Record ID: IOW-D7CB55
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Gold Gallic contemporary copy of a Solidus of Anastasius (491-518), possibly of the Pseudo-Merovingian coinage, c. 500-580. Copied from a coin of Constantinople. Found with associated Early Medieval finds from a ploughed cemetery site (Treasure case no. 2007 T203). Note: the BM has 7 imitations of solidi of Anastasius, but none are very similar to this piece. References: Hahn, MIB I, type as no. 4; MEC, plate 17, c. f. nos. 336 & 347-8.
Created on: Sunday 6th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 30th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-9A6C17
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
CORONER'S REPORT Description of Find The ring is substantially gold and consists of a broad, punch-decorated band tapering sharply at each end to wire terminals which were originally twisted together; width, 26 mm. On either side of a very worn, beaded median rib the ring is decorated with two rows of interlocking punched triangles with triple pellets in each. The ring has been distorted while in the ground and the ends are now almost untwisted as a result. Discussion Both the form of the ring and the punched decoration are typical of Viking jewellery of the late 9th-10th …
Created on: Tuesday 15th May 2007
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newark', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-5D45C7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval coin: Roman prototype tremissis minted in Kent in the 650s to 660s. The coin is made of a particularly pale gold. Sutherland, C.H.V. 1948 'Anglo-Saxon Gold Coinage in the Light of the Crondall Hoard' Nos. 32-44.
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2007
Last updated: Sunday 9th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wychavon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-77D046
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An early Anglo-Saxon circular gold setting, now incomplete, distorted and damaged. The outer edge is surrounded by a triple frame: A plain gold strip, now largely squashed, is set inside a very fine beaded wire ring and the outer edge of the object is then framed by twisted beaded wires. The centre of the setting is now empty. The back-plate, now slightly warped, is round and plain. In its centre there is a roughly rectangular slot with torn edges. It will have had to do with the means of attachment of the setting. In addition, there are four small rivet holes around the …
Created on: Monday 6th August 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rushton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-B502C5
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval gold coin; a 7th-century tremissis that was minted at Dorestad in the Netherlands by Rimoaldus in c.600 - 675 AD. The coin has a diameter of 12.7mm and is 1.3mm thick. It weighs 1.3g. For references see Grierson and Blackburn's 'Medieval European Coinage' (vol 1) p.137; and A.N. Zadoks-Josephus Jitta (1961) 'De Eerste Muntslag te Duurstede', Jaarboek voor Munt-en Penningkunde 48, 1-14 (Plate 1, no. 3). This coin is probably the first of this type to have been found in England.
Created on: Thursday 9th August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 12th September 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-C75C64
Object type: AESTEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Published
The find is a gold hollow-cast zoomorphic finial, most probably to be fixed as a terminal to a æstel, or pointer. The head tapers to become a neck, which would have acted as a rimmed socket for a slender rod, secured to the terminal with a rivet through the two holes provided on the neck. The base of the object is flat. The dimensions are: length: 31mm; width: 13mm; thickness: 7mm; weight: 4.12g. The object has been squashed, and there is some damage visible below the left nostril and on the neck. The terminal is in the shape of the head of an animal, with applied ccomma-shaped ea…
Created on: Friday 10th August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 15th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-C9AD15
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold fragment from a larger object. It has a round loop (presumably for attachment), embedded in and forming one end of a rectangular frame which expands and flattens out at the other end, where it is broken off. The remainder of the original object might, for instance, have been round or cross-shaped. The fragment was assembled from several parts, at least the loop, a backing sheet for the rectangular section, another sheet merged with it and the three-dimensional decoration described below. The rectangular part of the object is very ornate and decorated three-dimensionally with …
Created on: Friday 10th August 2007
Last updated: Friday 3rd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-05D4C1
Object type: STUD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold and garnet setting. Report by Sonja Marzinzik of The British Museum. An Anglo-Saxon, round gold and garnet setting, now damaged. The central quatrefoil cell is now empty. It is surrounded by four semi-circular cloisons. Two of them still contain garnets (cracked) and there are garnet splinters in a third cell. The fourth cell has lost its garnet but still contains the wafered gold backing foil. A triple frame surrounds this arrangement: The plain cell border is set inside a very fine beaded wire ring and the outer edge of the object is framed by a twisted bead wire. The plai…
Created on: Monday 13th August 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Farthingston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-458378
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
CURATOR'S REPORT Early Medieval gold and garnet setting. Possibly 7th century. Description of find Fragment of an early medieval, torn and distorted gold setting, still containing some ?garnet cloisonné. In a separate bag, two tiny garnet fragments and a small fragment of wavered gold foil with an upright cell wall. The gold setting appears to have been one end of an originally ?oval (presuming that it was symmetrical) object. It is warped and the wider end of the ?oval tore off at one point, damaging the object severely and leaving a jagged edge behind. On an open, horizontal …
Created on: Thursday 16th August 2007
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chelmsford Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-573DA3
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Anglo-Saxon gold sheet panel. The panel is flat and made from gold sheet in the form of a long, narrow rectangle with three sides sharply cut at right-angles to each other and the fourth torn. Running broadly parallel to the long cut edge are two lengths of beaded wire separated by a running ziz-zag, also made of beaded wire.
Created on: Wednesday 29th August 2007
Last updated: Monday 12th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rockbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-EBBA05
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval roundel which consists of a round gold tray inlaid with cloisonné enamel. The enamelled front is decorated with the right Hand of God, the dextera Dei, descending in a gesture of blessing or divine acknowledgment. The Hand is in opaque white enamel, separated by an opaque yellow cuff from the opaque blue cloud from which it emerges. On either side of the Hand descend two branched elements dividing into three sprigs, each terminating in an opaque yellow disc. The background is of translucent green enamel. The undecorated underside has four larger and two smaller pier…
Created on: Wednesday 5th September 2007
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thames Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NCL-FEC824
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold finger ring of Viking Age date, c. 875-950. The ring consists of a triple coil of thick, lozenge-section wire and the front and sides are decorated all along the ridge with punched back-to-back crescents, and small triangles at the tapering ends. The ends are drawn into thin wires wound vertically round the coil in eight turns at the back of the hoop. One of the ends appears to have been broken while in the ground and minor re-alignment of the windings was undertaken by the finder after the ring had been through the Treasure process for the first time. Surface metal analy…
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Maunby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-00D4F2
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Gold and ?garnet mount Round gold mount, set with a ?garnet and filigree-decorated, with a separately crafted backplate. The central cabochon ?garnet is set inside a plain border which is framed by a beaded wire collar from which four beaded wire arms run to the mount's frame. These arms divide the mount into four sectors, each of which is filled with gold-wire annulets with the join in many cases clearly visible and formed in most cases by two concentric wires. Each annulet has a pierced hole at its centre and the little rings are unevenly spaced. The mount is edged by a triple-stran…
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2007
Last updated: Monday 8th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mid Essex', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-0FB775
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
CURATOR'S REPORT Description of find A square jewel, which is damaged on one corner. It is set with a square, dark-coloured cabochon glass gem set within a multiple frame made up of an upstanding plain rim edged by two rows of beaded wire. The whole is mounted on a square base-plate. Its back is plain but has an elongated metal tab running diagonally from the damaged corner to the mid point. There is a single rivet hole through the back-plate. Surface analysis Gold and silver content of approximately 61-66% amd 30-33% respectively, and confirms the gem as glass. Discussion …
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 10th May 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NCL-A09134
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Redcar and Cleveland
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT 7th-Century Anglo-Saxon Grave Finds (Treasure Annual Report 2007, no. 184). Description of find Gold Pendant Decorated with filigree and granulation, and with four circular settings 4mm in diameter and a central setting of similar proportions. One red garnet survives and two small fragments of others were found in the grave fill. The central setting is missing its garnet. It is surrounded by a ring of eight cells, four larger to top, bottom and sides, alternating with four smaller. Four retain their garnets. Each of the four smaller garnets is flanked on the…
Created on: Monday 8th October 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 8th June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Streethouse Anglo-Saxon cemetery', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-89E427
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT Early Medieval pendant cross. Description of find Cross pendant Gold cross-pendant set with four garnets, damaged, warped and missing one more garnet. The cross arms are of almost equal length and have concave ends, each of which contains a round setting. Two of these still contain small cabochon garnets, one of them contains flat garnet and a fourth, larger stone mounted very crudely at the centre of the cross. The cross arms are filled with filigree wires, while a grooved gold band runs around the sides of the cross. The back of the object is plain and concav…
Created on: Friday 19th October 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 13th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newark Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-C37138
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
CURATOR'S REPORT A gold pendant, incorporating a Visigothic gold tremissis in the name of the Roman Emperor Anastasius I of Byzantium (r.491-518). Description of find The coin has been made into a pendant, showing the Victory reverse, probably in England in the 6th or early 7th century, when coin-jewellery of this type was fashionable. It shows two suspension points, which may have been made at the same time. It appears to have a gold suspension loop, but only a small piece now survives; this is plainer than is usual for the period, being a simple flat bar, soldered to one side…
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2007
Last updated: Friday 23rd August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Worth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-3FBF44
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval gold coin: Thrymsa. Late 6th or early 7th century, c. 550-650.
Created on: Monday 3rd December 2007
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hothfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-260848
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold and enamel mount, now crushed and incomplete. A solid rim supports a sheet-gold dome, which is covered with coloured enamels set in gold cloisons. Blue, green, white, and yellow enamel is preserved and there is one dark-coloured cell, possibly inlaid with a garnet or a piece of red glass. The enamel is arranged in pelta form and the top of the dome is taken up by a circle with an inscribed quatrefoil inside a star. Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the surface indicated a gold composition of 92-96%, and silver content of 3-5%, the remainder being copper. The enamel…
Created on: Friday 12th December 2008
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cholsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: STAFFS-045974
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of sheet gold decorated with filigree scrolls. Dirty
Created on: Tuesday 2nd November 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire', grid reference and parish protected.