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Image	Object Type	Find number	Broadperiod	County	Actions
	Mount	FAHG-123AB4	Early medieval	Cambridgeshire	xml \| csv json
Rectangular Carolingian-style mount made of gilded silver and inlaid with niello. It has been cast in high relief, with detailed and well made leaf and flower decoration. The mount is convex, with tall sides and a hollowed, uneven reverse which bears four integrally cast attachment lugs, one at...
	Brooch	FAHG-7B3D73	Early medieval	Cambridgeshire	xml \| csv json
Gilded copper-alloy great square-headed brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date, complete with red enamel inlays on head, bow and foot, and with the remains of silver plates on the footplate. Ancient repair on the bow. The brooch has relief decoration in Salin's Style I, and the silver-and-gold colour...
	Mount	FAHG-8EAAA3	Early medieval	Cambridgeshire	xml \| csv json
Flat object, possibly a mount, apparently made from copper alloy, in the shape of a horned figure carrying two spears. The object appears to be complete except for one lower corner, but depicts the figure from the waist up only. The lower edge is slightly incurved and is raised; the raised edges...
	Mount	FAHG-33D653	Early medieval	Essex	xml \| csv json
Circular early Anglo-Saxon horse-harness mount with two zones of Style II decoration, dating to the first half of the seventh century; identified from the image only.The material is uncertain, although the image appears to show gilding in very good condition with occasional spots of green corrosi...
	Brooch	FAHG-858AD2	Early medieval	Essex	xml \| csv json
Fragment of foot from a florid cruciform brooch, partly distorted by heat. The fragment consists of a decorated triangular panel with traces of an undecorated rectangular terminal below, which has been torn away; the tear has bent the metal before breaking, and the break is now a little worn. T...
	Brooch	FAHG-52BAA5	Early medieval		xml \| csv json
Copper-alloy S-shaped brooch, small and with relatively simple decoration. The brooch is relatively flat, and solid with no perforations or openwork. It is decorated with two grooves each close to an edge, resulting in a central broad flat-topped ridge flanked by a narrower ridge to either side...
	Dress fastener (dress)	SF-E1B756	Early medieval	Norfolk	xml \| csv json
Double-hooked clasp made from copper alloy. The central part is expanded into a thick rectangle measuring 25 x 10 mm and 4 mm thick. This has a central circular hole 3.5 mm in diameter, and is decorated with a spiral groove which travels from one end of the rectangle around both faces to the ot...
	Unidentified object	SF-E12D90	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Unidentified object made from copper alloy. It consists of a shield-shaped piece of copper-alloy sheet, with one edge straight and the other edges curving to a point. It is not flat, but slightly curved along the length of the straight edge. In the centre is a neat circular hole 4 mm in diamet...
	Buckle	SF-672624	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Counter-plate from a Frankish buckle set, cast from a dark, almost black copper alloy. It is roughly triangular, with an indentation in the centre of the short edge to accommodate the protruding end of the buckle's pin, and two long symmetrically shaped sides which taper towards a rounded apex. ...
	Hooked tag	SF-544A88	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Copper-alloy hooked tag with thin circular plate, decorated with an engraved diagonal cross; there are also hints of a possible zig-zag around the edge of the plate. There are two circular attachment holes at the top and a broken hook at the bottom. The hook has a wide rectangular lobe at the t...
	Brooch	SF-407812	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Copper-alloy small-long brooch, complete apart from the two side knobs. The headplate is basically rectangular, although to either side of each knob the edges are slightly concave. The only decoration consists of neatly made grooves at the base of each knob; there are four at the base of the su...
	Bridle fitting	SF-403725	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Copper-alloy bridle cheekpiece fragment, in the form of a Ringerike-style animal head. The fragment is flat and the animal is depicted in profile. No loops survive, and most of the neck is also missing. The remaining part of the neck and the head are decorated with a border of rectangular punc...
	Brooch	SF7054	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Large lozengiform brooch made from copper alloy. It is flat and relatively thick, and both ends are broken. At one end, the tapering point of the lozenge has just begun to flare out again at the break; this break has carried away the pin hinge or spring. The break at the other end has removed ...
	Plaque	SF7259	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Unidentified object, presumably decorative; perhaps some form of mount, but with no apparent means of attachment. It is basically a long thin triangle, 14 mm in maximum width and 27 mm long. The widest end is incurved and the sides nearest this end have small incurved areas. The reverse is fla...
	Brooch	SF7253	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Fragment of foot from a small-long brooch. At the old and worn break it is just 6 mm wide, and flat and undecorated with a worn catchplate on the reverse. At the bottom of the catchplate, the front has a raised square panel with a transverse groove across the centre. Below this the foot is aga...
	Spindle whorl	SF7263	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Spindle whorl made from some kind of stone, probably sandstone but possibly lava. It is globular, with its widest point (35 mm in diameter) not at the midpoint but three-fifths of the way towards one end. It measures 25 mm from one end of the central circular perforation to the other, and the p...
	Stirrup	SF7356	Early medieval	Essex	xml \| csv json
Stirrup-strap mount of Williams's Class A, Type 12, now rather worn and corroded. It is pentagonal in shape, with the base narrowed and turned back almost at right angles to form a flange. In the centre of the flange is a single iron rivet. Above the base the mount tapers a little, then flares...
	Coin	SF7390	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json

	Strap fitting	SF7450	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Copper-alloy object, perhaps a strap-fitting. One right-angled corner survives, with surviving dimensions of 25 x 33 mm. The two surviving edges both have angled flanges on the reverse, and also on the reverse is a chunky but broken pierced D-shaped lug. The front is corroded but many of the d...
	Hooked tag	SF7483	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Triangular hooked tag made from copper alloy. 16.5 mm wide at the top and 22.5 mm long, the sharp apex is turned under to form a small hook. There are two circular sewing holes set well in from the top corners. The tag is decorated with a vertical line of rectangular punchmarks, which runs rig...
	Brooch	SF7482	Early medieval	Norfolk	xml \| csv json
Lead disc brooch, 28 mm in diameter. It is flat and has relief decoration of a double-strand border around a Jellinge-style animal. The animal begins with a head with a round eye and open bulbous jaws. A long double-strand tongue emerges to interlace over the body and under one leg. The animal ...
	Pin	SF7494	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Coppr-alloy pin, missing lower part of shaft. The head is a cube of side 7 mm, with the corners cut off to give a facetted effect. There is no visible decoration on any face, and some of the angles are rubbed so that a bright brassy metal shines through. Around the top of the circular-section ...
	Brooch	SF7493	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Head and part of bow from a small-long brooch. The central panel of the headplate is trapezoidal, tapering from 18 mm wide at the top to 12 mm at the junction with the bow. Down each side of the slightly raised central panel is a row of dot-and-crescent punchmarks, largely obscured by corrosion...
	Unidentified object	SF7527	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Thick piece of copper-alloy plate with some cast decoration which may be early Anglo-Saxon Style I. There appears to be an eye within a frame, and a curly beak, but the beak seems upside down compared to the eye and headframe. The plate varies in thickness slightly. Leslie Webster has seen it,...
	Sword	SF7529	Early medieval		xml \| csv json
Copper-alloy pommel from a sword. The base of the pommel is curved and it has five curved lobes, increasing in height towards the centre. The central lobe is very much larger than the four side lobes, and has a circular perforation, 5 mm in diameter, to allow it to fit over the tang of the sword....
	Sword	SF7528	Early medieval	Cambridgeshire	xml \| csv json
Chunky copper-alloy pommel from a sword. The base of the pommel is curved and it has five curved lobes, increasing in height towards the centre. The central lobe has a circular perforation, 6 mm in diameter, to allow it to fit over the tang of the sword; there are hammer marks around the perforat...
	Brooch	SF7556	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Incomplete annular brooch with broad flat frame. One face is corroded, with a strip of mineral-preserved textile (probably a decorative border from a garment) obscuring the surface; a drilled dot can just be seen close to each break. There is a line of iron corrosion across the frame which prob...
	Unidentified object	SF7235	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Domed circular openwork object, made from copper alloy but with evidence of iron fixings. Now a little crushed, it was originally about 76 mm in diameter with a flat centre about 15 mm above the rim. The flat top has a central rivet hole about 6 mm in diameter, with the remains of an iron rivet. ...
	Strap fitting	SF7486	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Late Anglo-Saxon strap-end, now missing its attachment end. The surviving portion has straight sides which gradually taper and then curve to a small projection in the centre of the surviving end. The end of the projection appears to have broken off. There is decoration on one face of a broad lo...
	Brooch	SF7484	Early medieval	Suffolk	xml \| csv json
Side knob from a cruciform brooch. The knob is made from copper alloy, and is half-round with a slot in the base into which the edge of the headplate would have been fitted. Above this the knob has a rectangular base with rounded edges, then a narrow waist, then a hemispherical upper part with ...