Record ID: FAKL-FF5EB9
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval (c. AD1200-1350) lead seal matrix of unusual crudity. It appears to have been roughly cut from a piece of sheet lead and lacks any handle or fittings. On one face is a lighly incised cross around which is a deeply incised inscription '+ S' RICI/ RVC'.Length 29.9mm, Width 16.3mm, Thickness 3.0mm, Mass, including sleeve, 9.48g. The crudity of this object is striking, and one can only speculate for whom, and why, it was made.
Created on: Thursday 30th May 2019
Last updated: Sunday 2nd June 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-5A14D0
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval book clasp of Howsam type A.2, dating to c. 1300-1450. The clasp is made from cast copper alloy and is functionally a strap end of composite 'forked spacer' type (Egan and Pritchard, 1991, 140-146). Two plates, set either side of the fork, form a socket for the strap. Traces of the solder that secured them are present. In front of the fork is a 20.0mm diameter, hemispherical boss, its face marked by six, incised, radiating lines, linked by curved lines. Through the boss is a 3.2mm diameter hole which would have originally fitted over a pin, holding the strap in place around t…
Created on: Thursday 17th August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 18th December 2018
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Record ID: FAKL-9850A9
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy mount in the form of a disc, both faces of which appear to bear crypto-zoomorphic decoration cast in deep relief. Both faces appear similar with what appear to be a pair of animals looking back, over their own bodies, towards the centre, their eyes marked by small holes and their jaws agape, their front legs touch the inside of the frame and they appear to have crests on their heads. It is difficult to interpret their lower bodies which may be looped around. The two faces are divided by central bars on which are raised annulets. The disc bears two sockets, both c…
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2017
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Record ID: FAKL-5F11B6
Object type: MACE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wakefield
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval cast copper alloy mace head. The lower part of the head is cylindrical with a small moulding around the 22.7mm diameter socket opening. The cylinder develops into a pentagonal section along each angle of which is a 53mm long row of five, pyramidical projections, the intervening spaces being plain. At the top of the mace is a 12mm diameter hole opening into the socket. On one side of the socket cylinder is a 3mm diameter hole which would have allowed the head to be fixed to the handle. Length 79.5mm, Diameter (maximum) 30.4mm, Wall thickness 2.5mm (increasing towards top) Mass…
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2017
Last updated: Monday 12th August 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-CCF8FB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leeds
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval cloisonné enamel brooch. Gilt cast copper alloy with pseudo filigree and granulation. In its centre is a 15.5mm diameter x 2.0mm high collet containing enamel/glass inlay. This consist of four, rectangular pieces of pale blue glass arranged to form a cross. Between these elements are four keystone shaped pieces of dark blue glass which may have been made up of smaller pieces or have been fragmented. In the centre of the setting is what appears to be a piece of degraded white glass. It is not possible to see walls between the cells and this brooch might be better descri…
Created on: Friday 4th November 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2016
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Record ID: FAKL-EC9C24
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval harness pendant, copper alloy, shield shaped with an integral loop set on a bar on one side. On the face of the pendant is the outline of a butterfly or moth set against white enamel, the thorax is marked with transverse lines, four wings are shown, marked with one, or three dots. Two antenae are shown. A gold butterfly on a red background was the badge of the Audley family, with lands in Essex. Other examples of pendants bearing this motif have been recorded by the PAS and examples are listed on SUR-6D0424. Length 43.8mm, Width 25.5, Thickness 2.2mm, Attachment loop 6.8mm.
Created on: Monday 13th June 2016
Last updated: Sunday 19th June 2016
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Record ID: FAKL-A943E9
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval buckle and plate, copper alloy, the frame in the form of an elongated oval with a 2.7mm diameter circular section. On each side of the frameare three neatly incised, transverse lines and an incised chevron beneath the point where the pin egages, which are heavily worn. The plate is triangular and has relatively heavy, 3.2mm thick, section. It has an open centre one end being incurved to accomodate the upper two rivets. It does not appear that this opening contained a setting. Through the plate were three rivets, two of which survive, these are 1.2mm in diameter and hav…
Created on: Thursday 17th March 2016
Last updated: Thursday 17th March 2016
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Record ID: FAKL-9411D4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval disc, probably from a disc on bow, great square headed brooch. The disc is made from gilt copper alloy and was decorated with cloisonne inlay, the stones are missing from the central and surrounding three cells which are in the form of conjoined trapezoids. One half of each of the cells contains a piece of grid-patterned gold foil, the other half containing patterned silver foil. The silver foils are set with the grid uppermost, the gold foils are face-down. The red material in the central cell is recent. Between the cells are panels of zoomorphic interlace each consist…
Created on: Wednesday 16th March 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-2EC8D5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval fragment, probably from a buckle. Cast copper alloy in the form of Style I eagle's head, the eye is represented by a pellet is set within an L shaped frame, beneath it are three raised, curved bands.the central one bearing transverse lines. Instead of a beak, a D sectioned bar extends out in front of the eagle's head. Behind the head are three projecting lobes, the central one larger than its counter parts. This object is likely to be part of a buckle, the projection in front of the head and the lower of the three projectons behind the head being the remains of the fram…
Created on: Friday 11th March 2016
Last updated: Friday 11th March 2016
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Record ID: FAKL-2931C4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval fitting decorated in the 'Quoit Brooch Style'. The fitting consists of a hollow, D sectioned tube, 12.8 x 8.3mm on one side of which is an integrally cast loop. This has a flat, 5.7 x 3.3mm section and one of its faces is edged by incised lines containing rows of angled lines. The loop is asymmetrically set, being level with the tube's undecorated, flat face. On the curved face of the tube are four, incised Quoit Brooch Style animals set in opposed and mirrored, pairs either side a central, transverse groove and separated by incised longitudinal lines. This is flanked b…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 30th September 2015
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Record ID: FAKL-05180F
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval Irish harness mount, cast copper alloy with a gilded face bearing panels of reticulate interlace. The mount is cruciform, its four arms set around a central roundel. Each arm narrows before expanding to form a rectangular terminal. The central roundel is marked by a 20mm diameter ring which is raised above the level of the four arms. A similar raised band defines the edges of the arms. These frames are not gilded, but the gilding may have been lost from these areas. While the gilding extends up the sides of the central roundel the vertical, outer edges of the mount app…
Created on: Friday 28th August 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 1st September 2015
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Record ID: FAKL-5D6B44
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy stylus or pin , Early Medieval, terminal spatulate, triangular, other end pointed. Between this and the shank is a fine double moulding. The shank is swollen, its diameter expanding from 3.6mm to 4.3 towards its pointed end. Around its widest area are two incised, circumferencial lines. The object is in good condition although the shank is bent. Length (if straight) 123.6mm, Width of spatulate end: 13.7mm (thickness 1.0mm) Mass 9.49g, This object has features both of a pin and of a stylus. The triangular spatulate terminal would allow it to be placed in Pestell's Class…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd September 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elloughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-DEBA03
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early, Early Medieval, gilt, cast copper alloy mount decorated with two Anglo-Saxon Style I animals and glass inlay. The mount is square with a central inset containing a piece of what appears to be degraded red glass. Around this are two animals, their oval eyes at 2 o'clock and 8 o'clock. These are set within two curved bands, one of three, the other of two, strands, the end of one three-strand band appears to turn at 90 degrees. The animals' bodies consist of three-strand bars, they have long necks each with a foot springing from the point where it joins the body. Below the body i…
Created on: Monday 10th March 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 12th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stamford Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-3AE235
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an Early Medieval Irish penannular brooch, silver gilt bearing incised decoration consisting of double spiral, a zone of double chevron ribs set within two ribs and a number of gently rounded plain panels. The back is flat and undecorated. This fragment is best paralleled by two plates fixed to the back of the brooch from Killamery, Co. Kilkenny (Youngs, 1989, 99-100, Catalogue Number 80). These show the some decorative element as seen on the Torksey find, the spiral (which is only a single ring on Killamery) the herring-bone like chevron and the plain areas. The Killamery…
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 28th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Torksey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-AB1C25
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval rectangular buckle plate with caged decoration, sheet copper alloy with cast fittings. A most elaborate piece made up of a number of elements; a sheet metal backing plate one end of which has been scrolled around to form a tube in the middle of which is a notch into which the buckle pin was fitted. The back of this plate was tinned or silvered. Secured to the backing plate by four copper alloy rivet is a sheet metal plate bearing the figure of a standing animal, its head thrown back and its tail curved, and recurved over its back. The nose, mouth and oval eye are shown but th…
Created on: Tuesday 1st October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd October 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foxley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-8A09C2
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval cast copper-alloy mount in the form of an animal's head set on a long neck, at the end of which is a 4.1mm diameter x 10.3mm deep socket. The neck has rectangular section, 9.2 x 8.2mm and on each of its faces the two edges are marked by incised lines between which is an incised arch. The two incised lines converge on the inner face of the neck to form a neat tong-shaped panel. The animal's head is deeply modelled and striking. It has widely diverging jaws with both its lower and upper jaws strongly out-turned, an incised groove extends the line of the upper jaw around th…
Created on: Thursday 5th September 2013
Last updated: Friday 28th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickersley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-3D1AF1
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: City of Peterborough
Workflow stage: Published
Seal matrix carved from jet or shale, oval with a projection at one end through which is a 2.4mm diameter, transverse hole. The face of the matrix bears an incised inscription set within two lines. This is difficult to read but appears to be +FR [a?] H [o?]. In the centre is a neatly carved floral motif. Back plain. Length 34.0mm, Width 22.1mm, Thickness 7.1mm. Mass not recorded.
Created on: Tuesday 20th August 2013
Last updated: Monday 23rd September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-4041E3
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver pinhead (probably) in the form of a sitting bird. Wings folded against body and defined by a deep groove, their upper surface bears stamped decoration consisting of a medial line of X impressions, a line of round impressions and the edges marked by triangular impressions the details of all being lost to corrosion. the head is small and neat with a fowl-like beak. The eyes are represented by 9mm diameter hollows one of which appears to contain what might be traces of blue glass. Tail small, no legs shown, on the underside is the stub of a 2.3mm diameter shank. Length 13.4mm, …
Created on: Sunday 21st April 2013
Last updated: Friday 27th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Ferriby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-FF11F0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy plate brooch, rectangular with concave sides, on its face is an image of a small bird with a rounded body, wedge-shaped wings, a large head with a circular eye and a short beak. Below the bird is arch motif. On the underside of the plate are two fittings, the details of which were not recorded but appear to have consisted of a ring which held the pin and a catch plate. Trace of iron corrosion products are present on the back..The object appears to have been recently damage by the plough. Length 27.8mm, Width 18.5mm, Mass 5.17g. Barry Ager writes: This brooch is…
Created on: Friday 11th January 2013
Last updated: Friday 23rd November 2018
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Record ID: FAKL-B87573
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy mount showing the figures of two men, dressed in long robes, their arms clasped around each other's upper bodies, their necks crossing. Their feet are raised, as if to trip each other, suggesting that they may be wrestling. The robes are elaborate and appear pleated with decorative edging. No belts or footwear are shown or suggested. Both men have strong features with the ears, noses, eyes and lips boldly defined. They are clean-shaven and their hair is shown combed back from the forehead and of shoulder length. The back of the mount is undecorated; it was original…
Created on: Friday 14th December 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barham', grid reference and parish protected.