Record ID: SWYOR-53E1E5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy brooch, probably a Weetch (2014) Type 2a nummular brooch, of middle to late Early Medieval date (AD 700 - AD 1050). The brooch is more oval in form than circular. Within an outer frame is a classical looking male bust, but the surface is too worn to identify any further details. The back of the brooch is flat. At the top it has two clear projections (pin lugs) from a pin mounting. At the bottom there is at least one projection, probably the remains of the catch-plate. However, there is also a possible scar from a second projection which is now missing sp…
Created on: Monday 17th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2023
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Record ID: WMID-FAD920
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable Early Medieval lead weight with a copper alloy coin inset within.  The object is circular with a flat upper face and flat underside. The underside has a slightly raised circumferential border. Set within the upper face is a copper alloy coin that appears to be a 3rd century nummi. The bust of a male emperor is facing left.  NLM-8F9E07 discovered in Lincolnshire is also a weight with a Roman coin thought to be set within it, this is dated to the Early Medieval period when it is thought the use of weights with insets is considered characteristic of Viking Age activ…
Created on: Wednesday 19th April 2023
Last updated: Monday 24th April 2023
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Record ID: NARC-6AA730
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy skeuomorphic (swastika) plate Brooch of Early Medieval date (AD 450-550). The object is in the form of a swastika (left). The plate is flat and the front face decorated with nine evenly spaced, punched, ring and dot motifs. The back face is undecorated and retains a perforated lug at its upper end, and a rectangular recurved catchplate at the opposing end. Through the lug is a coiled wire pin, with two coins on one side and three on the other. The wire pin projects from the spring and reaches the catchplate. Length: 25.05mm, Width: 26.50mm, Thickness: 1.66mm, …
Created on: Friday 31st March 2023
Last updated: Friday 31st March 2023
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Record ID: BERK-9B2F04
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Two cut pieces of silver bar, consistent with Viking arm-rings of the late 9th and 10th centuries, possibly cut as hack-silver for use in a bullion economy. Item1 is slightly curved in plan and has a trapezoidal cross section. It has been cut both ends. The lower, largest edge has an incised line through the centre of the length, dividing the bar into two fields. The uppermost field has a very precisely drawn six-pointed star formed of three crossed lines. The precision of this symbol suggests a later, possibly modern date for this item, but both the section and the slight curve are c…
Created on: Tuesday 20th September 2022
Last updated: Saturday 6th May 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-7C78D9
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cone shaped lead object, possibly a weight of Early Medieval date, AD 850 - 1066. It is a solid and cone shaped, with a rounded apex and a slightly concave base. There are no markings or decoration. The surface is very smooth and the corners are crisp, whch may suggest a more modern date. Measurements are; length 14.3mm, maximum diameter (base) 19.1mm and weight 24.0g. Compare LVPL-24A1AA. At Torksey (Lincs), the Viking camp/settlement, solid lead pieces were classed as weights. The mass corresponds with the Viking eyrir of 24g, or Viking ounce (ore) of 24 - 26g. (SE Kruse, 1988, &q…
Created on: Monday 1st August 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2022
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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: WMID-6B342E
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible Early Medieval lead weight with a copper alloy coin inset within the flat side of the weight.  The object is broadly conical with a convex top and flat underside. Set within the underside is a copper alloy coin that appears to be a 3rd century nummi. The bust is facing right, although due to wear this is worn.  NLM-8F9E07 discovered in Lincolnshire is also a weight with a Roman coin thought to be set within it, this is dated to the Early Medieval period when it is thought the use of weights with insets is considered characteristic of Viking Age activity. Another …
Created on: Wednesday 23rd February 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 19th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-28FA03
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gilded copper alloy disc brooch, cast from an example incorporating a Roman coin, presumably of gold, set within a beaded mount. The outer face shows a bearded, laureate head to the right with an illegible legend; the personage is Septimius Severus, emperor of Rome from AD193 until 211. The reverse carries a figure of Roma or Minerva standing to the left leaning on a shield and holding a Victoriola. The legend may be VIRT[us] AVGG. An integral frame with a beaded border encircles the cast coin. The rear face carries the remains of a copper alloy catcphplate and pin mechanism together …
Created on: Tuesday 8th February 2022
Last updated: Friday 13th May 2022
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Record ID: BERK-97605A
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A middle/ late early-medieval (Anglo Saxon) copper alloy pendant of sub-circular form and with a projecting perpendicular loop. This object is of similar form to HAMP-568965 and the following is paraphrased from the record and edited wehre relevant to this object. The pendant is presumably related, to the more common nummular brooches of the late 9th century onwards. The body is sub-circular in shape. It is flat and undecorated on the reverse while the front has moulded decoration in the form of a left-facing profile bust with crested helmet within a concentric ring. A further three r…
Created on: Thursday 20th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 17th March 2022
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Record ID: ESS-93F94E
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Coin No Description Dimensions 1 A complete early-medieval 'pale gold' silver early penny (sceat) of the Pre-primary Transitional Phase Series Pa III, Pa 20 dating to c. AD 655-685 (Abramson 206: 65). Obverse description: Bust R, wearing double 'pearl' diadem Obverse inscription: NCA VIIA VC Reverse description: Small cross with large central boss and each arm ending in an annulet, superimposed on a thin saltire, all within a small dotted circle. Reverse inscription: [...] F  FANVS …
Created on: Thursday 20th January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 16th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hatfield Peverel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-3FBD73
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early-medieval lead and copper-alloy weight, dating to the period c. AD 800-1100. Description: The objects consists of a thick rectangular lead block with curved sides. At the centre of the top face is set a small round copper-alloy element. The embedded copper-alloy has been heavily worn and perhaps filed down though may have been a coin originally. The lead has a distinct oxidised patination leaving it an off white-cream colour, the set copper-alloy element has dark green patination. Measurements: 24 mm x 18 mm. 7 mm thick. Weight: 32.9g. Diameter of copper insert 6…
Created on: Thursday 6th May 2021
Last updated: Monday 10th May 2021
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Record ID: NLM-3EABC9
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy probable ingot fragment. A cast billet, hammered flat, probably by one robust blow. This is a member of a seldom-reported – though probably more often encountered - class of pelloidal base metal ingots, typically with a dark or black surface, sometimes in a small bun or an oval-ended form resembling a guinea-pig turd. These presumably fall later than the later Roman use of base metal coins, but might have represented multiple values of these in later periods reliant upon transactions in metal bullion. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 410-1066 Length: 12.1mm, Width: …
Created on: Tuesday 17th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 18th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thoresway', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-AF81C3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A cut fragment of a Visitgothic imitation of a gold Roman solidus of Valentinian III (AD 425–455), dating to c. AD 439–455 (Reece Period 22). VICTORI-A AVGGG reverse type depicting Emperor standing facing holding long cross and Victory on globe; right foot on human-headed coiled serpent. Mint of Ravenna. Probably as RIC X, p. 454, nos. 3715–8. The annulet above the head and the extended tongues of the letter G on the reverse are indicative of a Visigothic product. Obverse inscription: […]-NIANVS [P…]. Reverse […]GGG. Mintmark [R] V…
Created on: Tuesday 10th November 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cotham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-85F619
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An Early-Medieval gold pseudo-imperial solidus, probably struck by the Merovingian Franks in the Lower Rhineland in the name of Anastasius I (AD 491-518), dating to the period c.AD 491-518. Unclear mint. cf. MEC I, no. 343; Belfort 5033-6. Ref: Grierson and Blackburn 1986 (MEC): plate 17 no 343, p.463; Belfort 1894: 14-5. Obverse: D N ΛNΛSTΛ-SIVS P P AVG, Pearl-diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust three-quarter facing to right, holding spear over right shoulder and shield on left arm. Reverse: VICTORI-Λ ΛVCCΓ or VICTORI-Λ ΛVCCC, Victory standing left holding long j…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 11th November 2020
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Record ID: ESS-2A065A
Object type: STUD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A gold setting, possibly from a pendant or finger-ring, containing a glass intaglio. The setting comprises a plain collar, now badly cracked, and a series of plain and beaded lines. Moving outwards from the collar the following sequence is seen; plain, beaded, beaded, plain, beaded, beaded. The back-plate is of undecorated gold sheet. The intaglio is dark green in colour, almost circular and decorated with a pair of beasts, their heads facing each other and their bodies interlaced with this hips shown.  The object is badly damaged and the intaglio has almost com…
Created on: Monday 18th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 20th July 2023
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Record ID: NLM-FC835D
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead strap end. A cast rectangular plate with a split inner end where a pair of lead rivets of diameter 3.4mm and length 5.8mm pass through both leaves of the plate, being burred behind. The riveted end is divided from the rest of the plate by a beaded border which encloses a symmetrical figurative motif. The scene resembles a pair of draped Victories facing each other with a tall trophy between them, and, if this reading is sustained, it must be drawn from a later Roman coin. The back is entirely plain. Despite its straight outer end, this object presumably derives from Thomas's clas…
Created on: Wednesday 4th September 2019
Last updated: Thursday 5th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-8C0D46
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: An incomplete gold C-bracteate, dating to the early-medieval period (c.AD450-600). The pendant comprises a disc of gold sheet that is bent, torn and crumpled in appearance, and of which approximately 30% is missing. The obverse features an anthropomorphic head looking left with a quadruped beaneath. Of the anthropomorphic head can be distinguished a ‘stripy’ hairstyle with a line ending behind the head in 3 curving lines forming the ribbons of the diadem (based on the imperial heads of 4th century Roman coins and medallions that served originally as model…
Created on: Monday 25th March 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2022
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Record ID: WREX-3FFBC9
Object type: COIN HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE: 2019 T196 Description: Two silver pennies issued by Edward the Confessor dating 1044-1046. (N.816; BMC Type 1). Obverse has Roman imperial bust facing left, wearing a radiate crown. Reverse has a small cross pattee. Coin 1 - Diameter: 15.9mm; weight: 0.7g This coin is incomplete with small chips missing around the edge. It also has a slight fold through the centre with a hair-line crack. Mint: Colchester Moneyer: Brunhyse? Coin 2 - Diameter: 17mm; weight: 0.8g. This coin is incomplete with a small chip beneath the bust. Mint: Probably Chester Moneyer:…
Created on: Monday 25th February 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Knockin', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-DDCE6E
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast, copper-alloy sub-circular object of unknown date. It is possible that it is a very badly worn Roman coin which was perforated at a later date, one side has a slightly raised surface which could reflect the outline of an emperor's bust. No other decoration is visible. The perforation or cut-out is c. 5 mm in diameter. Suggested date: early Anglo-Saxon, 5th-6th centuries. Diameter: 24.23 mm; Thickness: 2.50 mm; Weight: 6.98 g.
Created on: Sunday 27th January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 11th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Osbournby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-862E74
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early-medieval A-bracteate. A disc of beaten gold bearing a low-relief design within a stamped border, and retaining a finely billeted rim, now detached at 3 o'clock and broken at 12 o'clock relative to the design. The object also bears a ragged transverse tear extending from 10 o'clock. The central design is obviously derived from the profile diademed imperial bust appearing on late Roman coinage, though with significant adaptations which are deliberately chosen, rather than simple misconstructions of the design. A first departure from the Roman model is th…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd January 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Worlaby', grid reference and parish protected.