http://finds.org.uk/database/search/results/description/Hiberno-norse/format/xml/ 11 1 1 - 11 2010-06-10 17:17:08 Adam Daubney adaubney 2010-06-10 17:22:00 Adam Daubney adaubney LIN-110040 coin A damaged silver penny. The penny is a 'sword/hammer' type, anonymous issue of a Hiberno-Norse King of Yok, struck c. 920. A damaged silver penny. The penny is a 'sword/hammer' type, anonymous issue of a Hiberno-Norse King of Yok, struck c. 920. Silver Struck or hammered EARLY MEDIEVAL EARLY MEDIEVAL Late 920 19 Complete 2010-06-10 17:17:08 LINCOLNSHIRE SOUTH KESTEVEN POINT( ) 29.06.2003 Chance find during metal detecting 1 LIN Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike - The Portable Antiquities Scheme 2010 These records can be reproduced in a non commercial enviroment as long as the original recorder is cited. The Portable Antiquities Scheme info@finds.org.uk No fees are applicable. Anonymous (Hiberno-Norse) Sword ?with pellet to either side of blade ]D[ (Thor's hammer) ]?V?O/D?[ 3 Regular Coin of the Viking invaders 9th-10th centuries N 533 (Anon., Sword / Hammer) 2010-06-08 15:44:12 Frances McIntosh frances 2011-06-15 16:58:00 Helen Geake hgeake DUR-E573C1 WEIGHT Cast copper alloy Early Medieval weight, late 9th- 10th century in date. Hiberno-Norse/ Viking in style. It is circular in plan and has been cast. It has decoration on the upper face which has been cast integrally with the weight. It consists of a triskele motif which is concave. Within the arms of the triskele are small crescents. Around the edge is a single grooved line. The upper face was possibly silvered orginally and traces of this now remain. There is the remains of a possible casting sprue on one edge, a small circular protrusion. The weight has a mainly dark green patina and with some patches of lighter green and orange corrosion. This weight is similar to the more common lead weights with decorated tops made from small inlaid pieces of glass or decorated metalwork. Compare LVPL-9E25E4. Cast copper alloy Early Medieval weight, late 9th- 10th century in date. Hiberno-Norse/ Viking in style. It is circular in plan and has been cast. It has decoration on the upper face which has been cast integrally with the weight. It consists of a triskele motif which is concave. Within the arms ... Copper alloy Cast EARLY MEDIEVAL EARLY MEDIEVAL Late 850 1000 31.77 13.92 Curvilinear Fair Complete 2010-06-08 15:44:12 DURHAM DARLINGTON POINT( ) 29.06.2003 Metal detector 1 DUR Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike - The Portable Antiquities Scheme 2010 These records can be reproduced in a non commercial enviroment as long as the original recorder is cited. The Portable Antiquities Scheme info@finds.org.uk No fees are applicable. 2010-01-22 01:45:53 Anna Tyacke atyacke 2011-02-24 13:50:06 Daniel Pett dpett CORN-902CE5 buckle Cast copper-alloy buckle frame, semi-circular in plan and semi-circular in cross-section, with a flat reverse. The frame was originally D-shaped, like the comparanda below. Only one of the three terminals survives, in the form of a sub-triangular animal head terminal with circular eye sockets which may have originally been settings for a stone. The other two terminals on either side of this one are missing, but would probably have looked the same. The frame is chamfered on the outer edge, but still leaving a flat upper surface which is ornamented with a zigzag pattern, with some barred ornament along the chamfered surface. Underneath, the curving part of the frame is chamfered inwards slightly from the outer edge. The pin and bar are missing; the bar would originally have connected the missing two terminals together. A recess between the eyes of the surviving head represents the pin rest. The head is also decorated with curvilinear grooves and raised areas to define the eyes and nostrils, and there is a separate panel for the snout to suggest scales. One similar example has already been found in Cornwall, in Phillack parish, CORN-EC5F13. A number of similar examples have been found in Suffolk, from Orford (SF7560), Nacton (SF-9F02E3), Claydon (SF-79DAF8) and Mendham (SF-76F478). The Mendham example was attached to the belt by means of an additional plate wrapped around the pin-bar and cut in at the outer edges to accommodate the frame. Other examples on the PAS database include NMS-9B0AC7 and an interesting pair of rectangular variants, HAMP-BA9FC0 and LVPL-99FBD2 (found in Suffolk). A similar buckle frame from Old Sarum, although not from a dated context, is in the Ashmolean Museum (Hinton 1974, no. 32) and is also illustrated by Cuddeford (1996, p. 16, no. 15). They are dated on art-historical grounds from the 9th to the 11th century. The closest parallels are in the Borre style, named after a site in Denmark, but this particular type of buckle has only been found in Britain and Ireland and therefore should be referred to as Anglo-Scandinavian or Hiberno-Norse (see below). "The triangular headed animal is found commonly on 10th century strap ends in Ireland that are probably made in Hiberno-Norse Dublin, but based pn Anglo-Saxon forms. They have been found on high status crannogs in the midlands that were in commercial contact with Dublin and an example was found in the vicinity of a Viking house at Truska, Co. Galway. I don't have any exact parallels from buckles, although the animal form is found on a moulding on a buckle plate from the royal crannog of Coolure Demesne, Co. Westmeath (Coolure Demesne Crannog, Lough Derravaragh: an introduction to its archaeology and landscapes, Aidan O'Sullivan, Rob Sands and Eamonn P. Kelly, Wordwell, Bray, 2007, page 29, Fig.34, No. E621:79). This site also produced other Viking Age material including hack silver, ingots, scales, weights etc. If your buckle were to turn up on a Viking Age site in Ireland it would probably be assumed to have a Hiberno-Norse background." (Eamonn Kelly, National Museum of Ireland, pers comm). Cast copper-alloy buckle frame, semi-circular in plan and semi-circular in cross-section, with a flat reverse. The frame was originally D-shaped, like the comparanda below. Only one of the three terminals survives, in the form of a sub-triangular animal head terminal with circular eye sockets w... Copper alloy Cast EARLY MEDIEVAL EARLY MEDIEVAL Late 800 1100 21 33 6.3 Fragment 2010-01-22 01:45:53 CORNWALL PENWITH POINT( ) 29.06.2003 Metal detector 1 CORN Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike - The Portable Antiquities Scheme 2010 These records can be reproduced in a non commercial enviroment as long as the original recorder is cited. The Portable Antiquities Scheme info@finds.org.uk No fees are applicable. 2009-12-08 17:47:58 Mark Lodwick mlodwick 2011-12-07 16:50:18 Kevin Leahy kleahy NMGW-E8F8A8 PIN A loop-headed ringed pin, with slightly pitted, stripped surface and golden colour (typical of some beach finds). The ring has a dark corrosion layer on the surface, remnants of which also survive on the shaft. The ring is of 'fixed' type, with a constriction where it fits through the loop head of the pin; the pin can therefore swing, but not move freely around the ring. The ring is of lozenge cross-section, and is decorated with five groups of transverse incised lines. The pin has a raised transverse moulding at the junction of the loop head with the shaft. The shaft changes in cross-section, tapering from a broad rectangular cross-section to a narrow waist of circular cross-section, then broadening and flattening from about the midpoint on the shaft to a rectangular cross-section, before tapering again to the tip. Both faces of the lower part are decorated with an incised border around an angular version of a single-strand interlace, interspaces being filled with diagonal lines. A vertical seam line on the shaft below the head is probably the result of the manufacturing process, but two transverse incised lines decorate the flattened front of the shaft, about two-thirds from the tip, and there are curved single lines at the junction of the circular cross-section with the flattened lower half on both sides. Analysis to ascertain the elemental composition of the shaft was carried out by Mary Davis (National Museum Wales) using a CamScan MaXim 2040 analytical scanning electron microscope (SEM), plus an Oxford Instruments Link Isis energy dispersive X-ray spectrometer (EDX). This has established that the shaft is made of leaded brass; the amount of lead is difficult to quantify by this type of analysis but the object has an average composition of 80-83% copper, 13-15% zinc and 2-6% lead. The ringed pin was a form of dress fastener which developed as a result of contact between artisans in the Celtic West and sub-Roman Britain. The type became very popular in Ireland, being ultimately adopted by the Hiberno-Norse during the Viking period. In form it comprised a pin with a ring inserted through a looped, perforated or pierced head. According to Fanning, about a third of all ringed pins known from Europe by 1990 had been found in medieval Dublin, but the head form of the Gower pin does not fall within the five main classes used for the Dublin ringed pins (Fanning 1994, 1-8). It is, however, very similar in form and decoration to a ringed pin found on the foreshore of the Severn Estuary at Black Rock, Portskewett, Monmouthshire and now in Newport Museum & Art Gallery (accession number NPTMG 92.16-1, -2; Redknap 2000, 82, fig. 122). The only minor differences are that the Portskewett ring has, in addition to transverse incised lines, a pair of incised lines bordering the ring; the shaft has five undecorated ribbons (rather than eight) creating a single-strand interlace pattern, and a series of parallel lines at the tip. The Portskewett ringed pin is also slightly shorter. Are the two pins of Scandinavian manufacture? They have prominent 'shoulders' to their shafts, and the Gower example also has the upper end of the shaft expanded and flattened in characteristic Scandinavian style (Graham-Campbell 1984, 36). A close parallel was found at Birka (Uppland, Sweden), in a coffin burial which included a Kufic coin of the 8th or early 9th century. The Birka pin has a similarly shaped 'shouldered' shaft, with incised line borders on the expanded upper and lower parts (Arbman 1940-43, 422 (grave 1007), fig. 377, 1, pl. 44.1; Graham-Campbell 1980, no. 204). Another with a similar shaft profile was found in a female grave in the cemetery at Tuna in Alsike (Uppland, Sweden), attributed to the first half of the 10th century (Arne 1934, 33 (grave VIb), 71, Taf. XI, fig. 3). Both the Tuna and Birka pins, however, have rings with collared and flared ends either side of the constriction. It seems likely on the basis of these parallels that the Gower and Portskewett ringed pins should be attributed to the Middle Viking period (late 9th to second half of the 10th century). They form a significant addition to the small group of late 9th-/10th-century finds from Wales with Hiberno-Norse associations, and their shared features indicate that they probably came from the same workshop. A loop-headed ringed pin, with slightly pitted, stripped surface and golden colour (typical of some beach finds). The ring has a dark corrosion layer on the surface, remnants of which also survive on the shaft. The ring is of 'fixed' type, with a constriction where it fits through the loop head o... Copper alloy Cast EARLY MEDIEVAL EARLY MEDIEVAL Late 875 1000 24.1 163 3.8 2009-12-08 17:47:58 SWANSEA Swansea POINT( ) 29.06.2003 Metal detector 1 NMGW Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike - The Portable Antiquities Scheme 2009 These records can be reproduced in a non commercial enviroment as long as the original recorder is cited. The Portable Antiquities Scheme info@finds.org.uk No fees are applicable. 2009-05-13 13:58:29 Becky Crawford beckyc 2011-02-24 13:15:55 Daniel Pett dpett NMS-AC3743 Weight A weight, corroded, circular with a chamfered edge, and an obscure incised curvilinear pattern or device on the upper surface, the weight, 25.26g (390.0 grains), is close to that identified from around 200 Hiberno-Norse finds from Dublin (26.6g). A weight, corroded, circular with a chamfered edge, and an obscure incised curvilinear pattern or device on the upper surface, the weight, 25.26g (390.0 grains), is close to that identified from around 200 Hiberno-Norse finds from Dublin (26.6g). Copper alloy EARLY MEDIEVAL EARLY MEDIEVAL EARLY MEDIEVAL Complete 2009-05-13 13:58:29 NORFOLK BRECKLAND POINT( ) 29.06.2003 Metal detector 1 NMS Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike - The Portable Antiquities Scheme 2009 These records can be reproduced in a non commercial enviroment as long as the original recorder is cited. The Portable Antiquities Scheme info@finds.org.uk No fees are applicable. 2009-04-18 20:58:56 Dom Andrews dandrews 2011-02-24 13:17:27 Daniel Pett dpett YORYM-A30624 Pin Part of a copper alloy ‘Kite-Headed’ pin of the Anglo-Scandinavian period. Kevin Leahy states that these pins were common in Ireland and Eastern Britain, areas on the Hiberno-Norse trade routes. The pin shaft has an oval section. Part of a copper alloy ‘Kite-Headed’ pin of the Anglo-Scandinavian period. Kevin Leahy states that these pins were common in Ireland and Eastern Britain, areas on the Hiberno-Norse trade routes. The pin shaft has an oval section. Recorded in the Jim Halliday archive as Vikpin02 Copper alloy Cast EARLY MEDIEVAL EARLY MEDIEVAL Middle Late 700 1000 70 Incomplete 2009-04-18 20:58:56 NORTH YORKSHIRE SCARBOROUGH POINT( ) 29.06.2003 Metal detector 1 YORYM Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike - The Portable Antiquities Scheme 2009 These records can be reproduced in a non commercial enviroment as long as the original recorder is cited. The Portable Antiquities Scheme info@finds.org.uk No fees are applicable. 2009-04-18 20:46:45 Dom Andrews dandrews 2011-02-24 13:17:27 Daniel Pett dpett YORYM-A2D7D5 Pin Part of a copper alloy ‘Kite-Headed’ pin of the Anglo-Scandinavian period. Kevin Leahy states that these pins were common in Ireland and Eastern Britain, areas on the Hiberno-Norse trade routes. The pin shaft has an oval section. Part of a copper alloy ‘Kite-Headed’ pin of the Anglo-Scandinavian period. Kevin Leahy states that these pins were common in Ireland and Eastern Britain, areas on the Hiberno-Norse trade routes. The pin shaft has an oval section. Recorded in the Jim Halliday archive as Vikpin03 Copper alloy Cast EARLY MEDIEVAL EARLY MEDIEVAL Middle Late 700 900 Incomplete 2009-04-18 20:46:45 NORTH YORKSHIRE HAMBLETON POINT( ) 29.06.2003 Metal detector 1 YORYM Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike - The Portable Antiquities Scheme 2009 These records can be reproduced in a non commercial enviroment as long as the original recorder is cited. The Portable Antiquities Scheme info@finds.org.uk No fees are applicable. 2009-04-10 13:32:29 Dom Andrews dandrews 2011-12-07 16:55:58 Kevin Leahy kleahy YORYM-F3BD36 STRAP FITTING A small cast copper alloy strap-end, in good condition. The surface is green with little corrosion. The artefact is a narrow rectangle, widening around a perforation near the lower end. The normal slot extends for most of the length of the artefact. The two rivets survive in situ. The main body is decorated on both sides with a typical interlaced animal design within a rectangle, below which is a wheel device, surrounding the perforation. The edges have many small notches; the lower end has a curious design possible representing an animal head. Such artefacts are apparently normally found in Hiberno-Norse Ireland, and date from the 9th to 11th centuries. A small cast copper alloy strap-end, in good condition. The surface is green with little corrosion. The artefact is a narrow rectangle, widening around a perforation near the lower end. The normal slot extends for most of the length of the artefact. The two rivets survive in situ. The main body i... Recorded in the Jim Halliday archive as Vik Stren02 Copper alloy Cast EARLY MEDIEVAL EARLY MEDIEVAL Middle MEDIEVAL Early 800 1100 Complete 2009-04-10 13:32:29 NORTH YORKSHIRE HAMBLETON POINT( ) 29.06.2003 Metal detector 1 YORYM Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike - The Portable Antiquities Scheme 2009 These records can be reproduced in a non commercial enviroment as long as the original recorder is cited. The Portable Antiquities Scheme info@finds.org.uk No fees are applicable. 2009-04-10 13:26:38 Dom Andrews dandrews 2011-12-07 16:56:35 Kevin Leahy kleahy YORYM-F3A944 STRAP FITTING A small cast copper alloy strap-end. The artefact is a narrow rectangle with a slightly pointed, trilobate end. The other end is the usual type of slot, with the reverse leaf mostly missing. The main body is decorated on both sides with a typical interlaced animal design within a rectangle, below which is a wheel device, at the centre of which is a perforation. The edges have many small notches. Such types are apparently normally found in Hiberno-Norse Ireland, and date from the 9th to 11th centuries. A small cast copper alloy strap-end. The artefact is a narrow rectangle with a slightly pointed, trilobate end. The other end is the usual type of slot, with the reverse leaf mostly missing. The main body is decorated on both sides with a typical interlaced animal design within a rectangle, below... Recorded in the Jim Halliday archive as Viking strap-end 06 Copper alloy Cast EARLY MEDIEVAL EARLY MEDIEVAL Middle MEDIEVAL Early 800 1100 8 30 3 Complete 2009-04-10 13:26:38 NORTH YORKSHIRE HAMBLETON POINT( ) 29.06.2003 Metal detector 1 YORYM Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike - The Portable Antiquities Scheme 2009 These records can be reproduced in a non commercial enviroment as long as the original recorder is cited. The Portable Antiquities Scheme info@finds.org.uk No fees are applicable. 2007-08-24 12:55:43 Anna Tyacke atyacke 2011-02-24 13:50:06 Daniel Pett dpett CORN-EC5F13 buckle Cast copper-alloy buckle frame, triangular in plan and semi-circular in cross-section, with a flat reverse. The frame may have originally been D-shaped, like the comparanda below, and been bent into this new form. At the apex of each of the points of the triangle, there is a sub-triangular animal head terminal with circular eye sockets which may have originally been settings for a stone. One of the three terminals is missing, but would probably have looked the same. The frame is chamfered on the outer edge, but still leaving a flat upper surface which is ornamented with a zigzag pattern, with some barred ornament along the chamfered surface. Underneath, the curving part of the frame is chamfered inwards slightly from the outer edge. The pin and bar are missing; the bar would originally have connected the missing terminal with its opposite. A recess between the eyes of the other larger surviving snake head represents the pin rest. A number of similar examples have been found in Suffolk, from Orford (SF7560), Nacton (SF-9F02E3), Claydon (SF-79DAF8) and Mendham (SF-76F478). The Mendham example was attached to the belt by means of an additional plate wrapped around the pin-bar and cut in at the outer edges to accommodate the frame. Other examples on the PAS database include NMS-9B0AC7 and an interesting pair of rectangular variants, HAMP-BA9FC0 and LVPL-99FBD2 (found in Suffolk). A similar buckle frame from Old Sarum, although not from a dated context, is in the Ashmolean Museum (Hinton 1974, no. 32) and is also illustrated by Cuddeford (1996, p. 16, no. 15). They are dated on art-historical grounds to the 9th to 11th centuries. The closest parallels are in the Borre style, named after a site in Denmark, but this particular type of buckle has only been found in Britain and Ireland and therefore should be referred to as Anglo-Scandinavian or Hiberno-Norse (see below). "The triangular headed animal is found commonly on 10th century strap ends in Ireland that are probably made in Hiberno-Norse Dublin, but based on Anglo-Saxon forms. They have been found on high status crannogs in the midlands that were in commercial contact with Dublin and an example was found in the vicinity of a Viking house at Truska, Co. Galway. I dont have any exact parallels from buckles, however the animal form is found on moulding on a buckle plate from the royal crannog of Coolure Demesne, Co. Westmeath (Coolure Demesne Crannog, Lough Derravaragh: an introduction to its archaeology and landscapes, Aidan O'Sullivan, Rob Sands and Eamonn P. Kelly, Wordwell, Bray, 2007, page 29, Fig.34, No. E621:79). This site also produced other Viking Age material including hack silver, ingots, scales, weights etc. If your buckle were to turn up on a Viking Age site in Ireland it would probably be assumed to have a Hiberno-Norse background." (Eamonn Kelly, National Museum of Ireland, pers comm) Cast copper-alloy buckle frame, triangular in plan and semi-circular in cross-section, with a flat reverse. The frame may have originally been D-shaped, like the comparanda below, and been bent into this new form. At the apex of each of the points of the triangle, there is a sub-triangular anim... Copper alloy EARLY MEDIEVAL EARLY MEDIEVAL Late 800 1100 38 42 5.5 Incomplete 2007-08-24 12:55:43 CORNWALL PENWITH POINT( ) 29.06.2003 Metal detector 1 CORN Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike - The Portable Antiquities Scheme 2007 These records can be reproduced in a non commercial enviroment as long as the original recorder is cited. The Portable Antiquities Scheme info@finds.org.uk No fees are applicable. 2006-10-24 15:20:29 Peter Reavill preavill 2011-02-24 13:51:53 Daniel Pett dpett HESH-E20370 Coin Silver Hiberno-Norse Long cross type penny of Sihtric Analafsson, minted in Dublin by the moneyer Faeremin. The coin itself is broadly based / or can be said to be an imitation of Aethelred II type long cross penny. It is thought to have been struck around the year 1000. This coin can be compared with No 21 in volume 8 of the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles Silver Hiberno-Norse Long cross type penny of Sihtric Analafsson, minted in Dublin by the moneyer Faeremin. The coin itself is broadly based / or can be said to be an imitation of Aethelred II type long cross penny. It is thought to have been struck around the year 1000. This coin can be compared... Silver Struck or hammered EARLY MEDIEVAL EARLY MEDIEVAL Late 1000 1010 19 Incomplete 2006-10-24 15:20:29 SHROPSHIRE NORTH SHROPSHIRE POINT( ) 29.06.2003 Metal detector 1 HESH Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike - The Portable Antiquities Scheme 2006 These records can be reproduced in a non commercial enviroment as long as the original recorder is cited. The Portable Antiquities Scheme info@finds.org.uk No fees are applicable. Penny Bust facing left SIHTRC RE + DYFLIN Long cross divides the coin and inscription with single pellet at centre of the cross [FAE]REMIN O [DYFLI] Dublin 1 Worn and abraded Regular Cross