Record ID: KENT-0163F3
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Round gold pendant (bracteate) with an attachment loop at the top of early Anglo-Saxon date. It is decorated with embossed Style I animal ornament. As it depicts an interlaced animal, this is a type D bracteate. A small, stylised bird is visible towards the left edge of the design. The attachment loop is decorated with three ridges at either end and the bracteate is edged with beaded wire. The proper left-hand side of the bracteate is bent backwards in two places. The attachment loop is slightly bent out of shape as well.
Created on: Tuesday 20th September 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 6th September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTHBOURNE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-6DF693
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold disc pendant, the suspension loop torn away, and with distortion to the right-hand edge. The pendant is framed with twisted beaded wire, and the front is decorated with triple-stranded beaded wire in a symmetrical pattern composed of two highly stylized interlacing animals. The surface of the filigree is very heavily worn. The back is undecorated, except for traces of scrolled decoration in single beaded wire at the top of the pendant, which must originally have framed the edges of the lost suspension loop. The pendant is an unusual type of bracteate, a mainly Scandinavian cl…
Created on: Monday 23rd June 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 1st May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Nicholas At Wade', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-F530F0
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Bracteate consisting of a gold sheet disc with a worn rim of milled wire soldered to the edge and repousse zoomorphic decoration. A suspension loop of ribbed strip is folded round the rim and passes through a rough slot at the top of the disc. The decoration consists of four radiating loops with median grooves and a figure-of-3 motif on the right. The two lower loops end in feet with single claws and the loop at the top is in the form of a reversed C, apparently representing the head, neck and legs of a disintegrated animal design. This is an example of a D-type bracteate, and the dev…
Created on: Monday 10th May 2004
Last updated: Monday 6th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Denton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-945297
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gold bracteate (D Type) of early medieval date (c.475-550). Description:  The object consists of a flat, circular gold sheet which is now folded roughly in half. The disc features repoussé Style I decoration in the form of a devolved beast in profile facing to the left formed by curved blocks with raised edges. The gold disc is surrounded by a beaded gold wire that shows signs of wear. Along the edge of about a quarter of the disc an additional larger gold wire has been attached along the inside of the surrounding wire. It terminates on both sides with a…
Created on: Friday 15th October 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eastchurch', grid reference and parish protected.