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Record ID: CAM-21F0F4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval silver sceat; Series E (variety G3); mint: Netherlands; c.AD 705-10.
The coin most closely resembles variety G3 although it is somewhat crude.
Obverse shows a quilled crescent above insect-like creature. Reverse shows a beaded standard with central pellet in annulet and bars in angles. The standard is type G (p.92) with a 'V' shape outside the beaded border, the point touching the standard. The die axis is uncertain but the coin was rotated on a 12 o'clock axis to take the photograph of the reverse. Weight is 1.03g, diameter is 11.91mm, thickness is 1.85mm.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd July 2012
Last updated: Monday 20th May 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Uttlesford District', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DUR-17EEA5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold and cloisonné garnet object. The original form of the object is hard to reconstruct, as it is now bent and broken, with four pieces surviving; some areas are still in places obscured by soil. The main decorative motif is a central circular panel 20-21mm in diameter, constructed on a backplate with a ring of cloisonné around the edge and an empty circle 14mm in diameter in the centre. The backplate is pierced by two small relatively neat circular holes and two more ragged and irregular holes, all of which are pushed through from the front and none of which are in th…
Created on: Monday 2nd July 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 5th June 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Near Pickering', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-1743C6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver Anglo-Saxon sceatta, runic 'Wigraed' series Rigold R10, c.710-765 AD. As Abramson R200; Metcalf, 1994: pp. 518-520, nos. 423-425.
Created on: Monday 2nd July 2012
Last updated: Monday 9th July 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Great Barton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BUC-1693A1
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete 11th-century copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of late early-medieval date, Williams Class B, no Type. The artefact represents around half of what was originally a rectangular mount with angled flange. In openwork, the mount bears the hind leg and curled tail of a left facing beast. The top of the tail, the rear paw and an element that emerges from the rear of the beast connect with the thin frame. The upper and side strips of the frame are decorated with a median groove. These strips are also finely notched at their outer edges. The beast is decorated with grooves which …
Created on: Monday 2nd July 2012
Last updated: Monday 28th September 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Wing', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SUSS-F2C8C3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper alloy Anglo Saxon strap end of Thomas Class B, type 1 style. The strap end is 36.5mm long and is square-ended and parallel sided (4.6mm wide, 3.6mm thick) for 24mm from the terminal end, at which point itflares to a wedge shape 8.6mm wide. It has fractured at the attachment end across the mid-point of the two circular rivet holes that would have held the strap in place. The last 5mm of the attachment end is split into two, parallel to the face of the strap end in order to accommodate the strap. The last 9mm of the terminal end shows remains of trans…
Created on: Saturday 30th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 24th July 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SUSS-F0CA03
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval copper-alloy zoomorphic, niello- inlaid strap end. The strap end is 45mm long and sub-lozengiform in plan with the attachment end truncated square to the main axis. Located towards the attachment end there is a pair of small circular rivet holes, each hole being positioned nearer the sides. One of the holes contains the remains of a copper-alloy rivet. For 10mm the attachment end is split into two, parallel to the face, in order to accommodate the strap which would have been held in place by the two rivets. The terminal, pointed-end of the strap end is thicker than t…
Created on: Saturday 30th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 24th July 2019
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BH-ED1255
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver penny of Harold I (1035 - 1040); Jewel cross type, North no. 802 (1980: 131), minted 1036 - 1037. Moneyer: GODWINE STEWER ON (LV) (London).
Dimensions and weight not recorded (record compiled from emailed photograph and finder's notes).
Created on: Saturday 30th June 2012
Last updated: Saturday 30th June 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Hitchin', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: YORYM-D82EC6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy cruciform brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date. All that remains is the headplate, with a half-round integral knob at the top. The knob has a deep base, a wide waist and a small dome with a possibly incomplete extra projection above the dome. The headplate is undecorated but in poor condition, so there may have been some form of decoration which is now lost. On the reverse is a pierced pin lug with the remains of the iron pin bar and one coil of the spring visible as corrosion. The brooch fragment is 31.8mm long, 25.9mm wide and 2.3mm thick.
Created on: Friday 29th June 2012
Last updated: Friday 20th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Acklam', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CAM-C7ECC4
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete silver Early-Medieval hooked tag with a circular plate and two protruding pierced lobes for attachment. The edge of the plate is decorated with a border of pellets made from a groove within multiple transverse lines; the effect is of a ladder pattern or rope pattern.
Inside the border, the plate is divided into seven fields by four diagonal lines of the same rope or ladder pattern formed into two V shapes, one inverted and one the right way up. The crossing diagonal lines create a central lozenge-shaped field and six surrounding smaller sub-triangular fields…
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th May 2014
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'East Anglia', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-C66160
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy strap-end of Early Medieval date. All that remains is the terminal zoomorphic end due to old breaks. It is flat and sub-triangular in shape with straight sides that taper to form a stylised animal head. It consists of a pointed snout above which are sub-circular eyes defined by incised grooves and a central raised circle. Above the eyes is a flattened brow with oval shaped ears. It is too worn to be able to see if there is any decoration. It measures 19.28mm in length, 8.67mm in width, 2.50mm in thickness and weighs 1.55g.
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2012
Last updated: Sunday 23rd March 2014
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Haughley', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: HAMP-C5BF18
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An extremely bent, early-medieval (mid 5th- to 6th-century Anglo-Saxon) small-long brooch. This incomplete brooch is cast in copper alloy, with traces of an iron pin corroded within the lug. This brooch has been severely bent so much so that the arched bow is so flat that it can sit on a flat surface. The head and foot are bent almost at right angles to the flattened bow, their upper surfaces now facing.
The brooch has a rectangular head-plate with rounded corners to which has a incised border of double V-shaped stamps, with small broken annulets at the apex of each 'pyramid'. The …
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Twyford CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SUR-C4EAF2
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount belonging to Williams' Class A Type 11. The mount is roughly triangular with outwardly bowed sides and depicts a right-facing lion with his tail raised above his back. In the apex is a pendent lobe between opposed spirals. The mount is complete and has three original rivet holes for attachment. A fourth rivet hole in the right of the lower field appears to be a repair.
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 18th May 2015
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: SF-C43E86
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small silver pin with polyhedral head, missing most of its shaft. The head is a rough cube, measuring 4.8mm square at the top; it is 4.2mm tall and there is no collar between the base of the head and the top of the shaft. The corners of the cube have been cut off, leaving tiny triangular facets. All the faces are undecorated. The shaft is circular in cross-section and is 2.2mm in diameter at the top, where it tapers strongly to begin with; it then runs straight down to the fresh unpatinated break, at which it measures 1.5mm in diameter. Total length 15.0mm. Weight 1.0g.
Silver pins…
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 8th May 2014
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Near Wenhaston', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BUC-C38841
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval silver denier; Louis the Pious (814-40), Carolingian king of the Franks; mint: Melle (SW France)
Obverse : HLV DONVICUS IMP LOUIS EMPEROR
Reverse : METALLUM - Mint of Melle S W France
(information from Michael Metcalf at Ashmolean)
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2012
Last updated: Friday 20th September 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Weedon', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BUC-C35E01
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early-medieval silver penny of Beornwulf of Mercia (823-5), moneyer: Eacga, mint: East Anglian mint (Ipswich?), Naismith E21. Ref: Naismith 2011: plate 83.
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 24th June 2020
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Aston Clinton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LIN-B16211
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper-alloy, possibly a wing from an Anglo-Saxon small-long brooch. The fragment is shovel-shaped, flat and decorated on both sides with a perimeter of punched crescents, and a line of punched crescents down the centre.The narrow stem of the 'shovel' is incomplete.
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 15th September 2014
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: BERK-AD8965
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Early-medieval sceat, Woden/Monster type, (c. 710-c. 760 AD). Series X Type 31, Abramson 2006: 15 and 39; North 1994: 65, ref: 117.
Created on: Wednesday 27th June 2012
Last updated: Monday 2nd July 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'South Oxfordshire', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: KENT-9D1706
Object type: FIGURINE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A possible early Anglo Saxon copper-alloy figurine. The figurine is three-dimensional, with a narrow moulded oval head, (16.9 long,9.1mm in diameter) with two dot eyes drilled into the face. The body is sub-rectangular in plan (28.3mm long) and a flattish rectangle in cross-section, with the suggestion of moulded arms at the sides. The surfaces are undecorated. The base appears hollow, in the form of a socket with what appears to be iron inside. The base is reminiscent of a knife handle where the blade has snapped off. In total the object is 45.1mm high, 8.5mm wide, 6.3mm thick,…
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th January 2013
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Lenham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: YORYM-9ADAC1
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy pin of probable Early-medieval date. The globular head of the pin is all that remains with a short length of circular sectioned shaft projecting from the base. The shaft proper has been lost to old breaks.
The metal has a dark blackish-brown patina and is worn. The pinhead is 11.5mm long, 8.3mm in diameter and weighs 1.7g.
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2012
Last updated: Friday 3rd August 2012
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Sutton Bank', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-995152
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment Early-medieval copper-alloy openwork Anglo-Scandinavian buckle. The two lower parallel projections broadly form a D shape in plan and would have formed the pin bar and loop. The right projection is incomplete, the recessed bar visible on the left projection would have connected just below the break. The artefact then tapers towards the main body before expanding into a further three projections, the two connect projections which a concave are both incomplete due to old breaks. The projection on the right is irregular in plan and appears to be depicting a beast, it is heavil…
Created on: Tuesday 26th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 20th February 2014
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Calne Without', grid reference and parish protected.
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