Record ID: YORYM-0CF535
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2020 T668. Description:  A complete gold disc pendant with filigree decoration dating to the Early-Medieval period, c. AD 600 – 700. The pendant is formed of a flat circular sheet of gold with a ribbed suspension loop affixed to one edge. The loop is formed of a sub-rectangular ribbed strip of gold rolled over from the front of the sheet to the reverse. The terminal to the reverse is pointed. The upper surface of the pendant is decorated with a central circular cell formed by an undecorated strip of gold set edge-on to the sheet. The ends of the sheet ove…
Created on: Thursday 3rd September 2020
Last updated: Friday 3rd November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Welwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-0AB9A7
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete early medieval gold strap-end with filigree decoration. The strap-end is composite, consisting of a thicker upper plate (possibly hollow?) with a sheet gold back-plate underneath. It is sub-rectangular in cross-section and has been bent slightly into a shallow curve in profile. The upper third of the strap-end has a split end for attachment of a strap, via two dome-headed gold rivets (approx. 1.8 mm diameter) in situ and flattened against the back-plate. This upper section of the strap-end is square (approx. 8.4 mm long by 8.2 mm wide) with stepped lower corners, creating a …
Created on: Thursday 3rd September 2020
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-E49F9B
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold pendant set with cabochon-cut gem, probably a garnet. The gem is smoothly polished, but is now cracked across its lower right-hand edge. It is placed on a gold backplate and surrounded with a gold strip collar, slightly curved transversely to fit around the stone; this is now cracked in places. The join between backplate and collar is covered with two layers of beaded gold wire filigree, now very worn, especially to either side of the suspension loop. The suspension loop is formed out of a projection integral to the backplate, which is now broken just above the body …
Created on: Tuesday 1st September 2020
Last updated: Friday 4th June 2021
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Record ID: OXON-3ACED8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  A near-complete cast silver-gilt equal-armed brooch of Early Medieval date.The brooch comprises an arched bow linking a wide trapezoidal head and a mirrored wide trapezoidal foot whose narrow edges adjoin the bow. On its back is an incomplete pin mechanism. The head of the brooch is sub-trapezoidal in plan and mostly flat in cross-section. Its upper edge is completely straight while its two tapering edges are slightly irregular, possibly due to the plate bending as it approaches the bow. The foot is slightly narrower than the head (approx. 74.7 mm wide) and original…
Created on: Monday 24th August 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
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Record ID: WMID-3B47A8
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Report for H M Coroner on a find of Potential Treasure Early medieval silver artefact from Cheswardine, Shropshire Treasure Reference Number: 2020 T592 PAS Database Number: WMID-3B47A8 Finder: Date of Discovery: 15 February 2020 Circumstances of Discovery: Found whilst searching with a metal detector Description: An incomplete cast silver artefact dating to the early medieval period. It is in the form of a hollow pyramid with a flat top and a sub-pentagonal base, four edges being roughly straight and one edge being convex. The artefact is muc…
Created on: Wednesday 12th August 2020
Last updated: Thursday 6th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cheswardine', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-801E78
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver object, probably an edge binding from an early Anglo-Saxon scabbard. It consists of a piece of silver sheet curled into an open tube, a shallow U-shape in cross-section. Both ends are broken; the breaks are not particularly worn. Both long edges are straight and there is no reason to think that they are not original. In the centre of each straight edge is a small circular attachment hole c. 1.5mm in diameter; these holes line up neatly with each other. One is empty and the other blocked with a hard grey-white unidentified material. From one side of the holes…
Created on: Monday 3rd August 2020
Last updated: Monday 24th April 2023
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Record ID: GLO-2E6C4F
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval (6th century Anglo-Saxon) incomplete cast copper horse harness mount. At the base of the mount is a semi-circular terminal, this has slightly upturned corners. Emanating centrally form the rear or the semicircle is a tapering neck with curved sides that lead to the highly decorated main body of the mount. At the base of the body is a facemask that is formed from W-shape border that has a pellet eye with double arch above set within both curves of the W. this leads to an large oval panel which has steeply arches sides, a raised rib that runs the length of the centr…
Created on: Thursday 30th July 2020
Last updated: Thursday 15th July 2021
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Record ID: BERK-47C586
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper alloy and gilt saucer brooch dating to AD 450-550. The brooch is circular in form with a turned-up rim or edge. The edge is abraded with some cracks on the exterior. There is a pierced hole close to one edge of the plate. The brooch is decorated with five running spirals around a central ring and dot inside a circular border. Gilding survives on the inside of the saucer edge and within the crevasses of the engraved spiral motif. To the reverse there is one partially broken U-shaped lug, and some white metal residue around the hole where the other lu…
Created on: Tuesday 7th July 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2020
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Record ID: LIN-476E1A
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast, copper-alloy early medieval strap end dating to c.AD 750-1100. Only part of the attachment end survives. It is broadly sub-rectangular in form, originally it would have been tongue-shaped. The attachment element has two pierced circular holes in each corner (c.1.60 mm in diameter), in-between are two larger circular perforations (c. 2.30 mm in diameter) which may have torn and worn down over time. All the holes are positioned in a transverse row. Below this is a raised transverse ridge with triangular motifs separated by an internal longitudinal border. Reddis…
Created on: Thursday 25th June 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 25th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-20E1A3
Object type: CHAIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two early middle Saxon copper alloy links. 1. The clearest example is cast in the form of an oval cross-section flat figure-of-eight with the central cross-moulding giving the appearance of the ends of the loops being butted against an oblique bar. Corroded fragments of iron evident in both loops. Length 18.2mm. Width 7.4mm, weight 1.12g. 2. The second example is heavily encrusted with the remains of iron links passing through the interstices of the figure-of eight body. From the small amount of the body visible beneath the encrustation, the form appears to be similar to 1.…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd June 2020
Last updated: Monday 20th December 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-5F4441
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold object comprising two hollow spheres connected with a loop. Each sphere is around 10.8mm in diameter and 7.7mm in depth and comprises a pair of hemispherical cast gold sections which are soldered together at a medial ridged seam. One of the spheres is partially crushed and split along this seam, revealing a hollow interior. The spheres are joined by a loop composed of two strips of gold ribbon, each with four moulded ridges along its length. These strips are soldered into the medial seams of both spheres at each end and are bent into semicircles to form each half of the central …
Created on: Tuesday 2nd June 2020
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hayling Island', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-526A02
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy buckle of possible Early-Medieval date, c.AD 600 – 900. The buckle is a small narrow oval with a circular section. The pin no longer remains and the frame is undecorated. The metal has a mid-green patina and is worn. The buckle is 14.9mm long, 9.1mm wide, 2.1mm thick and weighs 0,6g. Flynn (2016) describes buckles of this type as mainly characteristic of the 7th century, although some earlier examples may exist; 6th to 7th century is probably a safe date-range. Although these buckles are well known from early Anglo-Saxon furnished graves, …
Created on: Monday 1st June 2020
Last updated: Monday 1st June 2020
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Record ID: LIN-2B2774
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, cast, copper-alloy, gilded buckle plate of the early Anglo-Saxon (early medieval) period, dating to the 5th-6th centuries AD. Semi-circular plate with cut-out for the pin, no backplate, one copper alloy rivet, tapering and with large domed heads (6.6 mm in diameter) and two punched holes (3.12 mm in diameter) which are now missing rivets. The buckle plate is decorated with a linear groove around the perimeter of the plate and loops. Patches of gilding on the front surface. The reverse is undecorated. Length: 39.52 mm; Width: 28.00mm; Thickness: 1.28 mm; Weight…
Created on: Wednesday 6th May 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 1st February 2022
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Record ID: DOR-BFBB18
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete long equal-arm brooch. The pin is missing. The flat arms are of slightly different lengths making the brooch not strictly equal armed. They are both narrow and triangular with a raised area on the front at each apex. The longer arm is decorated with a line of small, pecked dots along the centre as far as the raised apex. The shorter arm is decorated with a double row of pecked dots. The arms are flat and rectangular in cross section apart from the raised areas at each apex which are D-shaped. At the base of each arm, flanking the central arched bow, is a transverse rect…
Created on: Friday 1st May 2020
Last updated: Friday 1st May 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-849919
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy wrist or sleeve clasp of Early-Medieval date, c.AD 450 - 570. Hines Form B13. The sleeve clasp comprises a simple flat rectangular plate with one complete and one partial circular apertures, or sewing holes, in two corners and a thin sheet hook extending to the opposite edge. The plate is flat and undecorated on both sides. The metal has a dark green patina and is worn. The clasp is 45.4mm long, 17.6mm wide, 1mm thick and weighs 4g. Helen Geake comments that the line of solder from a missing bar, suggests this is a Hines Form B13. Hines (1993,…
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 15th December 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-84666D
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy wrist or sleeve clasp of Early-Medieval date, c.AD 450 - 570. Hines Form B18d. The sleeve clasp comprises a flat rectangular plate with worn breaks to all edges. The upper surface of the clasp is decorated with a central double banded vertical raised rib dividing the plate in half. To one side of the rib a series of irregularly spaced punched annulets are present. To the other side of the plate there are three complete and one partial circular apertures, or sewing holes, set within punched annulets. The reverse of the clasp is flat and undecorated.…
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 21st October 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-843FEE
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy wrist or sleeve clasp of Early-Medieval date, c.AD 450 - 570. Hines Form B18c. The sleeve clasp comprises a rectangular plate with one long straight edge and one curvilinear edge. A raised bar is present to the straight edge of the clasp which is decorated on the upper surface with a stamped ring and dot motif in the bottom corner above which is a series of transverse grooves. The upper end is broken and worn. The curvilinear edge is formed of four conjoined circular roundels which attached to the bar by narrowed integral curved necks. The ro…
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 21st October 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-83F90C
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy wrist or sleeve clasp of Early-Medieval date, c.AD 450 - 570. Hines Form B20. The sleeve clasp comprises a sub-rectangular plate with worn breaks to all edges and a slight curved profile. The upper surface is decorated with a column of transverse grooves. Three complete and one partial circular perforations, or sewing holes, are present to the opposite edge of the plate. The reverse is undecorated. The remaining portion of the clasp consists of a rectangular plate with one long straight edge The metal has a mid-green patina and is worn. …
Created on: Tuesday 28th April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 21st October 2020
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Record ID: LIN-301A84
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast, copper-alloy fragment of a possible early Anglo-Saxon girdle hanger, dating to the mid-fifth to sixth centuries. Only the prong end survives. It is flat with a rounded perforated lobe projecting outward, probably representing a Style I beaked head. Below the rounded lobe is a band of raised rectangles and a short shaft which now broken. The reverse is undecorated. Felder Group B2b or B2c, dated 480-560. (Surviving) Length: 14.99 mm; Width: 10.36 mm; Thickness: 1.96 mm; Weight: 1.16g This object was found nearby other brooches (LIN-2F57A5 and …
Created on: Friday 24th April 2020
Last updated: Thursday 25th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carlton Le Moorland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-300977
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast, copper-alloy fragment of a possible early Anglo-Saxon girdle hanger, dating to the mid-fifth to sixth centuries. Only the rectangular shank neck and a small portion of the suspension loop remains. The notches and grooves perhaps imitate a zoomorphic head. Below the broken loop is a single raised segment decorated with a v-shaped notch or groove, c.8.0 mm below this is another double V-shaped groove. Below here is a collar with transverse grooves. A rectangular shank extends from the collar and is decorated with punched circular motifs following the perimeter…
Created on: Friday 24th April 2020
Last updated: Friday 20th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carlton Le Moorland', grid reference and parish protected.