Record ID: ESS-ADA231
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy and enamel cloisonné disc brooch dating to the later Early Medieval period, c. AD 900 - 1100). The brooch consists of a flat backplate with seven evenly spaced circular shaped knops around the circumference. The upper surface of the knops shows that there is a circular depression in the centre of each, which would contain enamel setting, though none remains. The face of the brooch is formed from a raised circular circumferential flange which is inlaid with cloisonné decoration formed of glass and enamel. The cloisonné design is formed of seven semi-circles of dark b…
Created on: Monday 20th August 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 20th November 2018
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Record ID: IOW-923FB8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy disc brooch (c. 400-c. 600). Some of the plate and most of the pin are missing. The plate was originally circular in plan. At the front there is a large ring-and-dot motif at the centre and at least three ring-and-dot motifs around. The dot at the centre is pierced through the plate. Close to the edge is a pair of circumferential grooves. The remains of an iron pin is heavily corroded and attached to the plate. The curled-over part of the catch-plate that secured the pin-tip is missing. This brooch is dull green and corr…
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 10th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-3D208B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy disc brooch (c. 450-550 AD). Description: The brooch is flat and circular with heavily abraded edges. On the front there is a large incised ring-and-dot motif at the centre, made up of three concentric circles with a central indentation. The rear face has a standard single pin lug and catchplate arrangment. Both the pin lug and the catchplate are heavily worn and incomplete, with the lug having broken across the piercing. The pin itself does not survive, save for iron corrosion around the loop. The brooch has a mottled dull gr…
Created on: Friday 15th June 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BUC-FF6074
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy early medieval disc brooch, dating from c. 5th to 6th century AD. The brooch is flat and circular, with a border of small punched ring-and-dot motifs running round the edge of the disc. Many of these motifs are now worn on the very edge, so that they appear crescentic. There is also a central circular dot. The reverse is not decorated. There is the remains of the sub-circular pin lug on one edge, with orange iron staining surrounding this, suggesting the pin was iron. On the opposite edge is the trapezoidal catchplate, now folded over so the end touches t…
Created on: Thursday 31st May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
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Record ID: SF-6F1ACD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) disc brooch, dating to c. AD 450-550. The brooch has a front decorated with a central circular perforation, at least two blind-drilled dots (at 2 o'clock and 6 o'clock) and a pair of closely-spaced fine concentric grooves encircling them, about halfway between the centre and the edge. The reverse of the brooch still has a semi-circular pin lug surviving, set at right angles to the edge of the brooch and with a central circular hole now blocked with iron corrosion. The catchplate is missing, along with about a third of the brooch.…
Created on: Monday 30th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eyke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-91234D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Fragment from an early Anglo-Saxon gilded silver disc brooch. The fragment is asymmetrical in shape, with breaks on all edges. The front has a cast relief geometric pattern with part of a double-strand circular collar for a missing glass or gem setting; to one side of this is a double-strand triangle, and there are other ridges whose shapes cannot now be reconstructed. Dimensions: Length 14.1mm, maximum width 10mm, minimum width 2.8mm, thickness 2.1mm, weight 0.8g. Discussion: The fragment refits with (or joins to) Fragment B of NM…
Created on: Wednesday 14th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 26th June 2023
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Record ID: BUC-1541AE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An almost-complete copper alloy early medieval disc brooch, dating from the 5th to 6th century AD. The brooch is an irregular circular shape, with worn breaks and notches around the edge of the disc. In the centre is a punched ring-and-dot motif, surrounded by a second fainter incised ring. Placed at regular intervals around the centre of the brooch are six further ring-and-dot motifs. Running along the edge of the disc is a repeated border of a triangle stamp, each triangle with the apex inwards; above each triangle is a small stamped annulet. The triangles have a textured surface, p…
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
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Record ID: NMS-129C4C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy early Saxon great square headed brooch. No edges are original but the central raised disc suggests this is probably a fragment of a bow, incorporating a central disc decoration from a Hines Group XV. (Ref. Hines, J., 1997 A New Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Great Square-Headed Brooches Woodbridge : The Boydell Press, plate 46(b)) brooch. Significant gilding survives on the front surface. Extant length 16.8mm, width 16mm.
Created on: Thursday 8th March 2018
Last updated: Saturday 9th September 2023
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Record ID: SF-E14483
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy disc brooch of probable Anglo-Saxon attribution dating to the Early Medieval period, c. 450-550 AD. Part of the body and the pin are now missing in old damage, though otherwise it is preserved intact. It is flat and was originally circular, its outer face decorated with a border of stamped ring-and-dot motifs; towards one edge, the surrounding rings have worn away. Other dot punchmarks, possibly originally ring-and-dot motifs, are also stamped across the middle of the brooch in a roughly cruciform pattern. On the rear face of the object, the catchpla…
Created on: Thursday 4th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Walsham-le-Willows', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-A5BC32
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy disc brooch, flat and originally circular. The front has a punched ring-and-dot motif at the centre, now very worn, surrounded by four similar motifs; a fifth might have been in the missing fragment. The reverse has a single pin lug with iron corrosion. The brooch has less than a quarter missing. Diameter: 33.58 mm. Thickness: 2.20 mm. Weight: 6.02 g. See similar examples in MacGregor and Bolick 1993, 63-65, in particular no. 4.43. It dates to the late 5th or earrly 6th century.
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rendlesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3BB23D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) disc brooch. Only a small section of the disc-shaped plate survives. A single incised ring-and-dot decorates its outer face. There are traces of a white metal coating on the outer surface. To one side of the reverse there is a small, complete catch-plate with iron corrosion covering its inner surface. Length: 23.48mm, width: 14.39mm, thickness: 1.46mm, thickness incl. lug: 5.20mm, weight: 2.08g. MacGregor and Bolick (1993, 57) suggest a general 5th- to 6th-century date range for the style. This style is less common …
Created on: Friday 15th December 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Woodbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-B2F382
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast gilded silver 'keystone' disc brooch dating to the early medieval period. Description: Roughly two thirds of the brooch remain, with most of the rim and the lower section of the brooch now missing. The brooch has four integrally-cast cells, comprising three rectangular cells spaced evenly around a central circular cell. The lower two cells are empty, with the break across the lower section of the brooch encompassing the lower part of the two cells. The remaining perimeter cell and central circular cell retain polished garnet inlays. The central garnet is severel…
Created on: Thursday 2nd November 2017
Last updated: Friday 4th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nonington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-89F687
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy fragment originating from a disc brooch of Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date, c. 450-600 AD. The brooch originally would have been circular in plan and slightly plano-convex in section, demonstrating an integrally cast pin-lug and catchplate on its rear face. However, as a result of post-depositional damage and possibly partial melting, only around half the original object is represented and the features on the rear of the brooch are almost totally obscured. The front of the brooch has been decorated with punched ring-dot motifs, consisting of one centr…
Created on: Tuesday 31st October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lidgate', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-722235
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval disc brooch: The copper alloy brooch is incomplete with all edges being abraded and is now oval, but was circular. The outer face being decorated with a series of low-relief ring and dot designs. The reverse of the brooch has two lugs forming an intermittent line. One lug is larger forming the catchplate which is incomplete. The other is smaller, and is incomplete and has a broken perforation, this would have formed the hinge. The surface of the brooch has an incomplete green patina otherwise it is heavily abraded. The brooch is 34.83mm long, 26mm wide, 6.89mm thi…
Created on: Monday 30th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 10th October 2018
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Record ID: YORYM-7F1A27
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy great square-headed brooch of Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date, c.AD 530 - 570. The brooch is decorated in relief Style I and fits into Hines Group XXII. Only a small portion of the head and foot plate remain to the upper and lower aspects of an arched bow. The remaining portion of the headplate is flat and sub-rectangular. It is decorated on the front surface with a raised rounded knop to the centre of the upper edge. Beneath this is a concentric rectangular border consisting of two raised ridges increasing in size on three sides above the arched bow…
Created on: Tuesday 12th September 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
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Record ID: NLM-414ACB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead disc brooch. Cast plate with five moulded bosses on its display face, each bordered by a low gutter, and probably forming part of a cross arrangement, possibly with the peripheral bosses in the angles of the cross. An outer border appears, possibly billeted. A thick folded lug on the back is probably a catch plate though there is no sign of a distinct pin seat; it at all events related to fastening. Patinated and lightly bent. This appears to be a later brooch, with a border possibly recalling Borre style ornamentation, and is an example of the cheaper brooches worn by the l…
Created on: Wednesday 16th August 2017
Last updated: Monday 4th April 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B402BB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Two non-joining fragments from a cast gilded silver keystone disc brooch dating to the early medieval period. Fragment A (uppermost in photograph) comprises part of the edge of the brooch, with one finished edge and three broken edges. One edge (right-hand side as photographed) has a curved feature with a raised collar, representing the remains of a broken setting for a gemstone or glass inlay. The upper surface is decorated with chip-carved geometric shapes, with some trace of gilding surviving. The back is plain and retains the stub of the pin lug. Fragment B (lowermos…
Created on: Friday 28th July 2017
Last updated: Monday 26th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Diss', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-F3154D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Stockport
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and possible mis-cast copper alloy disc brooch. The brooch can be classified as Weetch's Type 5, with concentric circles, which she dates to the 10th century (2013, vol 1, 78). Originally the brooch would have been circular, with a slightlyconvex front decorated with a series of cast designs; at the centre of the brooch is a large raised boss with a central pellet, surrounding this is a circle formed from small pellets enclosed by a raised rib / ring. The outer edge is decorated with small raised bosses which are encircled (ring-and-dot). Between each of these is a sm…
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 29th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marple', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-A6943E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early Anglo-Saxon copper alloy brooch, probably an unusual variant of an applied saucer brooch (also known simply as an "applied brooch") or a hybrid between cast and applied types. The brooch is circular, concave, and has the remains of silver or tin coating in patches on both the concave front and the convex reverse . No decoration is visible. Noticeable pitting, corrosion and slight colour changes form a narrow band (4-5mm wide) around the edge of the front, just inside the rim. The reverse contains a single damaged lug for the pin, broken through a hole. This lug is set in l…
Created on: Wednesday 21st June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alford area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-DE1D40
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy disc brooch (c. 400-c. 600). Most of the pin-lug, part of the edge, part of the catch-plate and the pin are missing. The plate is circular in plan. At the front there is a large ring-and-dot motif at the centre. The dot is in the form of a circular pit. There are two circumferential grooves close to the edge. The rear face has a pin-lug and catch-plate. The pin-lug is in the form of a stub only and the curled-over part of the catch-plate that secured the pin-tip is missing. This brooch has slight corrosion and a dull …
Created on: Tuesday 30th May 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 9th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.