Record ID: YORYM-7640A3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy probable buckle plate of Early-Medieval date, c.AD 450 – 700. The object is formed of a thin, sub-rectangular sheet of copper-alloy. Two rivet holes are present to one edge of the plate though the plate around both is broken and worn. The opposite edge of the sheet is also broken and worn. The upper surface of the sheet is decorated with twenty-two (22) visible remaining ring and dot motifs. The reverse is undecorated. The metal has a dark green patina and survives in fair condition. The plate is 22.8mm long, 19.5mm wide, 0.8mm thick and weighs 1.5g.…
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2022
Last updated: Thursday 15th September 2022
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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
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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
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Record ID: KENT-E1E8D2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy brooch of early medieval date (c. AD 550-600). Description: The brooch is broadly circular in plan and flat in cross-section with four rounded, flat knops set at equal distance around the outer edge of the disc. The brooch is decorated on each quarter with a tripple ring-and-dot in counter-relief creating a quatrelobed effect. The reverse of the brooch has an intact semi-circular pin lug, although the piercing is not visible due to it being covered in dried soil. Most of the catch plate remains, with the curved edge having broken away. The brooch has a …
Created on: Thursday 18th August 2022
Last updated: Friday 26th August 2022
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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: HAMP-A227ED
Object type: HANGING BOWL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy hooked escutcheon from an early Medieval hanging bowl, dating to the 7th century AD and styled in the form of a bird resting with wings folded. The mount has a teardrop shaped convex plate moulded into the form of the two folded wings, with a medial ridge along the centre line between. Each wing has a recessed field, possibly originally enamelled and decorated with small triangles and lozenges of retained metal with holes at their centre. A projecting hook from the top of the plate is moulded in the form of a bird or beast head with concave ridged sides to the snout…
Created on: Monday 15th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Andover', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-A0D5A3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper calloy Early-Medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) cast saucer brooch dating to c.AD 450-570 with basketwork decoration. Only the outer rim of the object is missing The brooch survives as a broadly circular disc with a ragged circumference representing where the angled outer lip of the saucer brooch has broken away. The plate is flat in cross section with  two low flat rectangular tabs projecting from its reverse representing all that remains of the pin attachment hinge and catchplate. The front of the brooch has a chip-carved geometric basket…
Created on: Monday 15th August 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-A83C31
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Piece of decorated copper-alloy sheet, probably part of a buckle plate. It is sub-square, 17.6mm wide and 15.9mm long, and made from sheet just 0.6mm thick; it weighs 0.6g. One face is decorated with about eight ring-and-dot motifs, and there is a circular rivet hole in the best-surviving corner. Roughly in the centre of the opposite side is a rectangular slot 2.2mm wide, which could be a pin slot. It is hard to know if any edge is completely original, but it is currently approximately the right size and shape to be a plate from a small early Anglo-Saxon buckle. Compare, for exam…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A4099C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small oval copper-alloy buckle frame, probably of 7th-century date, complete with pin. The frame measures 17.8mm wide and 9.2mm long, and most of it has a circular or oval cross-section. This is thickest in the centre of the outside edge, where it brings the maximum thickness to 3.3mm. It then tapers smoothly to the top and bottom before stepping down on one face only to a much thinner oval-section bar, just 1.7mm thick. On this bar is a copper-alloy pin, one end wrapped into a tight loop and the other curved to drape neatly over the outside edge. The cross-section of the pin at the l…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A2F957
Object type: CATCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy catch from a box or bag, of 7th-century date. It is now incomplete, but would originally have been symmetrical, with a rounded lobe at either end (one now missing). The surviving rounded end is 6.4mm in diameter and flat, 1.4mm thick, pierced to take a separate copper-alloy rivet which has a large, low-domed head and circular-section shaft (total length of rivet 7.2mm). In between, the rest of the object is T-shaped in section, with a rib down the centre bringing the maximum thickness of the plate to 3.5mm. All three edges (the two sides and the top of the …
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-9412B2
Object type: CHAIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy figure-8 chain link with traces of iron in each link, of 7th-century date. It is apparently cast in one piece, with each half being drop-shaped and joined at the points. The cross-section is rounded, and there is iron staining at either end and, on the reverse, in the centre. Length 20.5mm, width of loops 8.1 and 7.5mm, thickness 3.0mm (without iron corrosion) to 5.1mm (with iron); weight 1.4g. Solid cast chain links in a figure-of-eight shape are known from 7th-century Anglo-Saxon chatelaines and 'workboxes', such as that from Didcot grave 12 (Boyle et al 1995, 2…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: WILT-17362B
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early Early Medieval gold and garnet pendant, dating to c. AD 600-650. Drop-shaped in plan, comprising a dark red cabochon gemstone, probably a re-used Roman garnet (M. Henig, pers. comm.), set within a composite gold frame surrounded by a single strand of beaded wire with a serrated setting. At the top of the pendant is a suspension loop made from a strip of gold sheet decorated with four parallel ridges, bent into a loop and soldered onto the pendant's frame. The find is in fairly good condition, although one of the serrated teeth has been bent backwards, the garnet ha…
Created on: Friday 15th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 1st September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as ''Hullavington CP'', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-083C24
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver and garnet Early Medieval sword mount. An incomplete, cast silver and garnet pyramidal mount, probably from a sword scabbard, dating to the Early Medieval period (late sixth-seventh century). The mount is hollow and pyramid shaped with a square base and four trapezoidal sides. The apex is flat with a cell filled with a red gem, probably a garnet. Each face is decorated with the same motif in shallow relief: … The mount is complete on one side, but most of two sides and the corner of the remaining side is broken. Traces of gilding are retained in the recessed areas.
Created on: Thursday 14th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shottesbrooke CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-C64175
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval gilded copper alloy small radiate-headed brooch dating from the mid sixth century. Description: The brooch has a semi-circular head plate decorated with a chip-carved Salin's Style I zoomorphic design depicting a crouched beast left, possibly a duck or other bird. This is surrounded by a raised border. The head has three rounded knobs, one at the top and one to each side; the knob on the left side has now broken away. The brooch has a shallow arched bow carinated on the front, and concave behind. The central raised ridges of the carinated bow are beaded lin…
Created on: Friday 17th June 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd June 2022
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Record ID: SF-73453B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy bow brooch, probably of early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) date. The head consists of a flattened lozenge-shaped plate with an separate incomplete copper-alloy loop riveted to the outer end of its outer face. To the reverse there is a single lug covered with iron corrosion. Projecting from the lower end of the outer face there is a narrow bow, strongly curved and triangular in cross-section with a beaded ridge running longitudinally down the centre of its outer face. The foot is elongated, tapering towards a small knob at its tip and is partially re…
Created on: Monday 13th June 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd September 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blaxhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-CF354C
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Early Medieval copper-alloy girdle hanger dating to AD 450-550. Broadly L-shaped in plan, the surviving fragment is the lower left corner of the terminal. It is rectangular-sectioned. The front face is decorated with a border of pelleted dots, although is now heavily worn and abraded. The rear face is plain.  Owing to the fragmentary state of the object it is not possible to determine whether the terminal was open or closed and, therefore, a Felder type cannot be assigned. Penn and Brugmann note that girdle hangers were recovered from Ear…
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wantisden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-3697F7
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy sleeve or wrist clasp of the Early Medieval/Anglo Saxon period (AD500-550). The object is sub-rectangular with both sides tapering in slightly. The rear edge is almost flat with the front edge being more uneven with rounded corners and a little corroded leaving a jagged edge. On the rear edge is a sewing hole or perforation at either end. The surface of the clasp is decorated with a linear design forming central diamonds and triangles on each edge within a linear border. The linear design is formed of double lines of punched triangles with a space …
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 4th August 2023
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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: KENT-2602DD
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worm fragment of a copper-alloy probable belt stud of early medieval date (c.450-600). Description: The stud remains as the plate, taking the form of a figure of eight. The reverse of the plate has the remains of the loop of the attachment, which has broken at the base. The object is very worn and so its orignal form is uncertain. The object has a medium green patina. Measurements: length: 15.7mm; width: 9.1mm; thickness: 3.2mm; weight: 1g Duscussion: This type of belt stud tends to be associated with continental buckle types and are particularly comm…
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 31st August 2022
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Record ID: NLM-2E6AEC
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Glass bead. Sub-spherical or barrel-shaped moulded bead of opaque mid-blue glass with a central stringing hole of diameter 5.9mm, with three circular dots of applied white opaque glass, one retaining a central red spot. Chipped, probably in antiquity. The bead is a member of Brugmann’s Regular Dot type of Anglo-Saxon bead (Brugmann, B. 2004, Glass Beads from Early Anglo-Saxon Graves, Oxbow Books, Oxford, fig. 150); the similar Koch 34 type of bead is most commonly reported from East Anglia and Eastern Kent. These beads are ascribed to Phase B of Brugmann’s dating scheme, c.AD555-6…
Created on: Tuesday 29th March 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 29th March 2022
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