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Comprising a raised beat-head modelled in the half-round beneath a triangular void with scrolled shoulders, open mouth with Winchester-style scrolled tendrils and pierced attachment lug. 17.4 grams, 50 mm



Found UK. From a UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Comprising an expanding arm cross within a circular border, punched ring-and-dot decoration, pin and catch on the reverse. 12.6 grams, 36 mm



From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the mid 1980s.

With highly decorative openwork border of Style I ornament to the headplate formed as a rectangular median plate with lateral wings, enhanced with punched-pellet detail to the sides and top edge of each; raised central square panel with incised rosette; to the middle of each edge a Style I human mask in plan, formed as a T-shaped brow-and-nasal with two pellet eyes, with pairs of Style I profile bird-heads with curved beaks; the bow deep with facetting at each end; the footplate rectangular with Style I lappets; transverse collar above a finial Style I human mask with complex beard below; pin-lugs and scar for catchplate to reverse. 52 grams, 12.3 cm



Found Seaham, Co Durham, UK. Property of a Durham private collector.

The florid cruciform brooch presents a headplate as a rectangle above the bow, with wings visible to either side. The top and side-knobs show stylised human faces with prominent eyes. The decoration is in style 1. The finial also has the prominent eyes found on the headplate surrounds, with the nose formed by an extension of the footplate and curly moustaches forming at the same time as the part of the flanking animals.

Trapezoidal type with saw-cut teeth to each long edge, one group coarse and the other fine. 14.95 grams, 71 mm



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Substantial ring with keeled hoop, pointille decoration on the shoulders, hexagonal bezel with stylised animal with elongated neck and long tail. 6.76 grams, 25.06 mm overall, 21.66 x 19.80 mm internal diameter (approximate size British V, USA 10 1/2, Europe 23.77, Japan 22)



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.

From Norwegian ragstone or black sandstone with mica schist, tongue-shaped in plan with rounded ends, pierced near upper edge; usage wear. 68.5 grams, 78 mm



Found near Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, UK. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.LIN-5DB46A.

Formed as a single square-section wire twisted about its own length with one looped end and one hooked. 4.9 grams, 49 mm



From the private collection of the late collection of Mr M., Waterlooville, Hampshire, UK, formed from the late 1980s to early 1990s.

Deep bow with lateral flanges, pinlugs and catchplate on the reverse. 10.6 grams, 43 mm



Found North Yorkshire, UK.

Comprising a flat-section hoop widening at the shoulders, a rectangular bezel with two standing figures, one with his arm raised. 4.25 grams, 22.51 mm overall, 17.37 mm internal diameter (approximate size British O, USA 7, Europe 14.98, Japan 14)



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.

With a narrow frame, pin mounted at the apex. 0.48 grams, 15.7 mm



Found Billingsgate spoil from the Thames foreshore, London, UK, circa 1984. Ex property of an Essex collector.

With a D-shaped buckle frame with a narrowed and offset bar, moulded knops decorated with a series of covering raised pellets at each end of the bar; a D-section pin fitted around the bar by an open loop, with a raised circumferential collar present at the junction of the loop and shaft of the pin. 1.93 grams, 14 mm



Found by Jason Ashley whilst searching with a metal detector near Overton, Hambleton, North Yorkshire, UK, in 2025. Accompanied by a copy of the Report for H M Coroner on find of Potential Treasure with Treasure reference no.2025T1065. Accompanied by a copy of a letter from the British Museum disclaiming the Crown's interest in the find. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.YORYM-EF238A.

With a wide hoop and an oval bezel with an eight-petalled flower on a pointillé-decorated field. 5.92 grams, 21.49 mm overall, 19.25 mm internal diameter (approximate size British P, USA 7 1/2, Europe 16.23, Japan 15)



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.