Record ID: NARC-09F5D2
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Bulla pendant made from a single piece of gold. Both faces are circular and slightly domed, with narrow flat flanges around the edges which are tightly pressed, perhaps soldered, together. They are linked by a strip 3.1mm wide which was bent round to form a suspension loop; this loop is identically decorated on both faces. It is clear that the decoration of the loop was done before cutting out the metal, as in the centre (at the top) there are four ridges and three grooves, but towards the base of the loop, as the metal flares slightly, there are six or even seven grooves…
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2013
Last updated: Monday 12th May 2014
Spatial data recorded.

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: 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: 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
Spatial data recorded.

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: 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.

Record ID: LIN-7A7C04
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Early Anglo-Saxon gold disc pendant decorated with applied filigree beading. It is circular, flat, and decorated with a very worn beaded-wire border around the edge. Just off centre is a damaged setting for a gem consisting of an upright gold strip collar, perhaps originally lozengiform or cross-shaped, and now with rounded corners and slightly incurved sides. The gem is missing. Four radiating arms project from the central setting, each made up of two very worn beaded wires (now 0.4mm in diameter) enclosing S-shaped beaded-wire motifs, all but one motif (the upper m…
Created on: Monday 4th November 2013
Last updated: Thursday 22nd October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Skegness area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-379F45
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold bulla pendant made from a single piece of gold sheet cut into two discs with a connecting strip 5.6mm wide. Each disc has been given a domed centre and a narrow flat border, and the strip has been bent to form a double-sided pendant with suspension loop. The borders of the two halves have been pressed and perhaps soldered together but there is no further decoration added to the edge. The strip forming the suspension loop has been decorated with eight grooves running from disc to disc. A groove separates each disc from the suspension loop, but the grooves all cut acro…
Created on: Monday 25th November 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 10th June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Uttlesford District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-1E0E5D
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete gold bead pendant now squashed and distorted. The bead was originally spherical and is hollow; it has a gold rivet through its centre which terminates in a circular loop at the upper end, from which it could have been suspended. The upper edge of the bead has a single band of beaded gold wire applied. Dimensions: 3.20g in weight, 18.87mm in length, 13.17mm in width and 6.23mm in thickness. The suspension loop is 7.93mm external width and 6.59mm in external height, and 5.04mm in internal width and 4.51mm in internal height. Discussion: No published paralle…
Created on: Friday 6th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 2nd September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-05E330
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) gold and glass pendant (600-700). Treasure case no. 2014 T586. The pendant, which has been repaired, is sub-rectangular in plan with rounded corners. It has an upstanding rim or collar made from a flat strip; a small portion of the rim is missing at the bottom. The join between the rim and the separate back-plate is covered by a frame of thick beaded wire between two narrower plain wires. The back-plate is flat but slightly warped. At the top of the back-plate a soldered tab with a pair of vertical grooves and a horizontal break is the remains of an …
Created on: Friday 29th August 2014
Last updated: Thursday 25th February 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DENO-E601A3
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Period: Early Medieval Date of Discovery: Early June 2015 Circumstances of discovery: Whilst metal detecting Description: An incomplete early medieval gold pendant. The pendant is lunate in shape with terminals curved into a spiral. These terminals are now twisted and distorted, one forwards and one backwards. Originally the spiral terminals would have curled inwards underneath the pendant. The left-hand terminal (as viewed) has a tiny protrusion of gold sheet on the bottom, decorated with a filigree figure-of-eight motif. This feature is missing from the right-hand terminal,…
Created on: Tuesday 21st July 2015
Last updated: Thursday 23rd November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kelham Hills', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-743E5E
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete early Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet pendant. The pendant is sub-triangular in shape and comprises a domed, purple-red garnet set within a collet of gold strip and a collar of gold fine beaded wire. A minute gap in the collet is visible at the apex of the pendant where the ends of the strip meet. The reverse of the pendant is plain with several scratches and gouges. The suspension loop is now lost, with the scantest remains of it comprising a slight extension of the base-plate beyond the top of the pendant, and a minute speck of gold on the back of the pendant close to t…
Created on: Friday 20th February 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Aston, Cote, Shifford and Chimney', grid reference and parish protected.

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.