Record ID: SUR-883362
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An early medieval disc pendant made from a plain polished sheet of gold with a border of well-made beaded wire (diameter 0.8mm). At the top, this border is interrupted by a separate cylindrical suspension loop 4.6mm wide, made from gold sheet decorated with six grooves. This is cut into a long point on the reverse, where it is soldered on; the grooves respect the tapered shape, indicating that they were made after the strip had been cut to shape. The reverse is not otherwise decorated, but has some scratches. On the front there is a central motif of a cross with taperi…
Created on: Wednesday 12th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2019
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Record ID: WAW-9E1A04
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval bell shaped pendant, flattened. The body of the pendant is made of sheet gold. The ends of the sheet have been soldered together to make a cylindrical/ cone shape that tapers. The seam of this join has been accentuated by the placement of a gold wire that runs from the scalloped base to the end of the pedant body. The border around the circumference of the base is scalloped with a sub triangular protrusion in between each scallop. Within each scallop is a circular perforation (eight in total). Above this, around the circumference one above the other, are the following: a…
Created on: Thursday 12th December 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd July 2015
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Record ID: DOR-173265
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Report to H.M. Coroner Potential Treasure of possible Bronze Age pendant from Charminster, Dorset Treasure case: 2006 T380 Circumstances of discovery Found in September 2004 while using a metal detector; it was 'a few inches deep' in a field of stubble. Description A cigar-shaped strip of gold with sub-square terminals. The two long sides are asymmetric, one being more bowed than the other, but this may be due to a stronger buckle affecting the latter. The strip thins to either terminal, but the long edges have marginal lipping from edge finishing. The perforation is…
Created on: Wednesday 18th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charminster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-842BC5
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold oval shaped pendant with a small lentoid suspension loop on upper edge inlaid with an oval cabochon(?) garnet/glass inlay within a border of notched cloisonné garnets. The pendant is composed of a well polished cabochon garnet/glass, surrounded by a border of small rectangular cloisonné garnets set over waffle patterned gold foil. Each is cut with a single notch and set to form an interlocking frieze; the inner row contains 27 cells and the outer 28. The cellwork is soldered to a thin oval back-plate which is dished beneath the central cabochon. Impressions of the …
Created on: Wednesday 27th October 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 6th April 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Shropshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-B37196
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold coin pendant, now extremely worn. Late Roman solidus of Honorius (AD 393-423), dating to AD 397-402 (Reece Period 21), CONCORDIA AVGG(B), Constantinopolis enthroned facing, Mint of Constantinople. RIC X, p. 240, no. 8. Obverse: D N HONORI - VS P F AVG; Helmeted bust facing, diademed, cuirassed, holding spear in right hand over right shoulder and shield on left arm. Reverse: CONCORDIA AVGG(B); Constnatinopolis enthroned facing, head right, holding sceptre and Victory on globe; her right foot is on prow. Mintmark: -//CONOB RIC X dates this coin to AD 397-402, within the…
Created on: Monday 25th February 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 24th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horncastle Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-D3E540
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure reference 2013 T188: A gold Viking pendant in the form of 'Thor's hammer'. The pendant is in the form of a double-headed hammer with an elongated pentagonal head. The head is rectangular in cross-section. From the centre of the head extends an integral tapering rectangular-sectioned shaft. The terminal of the shaftis narrowed to form a suspension loop. Both faces of the axe are decorated with punched motifs resembling quatrefoils or perhaps miniature axes. All sides of the shaft are also decorated in a similar manner. Similar decoration is seen on a silver Thor's ha…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spilsby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-1B7E81
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
The pendant (1) was discovered during building of a new trackway by Mr. Doyle. Subsequently Bournemouth University undertook a small-scale excavation, which recovered all other items listed (2-4). Recorded by C. A. Hayward Trevarthen (Finds Liaison Officer). Description: A small assemblage probably from an early Anglo-Saxon female grave, comprising: A gold and gemstone-set pendant A pair of incomplete silver crescent-shaped objects An annular blue-glass bead Fragments of a bone comb (1) Gold and garnet pendant A disc-shaped pendant of pale gold sheet, with fili…
Created on: Thursday 12th March 2015
Last updated: Monday 14th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charminster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-5D63D4
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval gold tremissis of Madelinus type imitating the coins minted in Dorestad by the moneyer Madelinus, dating AD 625-675. The coin has been converted into a pendant. Ref: Grierson and Blackburn 1986: nos 493-5; Pol 2010. The obverse depicts a bust in profile, facing right. The inscription reads DRESTATFIT [Made in Dorestad]. The reverse depicts a cross with six pellets beneath. The inscription reads MADELIHVSH. A strip of gold has been attached, folded over the edge of the coin, to form a suspension loop. A narrower strip of gold has been attached running down the cent…
Created on: Friday 15th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 13th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mersea Island', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-71F723
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete gold early medieval bulla pendant. It is formed from a single piece of metal consisting of two domed disks folded against each other and joined with a connecting strip. Each disk has a narrow flat border around the outside edge and the outer face of the strip is decorated with longitudinal grooves. Both disks are damaged with several indentations. Dimensions: Length: 8.5mm, width: 6.4mm, thickness: 2.9mm, weight: 1.36g Discussion: Anglo-Saxon 'bulla' pendants date to the 7th century AD. Most have flat reverse and examples like this one with double domed f…
Created on: Thursday 28th May 2015
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-3DC96C
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval gold pendant set with a red stone, presumably a garnet. The pendant is in the form of a stepped triangle, with three 'steps' on each side and a horizontal base. It has a rectangular cross section with a slightly concave reverse. The pendant is intact but part of the gold frame has been torn and is now bent away from the stone setting. This has exposed a section of embossed gold foil which sits beneath the stone. The suspension loop is fluted and folded to make a loop. The frame is also 'fluted', formed of three linear ridges and two indentations. This fluting is fla…
Created on: Friday 19th June 2015
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rutland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-B3B254
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Thick, bevelled, re-used cabochon garnet, the upper surface ground flat, set in a simple, well-fitting cell which is edged with a single strand of twisted wire rope. The suspension loop, which is made in one with the thin back plate, survives only as a damaged stub of lightly swaged strip. The back plate is deeply concave.
Created on: Monday 24th August 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 7th June 2022
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Record ID: PAS-56385F
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval gold reliquary pendant containing a rock crystal, now cracked. The frame is rectangular, slightly damaged at the base on the reverse side. The backing plate is intact with some scratches. A projecting loop at the top holds the suspension ring. Four further projecting loops survive at each corner, with one remaining gold spangle suspended from the loop at the bottom left. The other spangles do not survive. Five small gold posts project from the frame, two on each side and one at the base. Originally these posts would have held pearls, but these do not survive. Rock crysta…
Created on: Tuesday 1st September 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2018
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Record ID: PAS-5BA841
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
Circumstances of discovery: While gardening. The finder was digging a tree stump and bushes in a garden with a maximum depth of approximately eighteen inches. Description: A gold pendant of unknown date and manufacture. The pendant is rectangular, slightly distorted and has an integral loop. A figure of a knight wearing armour, spearing a dragon. The scene is topped by a gathering of clouds and a series of rays indicating a sunburst. The reverse of the pendant is hollow, showing a recessed cavity which must once have had a now lost plate covering the space. This is confirmed by …
Created on: Tuesday 1st September 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd July 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-70F9A6
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An oval gold pendant set with a cabochon-cut red stone, presumably a garnet. The pendant is formed from a gold back-plate, frame and a suspension loop. The red stone setting is oval in plan, evenly-shaped and with a domed front. It is held within the collar made from an upright strip of gold, fixed to the back-plate (no seam can be seen). Below this, the setting is encircled by a strand of gold beaded wire with plain wire above it. The overlapping ends of these wires can be seen inside the suspension loop. The suspension loop is ribbed or corrugated and is 2.7mm wide. It is made…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-CE48C1
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A circa 2nd to 3rd century AD gold pendant, ovoid, set with a blue-grey glass paste intaglio, very worn, pitted and devitrified. The setting has a central rib and all that remains of the attachment is a single gold filigree loop. The intaglio depicts a robed seated figure facing right, holding a sceptre in his right hand and an uncertain object in the left. The figure may represent Jupiter but is too worn to be certain. A parallel for the intaglio can be found in Henig 2007, no. 10. References Henig, M., 2007. A Corpus of Roman Engraved Gemstones from British Sites: With a New P…
Created on: Tuesday 13th October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 11th July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Grafton Regis area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-8111E8
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Sheet gold element, the sheet joined to form a cylindrical hollow form with projecting lobes, separated by engraved grooves, then twisted. A suspension loop added at one end; the remains of a similar loop at the other. The surface has been carefully tooled and worked and may show keying for enamelled decoration, now missing. The object is made from very high carat gold but is very hard to interpret. The large rather crude loop is unusual for a piece of jewellery but the object was clearly designed to be hung and if there was a second loop at the other end it might have formed a cha…
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 10th August 2017
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Record ID: IARCH-F87515
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Roman sard intaglio set in a gold mount with a loop for suspension. This is a small classical gem of debased style, dating from the third or fourth century A.D. It depicts a seated figure, probably Dea Roma, with helmet, spear, and shield. The stone is one of the sard variety and is enclosed in a gold mount with pearl border and flat gold back, fitted with a broad fluted loop for suspension. This intaglio requires no comment; it is one of many similar objects which have survived from ancient times, and been found by later generations and turned into ornaments. The gold mount ap…
Created on: Tuesday 20th January 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Canterbury (St Martin's Cemetery)', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-65C775
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE: 2013 T466 Description: A gold medieval pendant roundel with a square shaped central bezel set with an amethyst. The pendant frame has been formed from twisted gold wire and has four suspension loops which have been soldered onto the frame. Three of the suspension loops have chain link attachments which would have once held a terminal attachment, possibly a pearl. The bezel is attached by a pin on the reverse to a splayed sun motif which has been soldered onto the inside frame of the pendant. Discussion: The British Museum has two very similar pendants in the colle…
Created on: Wednesday 17th July 2013
Last updated: Friday 13th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horncastle Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-881CD6
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A Byzantine gold solidus adapted into a pendant by way of a gold strip soldered to the top of the coin. The pendant was designed to be worn with the reverse visible as the loop is attached at 12 o'clock on the reverse, 5 o'clock on the obverse, rendering the portraits upside down. Coin: gold solidus of Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine, minted at Constantinople. Obverse Legend: [dd NN] hERAC[LIUS ET hERA CONST PP] AVG. Facing busts of Heraclius with short beard and Heraclius Constantine to right (bust much smaller). Both figures wearing chlamys and elaborate crown with c…
Created on: Tuesday 17th September 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 6th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Matching area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-8EC696
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small gold pendant in the shape of a three-dimensional animal head, decorated with granules and filigree, with one garnet inlay surviving, and a small suspension loop set at the back of the head. The base of the suspension loop is surrounded by a border of beaded wire (c. 0.7mm in diameter) which is flanked by an inner and an outer border of unbeaded wire (c. 0.4mm in diameter). The outer unbeaded wire is often hidden by other elements of the decoration, but both inner wires have gaps between their ends, and the ends are clearly cut, with wedge-shaped ends. The suspens…
Created on: Thursday 24th October 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 10th June 2014
Spatial data recorded.