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Record ID: YORYM-AFC732
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Identification supplied by Jim Halliday. An enamelled, cast copper-alloy, hollow backed pyramid-shaped mount which is rectangular in plan. The top of the pyramid is flattened forming a small rectangle. The four triangular faces of the mount each with its vertical cells of white enamel forming a cross. The raised divisions forming these triangular cells may have been gilded or burnished. The colours of the enamel may have been leached out by ground waters whilst it was in the plough soil and may not appear true as when in its original condition. Measuring: 25mm. x 25mm.x height 8.9mm. …
Created on: Monday 26th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 2nd April 2020
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This findspot is known as 'Everingham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: YORYM-FDA131
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy and glass or enamel plate brooch dating to the 2nd-3rd century. The object comprises an oval-shaped disc with a central cavity, formed by an integral lip of copper alloy. There is a ring of green glass or enamel inlaid into the recessed band running around the central cavity. On the reverse of the disc, there are the remains of the hinge and the catchplate.
Created on: Friday 30th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: YORYM-DF6BB4
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete case copper alloy spur, probably dating to the 18th - 19th Century. The sides have a lozenge shaped section and are decorated with an incised floral design. They are inlaid with gold or silver. One is complete with a figure of eight terminal, the other has lost its terminal due to a break. The neck has two faceted faces decorated with a series of chevrons. The rowel box and rowel no longer survive.
Created on: Thursday 7th October 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 17th November 2020
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This findspot is known as 'Walkington', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: YORYM-2BB056
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon strap end. It has an elongated shape and is formed from a single plate which splits at the attachment end. There are two rivet holes through the attachment end, though no rivets survive. The front has been decorated with a Trewhiddle-style beast within a sunken sub-rectangular field. The beast has its feet to one side of the strap-end and looks backwards over its back; it is the right way up when the strap-end is held with the attachment end to the viewer's right. It has an open mouth, round eye, and long pointed ear; the neck is decorated with a line of dot…
Created on: Wednesday 12th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
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This findspot is known as 'Market Weighton Area', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: YORYM1532
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
irregular mavered spots in red glass on dark blue glass bead, 1 spot missing and 1 patch of exfoliated bead surface-damaged, circular recesses for red glass-1 extinct
Created on: Wednesday 26th July 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'East Yorks', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: YORYM601
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Leeds
Workflow stage: Published
as per scan. Glass cobalt blue. Wave pattern degraded, off-white, crystallised. Flattened top and bottom around hole. Hole slightly acentric.
Created on: Monday 13th September 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'WEST YORKSHIRE BRAMHAM CUM OGLETHORPE', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: YORYMM224
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Published
Animal to right looking backwards with slightly debased terminal. Truncated at proximal end, the 2 attachment holes incomplete. Some wear on face. Undecorated reverse. Beast in central panel, no garlands. 2 pieces riveted with copper alloy rivet, join especially visible on reverse. Dark grey-brown patina.
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 1998
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'NORTH YORKSHIRE HESLINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: YORYM-DCDDF3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon strap end, with the remains of silver inlay. The strap end is the kind identified by Thomas as Class A Type 2, with a moulded animal head terminal. The front face has elaborated grooved borders, originally inlaid with silver, and a central disc shaped panel with an engraved design, either geometric or zoomorphic interlace. The attachment end has been broken off. The reverse is plain, but has a central panel of what appears to be something like a solder, suggesting the piece has been reused as a decorative plate.
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2006
Last updated: Thursday 8th April 2021
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This findspot is known as 'York', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: YORYM-211F64
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon strap end. The strap end is leaf shaped with a protuding animal head terminal with bulbous snout and protuding eyes. Behind this terminal is an incised design of 2 spirals, possibly representing an animal crest/mane. The central panel is decorated with an incised design of an indecipherable figure within an incised border of linked squares with central dots in the squares. The lines forming this central design are inlaid with an unidentified white substance. The attachment and has 2 circular perforations ca 2.5mm in diameter for attachment, one in each …
Created on: Monday 22nd November 2004
Last updated: Friday 23rd April 2021
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Record ID: YORYM-D23B76
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy strap end of Early Medieval date. Thomas Class A, Type 1avii; Wooperton-type with zoomorphic terminal and Trewhiddle decoration. The strap end is a pointed oval in shape with a zoomorphic terminal at the closed end and a slightly concaved open split terminal with two rivet holes at the attachment end. The strap end is cast in one piece but the attachment end is split into an upper and lower plate to allow the strap material to be fitted. Between the rivet holes on the upper surface is an inverted fan shaped decoration. The zoomorphic terminal is in the for…
Created on: Wednesday 10th July 2013
Last updated: Thursday 8th April 2021
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Record ID: YORYM-D28265
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An imcomplete cast copper alloy strap end of Early Medieval date (AD 750-950). The strap end is of Thomas' Class A, Type 1 with zoomorphic terminal and Trewhiddle decoration. The strap end is a pointed oval in shape with a zoomorphic terminal at the closed end only the back plate remaining of the open split terminal with two rivet holes at the attachment end. The strap end is cast in one piece but the attachment end would have been split into an upper and lower plate to allow the strap material to be fitted. The zoomorphic terminal is in the form of a forward facing animal head with b…
Created on: Monday 22nd July 2013
Last updated: Thursday 8th April 2021
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Record ID: YORYM-FEAD9E
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete early medieval copper-alloy strap end with zoomorphic imagery and two copper-alloy rivets, Thomas Class A, Type 1 (c. 750 - 900 AD). Sub-rectangular in form with convex edges tapering into a zoomorphic terminal. The zoomorphic terminal can be described as consisting of a triangular lobe flanked at the top by two smaller lobes; above this is a raised triangular section which points towards the triangular lobe and is therefore at mirror image to it. Above the triangular section are two grooves that curl outwards towards the edge of the strap end and represent a diminution of a …
Created on: Wednesday 6th September 2017
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
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Record ID: YORYM-D3E6EC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Boot or Garter buckle dating from the late post-medieval period (c.1720-1790 AD). The buckle is rectangular with a central bar running down the middle and two fixed, spiked tongues protruding from this bar. This bar is loose from the frame, and the frame has two circular notches, one on the bottom and one on the top, in which the bar would have fitted in. The left outer bar of the frame is flattened and has been incised with multiple irregular lines, two of which correspond to where the spiked tongues would sit. The bar has the remains of a tin coating on, which may hav…
Created on: Wednesday 20th February 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2019
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Record ID: YORYM-D38B6B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete single loop rectangular buckle dating from the Post-Medieval period (c.1500-1650 AD). The frame is sub-rectangular with concave sides and a rounded front with a single loped knop. The strap bar is narrowed, with the frame extending beyond the bar terminating in two loped knop feet. The front of the buckle has a single engraved curvilinear line beneath the loped knop. Beneath this line there is also an indentation where the pin would have rested. The pin is not present. There is traces of a possible tin coating across the buckle, which would have resulted in a silvery app…
Created on: Wednesday 20th February 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2019
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Record ID: YORYM-1052F3
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy mount from a buckle of medieval date, c.AD 1200 – 1450.
The mount comprises a large central conical boss from which four evenly spaced, ovate sectioned arms extend to form a cross. Each arm terminates in a smaller conical boss.
Each of the five bosses has a deep central circular recess, all except the central boss retain an applied white paste or solder.
The reverse of the mount is flat with an integral cylindrical lug or rivet at the centre.
The metal has a mid-green patina and is in fair condition. The object is 27.8mm long, 27.8mm wide, 7.5mm t…
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st January 2023
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Record ID: WREX-650616
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unidentified copper alloy object with inlaid enamel and millefiori panels, initially thought to be a Roman seal box dating from 1st to mid 3rd century AD.
The object is square in plan with two small rounded projections, one on each of the long sides. The upper surface has been divided into three rows of four square shaped cells.Each of the four corner cells contains a black and which chequer-board pattern of miliflori.The other cells are empty but may originally have contained coloured enamel. The underside of the object has a green/brown patina.
Length: 14.04mm; width: 16.86mm;…
Created on: Thursday 5th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 5th February 2019
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This findspot is known as 'Oswestry', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WREX-ABEEDC
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy pin of early medieval date c. AD 700-900. The pin has a polyhedral head with slightly rounded edges. The surface of the head is decorated with ring and dot motifs. Four of the faces of the head have a large circular setting for coloured glass - one on the top, one on the front, and one of each side.The one of the front of the pin contains blue glass and the one on the left hand side contains green glass; the settings on the right and top of the head are now empty. There is a collar between the head and the shaft.The appearance of the collar would suggest that the hea…
Created on: Monday 21st August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 5th December 2018
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This findspot is known as 'Dyserth', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: WMID2060
Object type: PIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Only the spherical shaped pin head remains. The pin head is decorated by 'ropework' which divides the pin head in two around the 'equator'. The upper portion of the head as ropework forming five 'droplets' which has three different coloured tile in red, light blue, dark blue and white. The lower portion has ropework forming circles with the larger filled with the same above tiles. The tiles maybe type of glass as opposed to a ceramic. Protruding from the base is a circular iron stem, otherwise incomplete.
Created on: Monday 15th May 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'STAFFORDSHIRE HAMMERWICH', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WMID-22391C
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy possible strap end or knife handle of probable late Medieval to Post Medieval date (c. AD 1400-1700). The object is sub-rectangular in plan, curving and widening at its terminal to a triangular point. The opposite end has two projections which would have attached it to a strap or handle of an implement. The terminal end is flat with openwork cells and shows traces of mother of pearl inlay. The other half of the object is D-shaped in cross-section and has four raised ribs running across the main body. The reverse of the object is flat at the terminal end and …
Created on: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 19th September 2018
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Record ID: WMID-031AEE
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: MODERN
County: Birmingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy and silver-plated bracelet dating to the Modern period (c. AD 1950-2010). The bracelet is comprised of a rectangular sheet of metal curved round to form a C-shape to make the main body of the object. Affixed onto the outer face are two parallel lines of four bow motifs in relief at both terminal ends, interspersed with blue and red stones set in raised cup-like recesses. In the centre of the bracelet are two possible zoomorphic fixtures also in relief on either side of a raised inscription in Hindi or Sanskrit. The inscription is repeated across two lines. So f…
Created on: Wednesday 24th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 24th October 2018
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