Record ID: SF-3E1E14
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy early medieval (late Anglo-Saxon) zoomorphic strap end. It is tongue-shaped with straight sides (both engrailed) and pointed lower end. The upper end is split into two halves to hold a strap. A v-shaped notch has been removed from the centre of the upper edge of both parts creating a lobe to either side, each of which has an in situ copper alloy rivet through it securing the two halves together (and holding the strap in place originally). The outer face is decorated with engraved curved lines outlining each rivet hole and a downwards curving semi-circular line …
Created on: Friday 16th June 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 20th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swilland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3DB311
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a roughly round-sectioned curved copper alloy bar, broken at both ends, with three integral loops and, near one end, two oblique grooves inlaid with niello. Cf. Margeson 1993, no.289, Read 2001 no.917, NMS-ECBDB1 and NMS-5BB3F6. The first and second examples were identified as bars. It is possible that all three belong to an abnormal type of pendent frame. Extant length 87mm. Diameter 5.7mm. Second half 15th century.
Created on: Friday 16th June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 8th December 2021
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Record ID: NMS-5675FA
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and abraded Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup-strap mount with the apex missing. There is no basal flange. Traces of rust lie behind one of the two lower fixing holes. Inlaid off-white material, presumably niello, stands proud of the surface. A crude whiskered animal mask within a frame is depicted. From the basal corners the sides slope inwards to rounded lobes (one larger than the other). The top comprises two concavities flanking a broken stump. The form is slightly reminiscent of William 1997 Class A, Type 5 and of a Class C, Group 2 mount from Buxton-with-Lammas, Norfolk…
Created on: Monday 5th June 2017
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
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Record ID: BERK-10E81A
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy, collard bi-conical decorated Roman hair pin head, probably c. 50 - 400 AD. Only the pin head now remains. The top of the head has incised groves at the quadrants with a dot in each space. The lower surface has a circumferential ring of dots at its outer edge and a collar leading to the circular form shaft (now missing). There are blackened remnants of what may have been has a silvered niello surface but the piece is much abraded, leaving a light green patina
Created on: Friday 2nd June 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 1st August 2017
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Record ID: WMID-D7969B
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: MODERN
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cuff link element of Modern dating (AD 1800 to AD 1900). The cuff link is rectangular in shape, with bevelled edges and rounded corners. The reverse is undecorated, with a semi circular loop positioned centrally. A rectangular chain loop, made from one piece of wire is still situated in the attachment loop. The front of the cuff link has been decorated. It takes the shape of a rectangular cartouche, with a border of an thin engraved line with frequent small outward pointing triangular notches positioned along it. Inside this, each corner has a raised triangular area. …
Created on: Tuesday 30th May 2017
Last updated: Saturday 4th April 2020
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Record ID: SUR-92089B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval copper-alloy strap end with a flat devolved zoomorphic terminal. The body of the strap end is decorated with a cross with expanding terminals and curving sides; this design is inlaid, possibly with niello. The strap end has a split end with two iron rivets. Thomas Class A, Type 2.
Created on: Saturday 27th May 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 9th August 2017
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Record ID: WMID-4462B7
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
The strap-end is in very good condition, preserving much of the original niello infill decoration as well as the original three rivets that would have secured it to a strap at the split end. It terminates, as customary, in an animal head seen from above. This tapers at the 'cheek bones', to flare again at the nostrils, indicated by dimples. Grooves on the snout, three each side of the nostrils, the inner ones joining in a v-shape, are highlighted with niello. The eye sockets, now empty, would have originally been filled with glass; the tapering and chamfering on the head gives the tra…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd May 2017
Last updated: Thursday 2nd April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wootton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-16C942
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wokingham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper-alloy dress fastener. The fastener is in the form of a tapering hollow 'box' with a D-section and a projecting hook. The fastener has diagonal grid decoration inlaid with niello. The soldered back plate is missing. Read nos. 168-171.
Created on: Sunday 21st May 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 12th July 2017
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Record ID: NMS-EBE65D
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy three-piece dress hook, Read (2008), early post-medieval single sharp-hooked clasp Class C Type 3, a D-section tube reducing in width and thickness from the open end towards the hook. The front-plate is hollow and semicircular in section with a narrow flange to either side, and with a convex front decorated with niello inlaid cross-hatching and transverse lines. A circular sectioned rearward facing hook protruding from the base has lost its tip. There is a rectangular aperture in the back-plate. The decoration is closest to ibid. no. 170. Length o…
Created on: Friday 19th May 2017
Last updated: Friday 19th May 2017
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Record ID: NMS-5B8DCB
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a pendent loop of a medieval purse frame tapering to an incomplete terminal. The cross-section is a standard L shape, with one attachment on the flat rear and a niello-inlaid vine scroll motif on the gently convex front face. Ward Perkins 1940, Type A1 or A2. Extant length 53.7mm. Second half 15th century.
Created on: Friday 12th May 2017
Last updated: Monday 31st July 2017
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Record ID: SF-177231
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy and niello post-medieval dress hook. The body of the object consists of a semi-cylindrical cast outer section with a flat sheet-metal back plate. The cylindrical section has a narrow flattened section running along each of the longer sides to which the back plate is attached and it has a semi-circular end cap covering its lower end. A sharp rear-facing wire hook extends from the centre of this end cap. The outer face of the cylindrical section is decorated with inlaid niello arranged to form two transverse lines across each narrow end and a diagonal grid pat…
Created on: Tuesday 9th May 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 16th May 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fressingfield', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-8B9926
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and abraded medieval copper alloy sharp hooked dress fastener of hollow semi-circular cross-section tapering to the narrower, closed end from which springs an integral hook. An offset runs the length of the long sides to lie flat against a flat sheet back-plate. The convex face is decorated with pairs of transverse grooves at both ends, and between them with deeply filed lines in cross-hatched lozengiform pattern. The grooves and lines are filled with niello. The back-plate, most of the hook and most of one side are missing. Length (without hook) 20.6mm, width at narrower e…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd May 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd May 2017
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Record ID: KENT-8A488B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A cast near complete cast silver strap-end. Description: It is sub-rectangular in shape with gently convex sides that taper to a zoomorphic terminal. The opposite end is split to take a strap, and pierced with two dome-headed rivets surviving in situ. The shape of the split end is lobed around these rivets. The terminal has a blunt snout, above which are two bulbous eyes, ridged brow and pair of ears, consisting of two notched circles. The central part of the plate is decorated with a zoomorphic motif depicting a crouching beast in profile, reserved against an engraved backg…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd May 2017
Last updated: Monday 15th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-8BE525
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible harness pendant fragment. A cast bilaterally decorated heater shield-shaped plate with the same design on both sides: a black [sable] field with a neat and closely-spaced cross-hatched grid pattern or fretty. The object presumably formed part of an elaborate set of harness garniture (cf. Ashley 2002, fig. 23), and may well have been mounted at one side to remain visible from both. The edges are entirely abraded, which has obliterated any evidence for attachment. This reveals metal of a grey tint perhaps arising from tin in the metal mix. The strong tint of the bl…
Created on: Thursday 20th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 21st April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Messingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-BB3F94
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A late Medieval to early Post Medieval copper-alloy purse bar belonging to Ward Perkins' Class A2, c.1450-1550. Description: The purse bar itself is mostly complete, but the suspension loop has been broken and uncertain if it remains complete. The two arms of the purse bar are sub-rectangular in both plan and cross section and have expanded sub-rectangular terminals with central knops at either end. On the lower edge of each arm are integrally cast roughly rectangular flanges pierced four times, both measure similar at about 40mm in length. These would have acted as suspension lo…
Created on: Monday 10th April 2017
Last updated: Monday 18th May 2020
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Record ID: KENT-BA3F28
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy incomplete early-medieval strap-end of Thomas Class A type 5, c.AD 775-950, presenting hybridisation of East-Anglian and Northumbrian stylisitic motifs and techniques. Description: The strap-end is formed by a thin piece of copper split at the attachment end with two (now empty) incomplete rivet holes, both broken on their outside edges. The strap end has even parallel sides, tapering slightly towards the terminal of the strap-end. The terminal end is now missing but would likely have been a round eared zoomorphic head. The strap-end has snapped relatively evenl…
Created on: Monday 10th April 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 20th March 2018
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Record ID: SF-646F68
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon strapend dating to the Early Medieval period, c. 800-900 AD. It corresponds to Thomas' class A, type 5a; 'split-end strap ends of convex form with zoomorphic terminals, demonstrating a single field of niello and inlaid silver wire decoration'. Only the lower half of the strap-end survives, with the upper section missing due to an irregular oblique truncation, presumably representing old damage. The apex of the strap-end would have originally likely demonstrated two dome-headed circular-sectioned copper-alloy rivets and a bifurcated end for a…
Created on: Thursday 6th April 2017
Last updated: Thursday 30th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Methwold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-61842C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon strap-end dating to the Early Medieval period, c. 800-900 AD. This object corresponds to Thomas' class A type 5b (split end zoomorphic strap ends of convex form with silver wire inlays demonstrating two longitudinal fields of decoration) It is broadly lenticular in plan and is constructed of a single plate which bifurcates at its upper section to accomodate the strap itself, demonstrating a pointed terminal end and rounded upper edge. At the apex of the strap end isthe remains of the housing for two circular-sectioned copper alloy rivets, th…
Created on: Thursday 6th April 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 20th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Methwold', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-515A1C
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a C-sectioned or L-sectioned pendent loop from a medieval copper alloy purse frame, with both ends broken, one near the terminal. The front face is decorated with a row of niello-inlaid double-line saltires. There are three attachment holes in the rear, one truncated by a break. Ward Perkins 1940, Type A1 or A2. Extant length 87.6mm. c.1450 - c.1500.
Created on: Wednesday 5th April 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 5th April 2017
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Record ID: DOR-4EA60A
Object type: PURSE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment consisting of just under half of a copper-alloy late medieval to early post-medieval purse bar of Ward Perkins Type/Williams Class A1, dating to c.1450-1550. The purse bar is broken where it would have met a square boss and is broadly circular in cross-section. The purse bar has a zoomorphic moulding at one end, now broken through; there would have been another the same at the other end of the missing boss. In the area above the attachment flange there is a geometric double cross-hatched lattice pattern defined by one transverse line at the inner end and two transverse l…
Created on: Wednesday 5th April 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th January 2019
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