Record ID: NMS-BA0D2D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment of gold sheet, probably of the Anglo-Saxon period. The bend is almost at right angles. To one side of the angle, one face is decorated; a triplet of straight grooved lines, the central one minimally wider, starts close to a finished straight edge and runs to a break. The lines are flanked on either side by a scatter of punched annulets (about 1mm in diameter), part-annulets and large dots. On the other side of the angle, the sheet is undecorated, although it has bends which may have formed a loose corrugation. It has a short length of original edge which mee…
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-A7A571
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval Merovingian gold tremissis of the 'mint-and-moneyer'/'national' series dating to c.580-670, mint: possibly Aoivis (Gif, Île-de-France); moneyer: uncertain ([  ]VDOFRIDVS?]. Refs: cf. de Belfort 1892 no.232; Prou 1892 no. 850 for mint. The coin is of uncertain mint place or moneyer. The coins obverse appear to read AOIVIS VICO FIT[  ] (OI ligated?) paralleled by de Belfort 232 and Prou 850 both reading AOIVIS FIT. The moneyer's name is partially struck off the flan making its reading difficult with the first five lett…
Created on: Thursday 27th April 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th May 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-6E1AB2
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete gold sheet metal biconical bead with gold wire filigree decoration of early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) date. The two sections of the bead are each made from sheet metal rolled into truncated cones leaving a hole in the centre of their apex. One of these holes is encircled by applied beaded wire, but this is missing on the other. The two sections are joined together at their bases, the join then covered by two strips of beaded wire encircling this point. The outer face of each section is decorated with strips of beaded wire bent into three elongated triangles p…
Created on: Friday 31st March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Drinkstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-2E1CD2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete gold finger ring of early medieval date (c.550-650). Description: The ring is composed of a wide, flat sheet metal band which tapers slightly at the back. The bezel is an extension of the band, implied by its width, in relation to the tapering back, and applied decoration. The bezel is decorated with a central bird-in-flight motif, constructed from five raised cells, three of which are inlaid with cloisonne settings with garnet overlay, and one a white stone while the other is missing its setting. A central square cell forms the bird's body, while triangula…
Created on: Thursday 16th March 2023
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Harlow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-1DABA5
Object type: ASSEMBLAGE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case 2023 T273. Gold and garnet 7th century Anglo-Saxon assemblage consisting of four pendants and one boss, probably from a brooch. 1. One oval gold pendant set with cabochon-cut gem, probably a garnet. The oval pendant comprises a dark, gently convex oval gem, possibly a garnet, set within a gold frame. The frame is composite, made from a sheet gold backplate with a raised border to which has been attached an upright gold strip, surrounding the gold strip is a gold ridge and a beaded border. The suspension loop is formed out of a reeded strip projection w…
Created on: Wednesday 15th March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Donington on Bain', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-0EB7C3
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  A complete gold coin pendant made using an early-medieval solidus of Chlothar II (AD 584–629) struck in Marseille, dating to the period c.AD 613–29 to which a piece of gold has been soldered to form a loop. The loop made of a rectangular gold tab (c.4.9mm) wide that has five longitudinal ribs. This folds over 190 degrees to form a loop. This is mostly complete but has been squashed slightly causing a crack to appear between two of the ribs. The details of the coin are as follows: Solidus of Chlothar II (584–629), obverse cf. Belfort 2466, reverse…
Created on: Monday 6th February 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Middle Aston CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-E448A6
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2023 T102 Description:  A mostly complete gold pendant with large garnet setting, dating to the Early Medieval period (c.AD 600-700). The object comprises of an oval shaped gold pendant, within which is a large dark coloured stone. The stone is domed and is surrounded be a shallow gold setting that just borders the reverse and outer edge. The edging is decorated with a separately soldered twisted filigree border that is set within a raised rim. The reverse is flat and undecorated. At one end is a separately soldered suspension loop; it is made of sheet gold and is …
Created on: Saturday 4th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 1st August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-E87D3D
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete Early Medieval Anglo-Saxon gold and garnet pyramidal mount, a strap fitting from a scabbard or sword-belt dating c. AD 600-700. The hollow pyramidal mount has a square base with rounded corners, and four main triangular faces terminating in a flat top. Each side is decorated with an almost identical complicated cloisonné design of gold cells set with plate and bar garnets mounted over waffle stamped gold foils. Some of the garnets are missing and some cells contain earth, making it difficult to assess exactly ho…
Created on: Tuesday 18th October 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Stopham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-56A0CE
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gold pierced imitation coin of early-medieval date, probably early 9th century; probably intended as a pendant. Description: A gold disc, struck with a design on both faces. Each face has a beaded border, originally very neatly placed around the edge, but in places now worn to a plain ridge. Within this is an imitation inscription mainly consisting of radial raised strokes, virtually all of which have raised dots at either end.  The centre of the design consists essentially of three horizontal rows of short vertical strokes on the obverse, and five …
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-0A0C55
Object type: SPACER BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete gold Spacer Bead of Early Medieval date (AD 600-700). Ascribed culture, Anglo-Saxon. Description: The object is composed of a sheet of gold, conical in its original form, but now compressed, giving a flattened, sub-rectangular shape. The object is decorated with applied filigree wire. The upper and lower edges have beaded wire collars, the lower edge would have attached to a second, similar, cone to form a complete bi-conical spacer bead. This is missing and there is a short fracture along the right upper and lower edges, due to the compression of the object. …
Created on: Thursday 1st September 2022
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BM-5FCB75
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon hilt fittings: pommel, upper and lower hilt fittings, part of upper guard, part of lower guard Gold sheet, gold filigree wire, cabochon garnets, copper-alloy, lead Early seventh century The pommel is of ‘cocked hat’ form and is made of gold sheet, decorated with filigree wire, over a lead forma.   The two faces of the pommel are filled with zoomorphic interlace in triple strand interlace, made with one broad band of beaded wire flanked by borders of a very fine beaded wire.   Each face is filled with a balanced design of interlacing zoomor…
Created on: Wednesday 24th August 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-49D06E
Object type: AESTEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A gold ‘Aestel’ of Early Medieval date (AD 850-900). Ascribed culture: Anglo-Saxon. The object is composed of a globular/hemispherical body with domed upper surface and flat lower face. On the side of the dome is a projecting cylindrical socket. Both parts of the object are hollow. The upper surface is formed from an embossed sheet of gold, with the lower face consisting of a second, flat, sheet of gold, the two parts soldered together The domed surface and cylinder are extensively decorated with beaded filigree wire and granulated gold pellets. A b…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Gretton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-D0330C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold Anglo-Saxon finger ring, bezel w. 15 x 16mm; hoop w. 4mm; wt. 5.39g. Ring made in two parts from sheet gold: a plain broad band hoop with a longitudinal row of beaded filigree wire, ending in splayed lozenge-shaped terminals soldered behind the bezel. The bezel is a circular disc with a rim of finer beaded wire framing four collared settings of degraded bi-chrome glass beads. The beads appear to be spherical, one rotates slightly, and their gold collars are composite, each sheet collar carries a ring of beaded wire and an upper ring of plain wire.  The bezel is divided into …
Created on: Wednesday 17th August 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd June 2023
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Record ID: WAW-2AE687
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete gold and silver alloy pendant with glass or stone setting and filigree decoration. The object is circular in plan and flat. A suspension loop with two longitudinal lines running down the middle has been soldered onto the upper edge and curves back on itself to attach to the back of the pendant. The edge of the pendant has a raised, twisted gold wire border. The decorative motif on the outer face of the pendant is a filigree cross formed of loosely plaited wire bordered with more tightly plaited wire on either side of each arm. The arms of the cross lead to a …
Created on: Monday 4th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-DA7863
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Medieval pale gold shilling/thrysma, East Anglian, so-called Constantine or Oath-taking type, dating to circa AD 660-670 (N 17). Obverse: diademed bust right holding cross before; Reverse: trophy derivative. Ref: North 1980: 32. The coin is recorded on EMC under 2022.0416
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 11th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-9A7DD8
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Crumpled gold foil pommel cap ornamented with C scrolls executed in beaded filigree wire.  The pommel cap is badly damaged with both ends crushed and distorted and the filigree ornament on one face missing.   The surviving filigree is well made filling the surviving panel with a balanced pattern of graded pairs of loops with spiralled ends enclosing a central motif of an inverted ‘C’ scroll lying back to back with a kidney shaped element executed with two beaded filigree wires.   The panel is enclosed by a border of filigree wire, of a heavier weigh…
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BM-F1D4E7
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold and cloisonné garnet insect pendant with a suspension loop in the form of a biconical spacer bead. The pendant consists of a flaring bifurcated backplate cut with a triangular head which wraps around the back of the suspension bead which is soldered to it. The back-plate supports a single gold strip, soldered flush to its edges, whose ends form a poor butt join beneath the suspension loop. This frames the cloisonné cell-work which is made with thicker strips of gold sheet and laid out in a complex design which can be read …
Created on: Tuesday 7th June 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd June 2023
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Record ID: LIN-BDB0B7
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete early medieval Merovingian gold tremissis, 'mint and moneyer' or 'National Series' broadly dating c.AD580-670 although this coin may date c.620-640, mint unknown but probably Austrasia/Frisia (roughly encompassing parts of NE France, N Germany and the Low Countries), cf. Belfort nos 3016, 3029-32, MEC1, nos 510-11. Refs: Belfort 1892: 380, 383; Grierson and Blackburn 1986: 125, pl. 24. The coin was struck on a small flan with the inscription only partially visible owing to the die being larger than the flan. Diameter: 11.14 mm; Thickness: 1.37 mm; Weight: 1.22g …
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 26th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-927564
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2022 T456. Description:  A complete Early-Medieval gold disc pendant with filigree decoration dating to the period c.AD 600 – 700. The pendant consists of a circular sheet of gold, with a slight bend approximately halfway across. In the centre is a raised circular boss of sheet gold approximately 5.1mm in diameter. The boss is bordered by a collar of three concentric filigree bands comprising a central band of beaded wire flanked by thinner strands of gold wire. Three arms extend at approximately even intervals from the central boss toward the edge of the…
Created on: Monday 9th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 19th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bishop Burton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-FACB24
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A zoomorphic gold appliqué mount in the form of a fish and of early medieval / Anglo Saxon date, (c. late 6th -early 7th century AD). The object, which has been bent over at both ends, is made from sheet gold with applied beaded-wire filigree decoration and is around 2mm thick. The decoration represents the features of the fish, with a spine of five rows of filigree wire which separate two flanking sets of panels containing filigree annulets divided by rounded curved lobes of filigree wire. The fish has a trapezoidal tail, which flares to 13.4mm in width and is&nb…
Created on: Wednesday 20th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 20th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.