting Emperor standing facing holding long cross and Victory on globe; right foot on human-headed coiled serpent. Mint of Ravenna. Probably as RIC X, p. 454, nos. 3715–8. The annulet above the head and the extended tongues of the letter G on the reverse are indicative of a Visigothic product. Obverse inscription: […]-NIANVS [P…]. Reverse […]GGG. Mintmark [R] V…
Created on: Tuesday 10th November 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cotham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-A8F955
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early Medieval gold pseudo-Imperial tremissis in the name of Justinian I (AD 527-65) imitating Burgundian issues but attributed to the Merovingian Franks and dating c.AD534-65/70. cf. Lafaurie 1983 nos 73-92, esp 83-92; Belfort 5203 (listed there under Justin II). Ref: Lafaurie 1983: 114, 134-5; Belfort 1894: 64. The coin is complete and well struck on an irregular flan. The coin is 13mm in diameter.
Created on: Tuesday 10th November 2020
Last updated: Monday 30th November 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WAW-A8E117
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early Medieval gold Merovingian tremissis of the 'mint-and-moneyer'/National Series dating to c.AD580-670, uncertain mint and moneyer.
Created on: Tuesday 10th November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 14th October 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-BE8DC8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early-medieval gold tremissis of the Merovingian ‘national' or 'mint-and-moneyer' series’ tremissis dating to c.AD 580-670, mint: Metz, moneyer: Ansolaldus (Belfort 2924). ref: de Belfort 1892: p.355. The coin is pierced with a probably drilled hole of diameter 1.6mm at 3 O’clock obverse. Obverse description: Bust diademed and cuirassed right. Obverse inscription: METTIS CIVETATI * Reverse description: plain cross in wreath; V C[reversed] in upper angles; plain initial cross. Reverse inscription: +ANSOALDVS M[O]NET, piercing through O Diameter: …
Created on: Friday 30th October 2020
Last updated: Monday 9th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roxby cum Risby', grid reference and parish protected.