Record ID: KENT-E4B8C1
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Period: 15th or very early 16th century Date of Discovery: August 2010 Description: A gold lozenge-shaped pendant, made of thin gold sheet. On the front lozenge-shaped panel of gold filigree decoration of small knops within cable border, at top and bottom of lozenge two gold collets to hold gems or pearls, now missing. At the centre there is a gold claw setting to hold a larger gem or paste gem stone, now missing. On the back the gold is folded over slightly with some kind of preparation attached to the back of the jewel. Presumably this object had a gold back, now missing …
Created on: Friday 20th August 2010
Last updated: Thursday 1st March 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Selling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-943C14
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
A possible medieval gold hinged book pendant. The two sides of the pendant are rectangular in shape, formed of folded gold sheet which have been stamped with an irregular grid pattern. The two sides of the pendant are attached to a central bar by three coils of gold wire forming a hinge which still functions. At the top of the bar is a multifaceted knop with a hole though the center. Through this hole a gold wire loop is threaded. This loop closes over a suspension loop soldered to the top of the side which would be the front if the pendant were to be opened as a book. When the loop i…
Created on: Monday 18th August 2008
Last updated: Thursday 13th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cliffe and Cliffe woods', 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-F5A964
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
CURATOR'S REPORT Gold Anglo-Saxon pendant. Description of find Round, openwork, gold pendant with damaged attachment loop. The pendant is formed by a coiled length of beaded gold wire which is soldered together. The innermost coil was left plain in two sections, for decorative effect and the outermost ring has separated from the next one at some length. The attachment loop resembles the tubular loops on bracteates, but is torn and squashed. A small, flattened, gold globule is placed where the attachment loop sits on the ?front of the pendant.. The loop is more abraded on the othe…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd April 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 19th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ramsgate', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-D23D23
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Openwork gold pendant, circular and with a cross in the centre. The cross is made from a straight horizontal piece of beaded wire with a shorter vertical piece soldered onto the top and bottom. The beads are slightly flattened to front and back; both faces of the pendant are almost identical. The cross is enclosed within three concentric rings, the inner and outer of beaded wire and the central ring of plain wire. The outer ring is extremely worn and the beading can only be seen on the sides of the pendant. A corrugated loop has been added, decorated with three ridges separated by two…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd March 2010
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wingham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: KENT2652
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Sheet gold disc pendant with beaded wire rim. In the centre is a hollow boss surrounded by a similar beaded wire border from which radiate the four arms of a cross, each composed of two parallel lengths of beaded wire. On three of the arms the wires are broadly equal in circumference; the fourth is formed of one thick and one thin strip. In each of the quadrants of the pendant is a single beaded wire figure-of-eight motif soldered to the disc. Flanking the arm of the cross immediately below the loop are two gold granules. The ribbed suspension loop is rolled under the rim on the front…
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2001
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT MARGATE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: KENT816
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
coin pendant
Created on: Friday 13th November 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT BARHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-963135
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold necklace pendant containing Roman mosaic glass inlay. The pendant's gold frame is carefully shaped to fit around the margins of a setting containing an irregular fragment of Roman mosaic glass. A single collar of beaded wire frames the setting allowing the edges of the gold sheet back-plate to be seen. The pendant has a suspension loop made from swaged sheet. X-ray fluorescence analysis of this pendant indicates a composition of approximately 60% gold, 37% silver.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 8th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Downs', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-965884
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Gold necklace pendant containing Roman mosaic glass inlay. The pendant is oval, with the domed glass inlay snugly set in a simple shell. The pendant is framed with a border of finely beaded wire, which is itself enclosed in an outer border of twisted beaded wire. A suspension loop rises from the outer border and is made of swaged sheet. X-ray fluorescence analysis of this pendant indicates a composition of approximately 54% gold, 43% silver.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd June 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 8th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Downs', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-EF4810
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
The object consists of a Byzantine gold solidus of Maurice Tiberius (582-602), which has been modified into a pendant by the addition of a gold suspension loop. Anglo-Saxon pendants made from re-used imported gold coins are typical of the late sixth and early seventh centuries, especially in Kent. Although the majority of these finds come from graves, stray finds are also recorded, and there is nothing to suggest that this coin comes from a recently disturbed grave, although it is possible that at some point a grave may have accidentally been disturbed in the course of ploughing. The …
Created on: Friday 26th August 2005
Last updated: Friday 23rd August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SELLING', 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.

Record ID: KENT-B8F318
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A slightly worn gold and gemstone pendant of early medieval date, c.6th-7th century in date. Description: The pendant is ovoid and compromises a Roman intaglio set within an early medieval gold frame. The intaglio is a deep orange in colour and is engraved with two helmeted figures standing side-by-side, the figure on the right appearing to wear female dress and the figure on the right in male dress. Both appear to hold spears before them, and there may be an upright shield on the floor between them. The intaglio is set within a composite gold frame, comprising a sheet gold back…
Created on: Friday 14th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ulcombe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-5E6A92
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
An Anglo-Saxon Coin pendant utilising a pseudo imperial solidus of Cross-on-steps type (North No. 28/1, Stewart A.93/92), dating c.AD 640-670. Description: Obverse: Bust right wearing diadem of two rows of large petals and ornamental drapery. Legend: 'ƆNAT[o o]TAVCo' legend starts at 7 o'clock. Reverse: Cross potent on pyramidal pedestal of four steps. Legend: 'hITnP PnTIh' Blundered, Mirrored first h is reversed?. 'oWo' in exergue. Die axis 12 o'clock . The pendant has an incomplete suspension loop at roughly 12 o'clock of typically ribbed form, it is warped…
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 1st March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hoo Penisula', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-8BB2A9
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a gold filigree artefact, probably an early medieval disc pendant dating to the 7th century. Description: The fragment is crushed and distorted, and represents about a third of the original circular plate including a circular central cell and the remains of two smaller circular cells spaced around the edge (further cells are probably lost to the break). Each cell is formed from an upright strip of gold surrounded by a beaded wire collar. A further strand of beaded wire runs around the outer edge of the sheet. The rest of the upper surface is filled with filigree ornam…
Created on: Friday 12th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 30th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Leaveland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-604B63
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small circular gold pendant of seventh-century date, now missing its setting. The pendant has a gold backplate with very rough and ragged edges, to which an upright collar has been soldered. The collar would originally have held the setting in place, and is set at an angle suggesting that the setting was perhaps a cabochon-cut stone. The junction between the collar and the backplate is covered and concealed by a ring of very neatly made beaded gold wire 1.0mm in diameter; the beads are narrow ridges rather than globular spheres. The beaded wire circle is interrupted by …
Created on: Tuesday 6th March 2012
Last updated: Friday 31st May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sturry', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-6E1652
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An early Anglo-Saxon openwork circular gold pendant with a four-spiral swastika-type or tetraskele pattern in the center. The swastika appears to have been stamped from a single piece of gold sheet. It is an equilateral cross with four arms all bent round on themselves anti-clockwise to create spirals. This central design is surrounded by three concentric circles formed by a single beaded wire, now quite worn, spiralling round; this is in turn surrounded by a separate wire, similarly beaded but now extremely worn, creating the outer ring. A corrugated loop with three grooves and four …
Created on: Thursday 11th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 19th June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Manston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-A2CC75
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Description An early Anglo-Saxon gold pendant set with a garnet, now very crumpled. The pendant is a circular disc, 0.4mm thick, with repoussé decoration made by hammering the metal over a patrix die. The design thus created consists of four simple faces, each made from a C-shape forming the brow, curved around a pair of eyes and with a straight nose running between the eyes and joined to the brow above. The faces together form a quatrefoil, and there is a dotted border set all around which is indistinct on the front but more obvious on the reverse - it has not been transferred eff…
Created on: Monday 21st November 2011
Last updated: Thursday 6th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'petham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-C162C6
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gold disc pendant with an openwork cross motif, dating to the late 6th to early 7th centuries. Description:The pendant is constructed from four concentric rings of gold wire, alternating between beaded and plain wire. These form an open ring, in the centre of which has been soldered a cross also made of wire, its surface uneven suggesting damage or extremely worn beading. The cross has been made from a single vertical strand of wire, with two horizontal strands of wire soldered to each side to form the arms of the cross. A suspension loop, made from a rectangular gold s…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Last updated: Friday 27th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-D01456
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gold disc pendant with an openwork cross motif, dating to the late 6th to early 7th centuries. Description: The pendant is constructed from three concentric rings of gold filigree wire, two beaded wires sandwiching a plain band. These form an open ring, in the centre of which has been soldered a cross also made of beaded wire. The lower arm of the cross has come away and was not recovered. A suspension loop, made from a ribbed rectangular strip of gold, has been fixed to the top of the pendant. On one side, the junction between the suspension loop and pendant i…
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 25th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Hythe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-E5C9B7
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A gold early-medieval coin pendant utilising an imitation of a gold Byzantine solidus of Justinian I (527-565), 'VICTORI-A AVCCC H' with officina letter reverse type, angel standing facing, holding jewelled cross and cross on globe; star in right field; *//CONOB. Likely Visigothic copy of Dumbarton Oaks vol. I, p. 67, no. 3g (AD 527-538). Description: The pendant is roughly circular and has a suspension loop with four longitudinal ribs soldered to the upper edge roughly 12 o'clock of the coin's obverse, directly above the emperor's head. The pendant remains in good condition althou…
Created on: Wednesday 12th April 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 29th August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Ashford', grid reference and parish protected.