Record ID: SUR-C1D5DD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) cast copper alloy disc brooch, 29.2mm in diameter. The face has incised decoration in the form of five dot-in-annulet motifs, one at the centre with four arranged equidistant around it. The reverse has an in-line catchplate and hinge lug, the latter retaining a rusted remnant of an iron spring and pin. Circa 5th-6th century AD.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
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Record ID: NLM-ADDDFF
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy disc brooch. Cast circular flat plate with a broad central ring and dot of diameter 10.4mm surrounded by indistinct concentric grooves and ribs with an outer textured border; comparable though not identical to NLM-ACDBC8. Paired lugs for a pin [lost] and an opposed stub from a catch plate appear on the back which is otherwise plain. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 500-600 Diameter: 24.1mm, Thickness (clear of pin gear): 1.7mm, Weight: 4.41gms
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-ACDBC8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy disc brooch. Cast circular flat plate with an off-centre large ring and dot of diameter 1.8mm with a border of fifteen smaller [diameter 2.5mm] ring and dot at its outer edge. The triangular stub of either a catch plate or pin seat appears on the back. This sort of brooch is infrequently reported in our area, though a Roman version was recently reported from Low Burnham in the Isle of Axholme. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 500-600 Diameter: 25.1mm, Thickness (clear of pin gear): 2.2mm, Weight: 5.54gms
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-C40F16
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Early Saxon Cast Saucer brooch, dating to Early Medieval period (c.AD 430-550). Description: The brooch is sub-circular in plan and broadly rectangular in cross section, forming a disc shape. It is incomplete around the edges, retaining only a very small part of its upturned rim; it is also missing some of its flan.  The front of the brooch is decorated with moulded geometric design formed of a central pellet in ring within a pentagon, from each corner of which a clockwise spiral expands.  An oblique line connects each…
Created on: Friday 15th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NLM-36C3A3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead alloy brooch. Cast disc brooch or pendant. Openwork in each quadrant forms an expanded arm cross at the centre of which is a solid disc with a beaded border surrounding radial linear decoration. Such objects are common on Anglo-Scandinavian sites. Weetch Type 16. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 700-900 Length: 26.2mm, Width: 19.4mm, Thickness: 3.6mm, Weight: 4.79gms
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 14th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-78110A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) disc brooch, 23.7mm in diameter. The face is heavily corroded with a drilled blind hole at the centre. No other decoration is now discernable; any incised or applied decoration originally present has likely been lost to corrosion. The reverse is undecorated and has an in-line catchplate and single hinge lug mounted on a flat ridge across the middle. Circa 5th-6th century.
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 24th October 2023
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Record ID: NARC-E8B91C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Disc Brooch of Early-Medieval date (AD 450-550). Ascribed culture: Anglo-Saxon. The object is composed of two fragments of flat and circular plate, with abraded edges which represent approximately half of its original form. The front of the plate retains no visible decoration. The back of the plate retains a rounded rectangular lug, which terminates in an abraded break. The back of the second fragment retains a short section of a rectangular catchplate. Length: 19.35mm, Width: 23.63mm, Thickness: 2.36mm, Weight: 4.1g Length: 19.85mm, Width: 27.19mm, T…
Created on: Monday 24th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2023
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Record ID: NLM-A2D224
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy plate brooch. Anglo-Saxon disc brooch,  concentric circles, traces of tinning/silvering on front; Weetch Type 4. Source record suggests 6th-century having dismissed slightly later dates. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 850-1100 Diameter: 35.3mm, Thickness: 2.5mm, Weight: 17.53gms
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2023
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Record ID: NARC-DCD840
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete gilt copper-alloy Brooch of Early-Medieval (late Anglo-Saxon) date (AD 750-850). The object is a disc brooch of Weetch type 12. The object is sub ovate due to breaks which have resulting in the loss of the majority of the outer edges and portions of the inner plate. The upper surface is extensively decorated in chip carving within two cells flanking a raised expanding linear ridge.  This formed one arm of a dividing cross, a device often seen on these brooches. The object retains two large, silver, globular-headed rivets, one in the centre…
Created on: Monday 5th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 26th July 2023
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Record ID: BH-B913A5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) gilded copper-alloy annular brooch dating c. AD 600-670. The fragment comprises a curved piece of sheet metal that is rectangular in cross-section. At one end is an uneven and worn transverse break. At the other end the plate narrows to a broken point. The front face has moulded gilded decoration within a border. Dr Kevin Leahy states that the decoration, in Style II, depicts a crouching beast with its head turned back to bite its own body with its ‘paper-clip’ jaws. A parallel for the motif (but not the brooch) is…
Created on: Wednesday 9th November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 19th October 2023
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Record ID: OXON-C0A4A5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy disc brooch dating to the Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) period (c. AD 900 – AD 1000) with concentric circle decoration, of Weetch's Type 5. or 'nummular brooch' type. The plate and attachment lug survive however the catchplate and pin is now missing and its outer circumference is chipped. The brooch is oval in plan with three concentric raised rings radiating out from a central raised area marked by a raised pellet   The recessed area between the rings is decorated with regularly sized and spaced raised pellets:  fif…
Created on: Tuesday 4th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 23rd January 2023
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Record ID: NARC-99C18E
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Disc Brooch of Early Medieval date (AD 700-900). Ascribed culture Anglo Saxon. The front of the object is decorated with a central zoomorphic motif, in relief, composed of a raised backward-looking animal with four legs, each of which terminating in three long claws, and an upward curled tail. The head has a ring-and-pellet eye and an open mouth. The neck of the animal has repeating projecting lines indicating a mane. The central motif is surrounded by a border of incised or cast transverse short lines, forming a beaded border. At the apex of the brooch, …
Created on: Tuesday 20th September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 22nd September 2022
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Record ID: NARC-122B4F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Disc Brooch of Early-Medieval date (AD 450-550) Ascribed culture: Anglo-Saxon. The object is composed of a flat and circular plate, with slightly abraded outer edges. The front of the plate is decorated with a central circular perforation, around which there are three incised concentric circles. The back of the plate retains a rounded rectangular lug, with a central perforation, around which is iron corrosion biproduct. Below the lug is a short recurved rectangular catchplate. The pin is missing.   Diameter: 36.37mm, Thickness: 2.33mm, Weight: 12.7g. T…
Created on: Monday 8th August 2022
Last updated: Friday 12th August 2022
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Record ID: WAW-43E17B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a flat disc brooch dating to the Early Medieval period (c. AD 450-550). The remains of the brooch consist of the partial disc with stamped ring and dot decoration repeating around the edge and a two opposing points beyond the edge into the main body of the brooch. On the reverse is an integral lug to hold the now missing pin. The fragment terminates in a worn break across the brooch face leaving roughly one third. The object has a dark green patina. For a more complete comparable example see PAS record BUC-1541AE or Hattatt (2000: 378) no. 1693.  The overall d…
Created on: Thursday 23rd June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 14th July 2022
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Record ID: BH-9EDD57
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) cast copper-alloy disc brooch dating AD 450-550. The edges of the face are damaged and very worn. The moulded design consists of a large ring enclosing a dot at the centre. This is surrounded by six equally spaced ring and dot motifs. The reverse of the plate is flat and undecorated. On one edge is a rectangular pin setting with slightly raised edges. On the opposite edge is a very worn and thin triangular catch plate. The surfaces of the brooch, as well as the edges, are very worn, with some pitting and abrasion across the piece. The pa…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd March 2022
Last updated: Monday 6th June 2022
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Record ID: WILT-4CAF6B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early Anglo-Saxon (Early Medieval) cast and gilded copper alloy keystone garnet or 'jewelled disc' brooch, dating to c AD 525-600. It is missing its pin and shows only a stub of catchplate and pin attachment on the underside. It bears moulded decoration in relief on its display side. There is a central dot within a concentric cell with raised edge. Four triangular keystone settings, also with raised edges, are arranged around the central feature and extending to the outer edge. They would once have held poor-quality garnets, or red gl…
Created on: Monday 29th November 2021
Last updated: Friday 22nd July 2022
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Record ID: NMGW-3288EE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy bow brooch of Early Medieval date (Early to Mid 5th century AD). The head and pin of the brooch are missing, but the remainder of the brooch is complete and in good condition, including the well-developed catchplate and disc shaped foot terminal. The bow is strongly curved and has an irregular pentagonal section, where the inner surface and sides of the bow are perpendicular to one another while the outer surface has two poorly defined facets. The top of the bow expands to form a roughly square section 4.6mm wide by 5.6mm high. The upper surface of this …
Created on: Monday 5th July 2021
Last updated: Thursday 19th October 2023
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Record ID: LEIC-73A7BF
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy cloisonné enamelled brooch, dating to AD 970 - 1100. Weetch type 20b. The pin, catchplate and much of the outer rim are missing. The front is decorated with a seven point star which is made up of yellow enamel cells for the points; the centre of the star is a circle of blue and red enamel, with a equal-armed cross in dark blue superimposed upon it. The background is dark blue/dark green. The enamel cells are separated by strips of copper alloy, a technique known as cloisonné. The enamel design fills the face of a raised disc. …
Created on: Wednesday 2nd June 2021
Last updated: Friday 4th June 2021
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Record ID: SWYOR-BCFF31
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Early Medieval Cloisonné enamel disc brooch dating from AD 1000-1100. The item is the separate copper alloy Cloisonné disc that would have been mounted on a backplate which is missing. The circular disc is sub divided by a four curved wire scrolls running form the outer edge to meet in the centre, forming four spaces one inside each scroll, filled with dark blue enamel. The two spaces formed where the scrolls are back to back are sub-triangular. One is filled with white enamel, and the other, slightly larger one is filled with turquoise green enamel…
Created on: Friday 12th March 2021
Last updated: Thursday 29th April 2021
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Record ID: NMGW-2EE6FC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval copper alloy circular brooch of disc type and Early Anglo Saxon date, c. mid 5th to mid 6th century date The cast brooch is sub-circular and is near-complete, missing the pin and with some peripheral damage (with a diameter of 37.8mm – 40.1mm, an overall depth of 13.3mm and a weight of 16.4g). The rear of the brooch is near-flat, slightly dished with less finishing at the centre. The missing pin was secured around a single perforated lug (9.9mm high, 8.5mm long and 2.9m thick at its base with a perforation diameter of 3.0mm). The catch-plate has broken at the cat…
Created on: Thursday 28th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 28th January 2021
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