Record ID: CAM-4F7020
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy middle Saxon double-hooked dress fastener dating from the 8th to early 9th century. This clasp is a Class M double sharp-hooked clasp (see Read, B. 2008 p.40). The artefact has a central area 33.18mm long with a diameter of 10.19mm. The surface of this part of the artefact is decorated with shallow transverse and lateral lines that form tiny squares c.1.68mm x 1.68mm. A circular perforation, of 5.34mm diameter, is present just off centre through this part of the artefact. At either end of the central area the artefact narrows to a circular cross-section of 4.89mm diamet…
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 2010
Last updated: Friday 30th April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Wratting Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-414ED6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval silver halfpenny of St Edmund Memorial type (North 485 although type same as North 483/1 listed for penny only), probably belonging to the middle or late phase of minting (c. AD905-20), mint: East Anglia, no moneyer listed. Ref: North 1994: 109; Naismith 2017: 290-2. Dimentions: Weight 0.48g, Diameter 13.15mm, Thickness 0.79mm Die Axis 9 o'Clock. Obverse shows, Cross Pattee Obverse Legend reads: SCEADI, with Cross Pattee initial mark. Reverse shows, Capital A with chevron. Reverse legend reads: SCEAD, with Cross Pattee initial mark. The use of the…
Created on: Thursday 10th February 2011
Last updated: Monday 16th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carlton Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-DB6745
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: City of Peterborough
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy hooked clothing tag of Early-Medieval to early Medieval date. This tag is likely to be a Read, B. Early Medieval Class A, Type 1, probably in the form of two attachment holes but this is uncertain due to the incomplete state of this artefact. The tag is made of sheet metal and is triangular in shape. At least part of the top of the hooked tag plate is missing, the left hand side corner, as well as the majority of the hook. The top edge of the tag seems to have probably been scalloped of at least two semicircular curves. At the centre of this edge, at the poi…
Created on: Wednesday 14th July 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 25th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cambridgeshire Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-DB7733
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: City of Peterborough
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three copper-alloy fragments of an Anglo-Saxon tweezers that form one half of the tweezers. The finder has glued the three fragments together. The artefact has an in-turned nib which extends for 2.41mm. The arm has a wide flare by the nib, 13.53mm wide, and then tapers to 3.88mm at a length of 42.25mm. The arm then rises up and continues for a further length of 5.14mm, giving a total length for the object of 48.50mm, before bending over in a smooth curve to form the top loop of the tweezers. The second arm of the artefact has broken off 4.93mm from the top of the loop. This loop forms…
Created on: Wednesday 14th July 2010
Last updated: Friday 23rd September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cambridgeshire Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-DBD542
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: City of Peterborough
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a copper-alloy artefact that is rectangular in shape and made from sheet metal. The object is 25.83mm wide, 29.38mm long, 0.64mm thick and weighs 2.7g. The upper surface has a boarder of parallel faint lines, which when looked at under a magnifying glass seem to be formed of tiny incised zigzag lines. These lines are only c.0.60mm wide and are set 1.34mm apart. The area inside this boarder is decorated with a criss-cross design of five parallel lines, of faint zigzag design in each direction, set diagonally to the boarder. In two of the corners, positioned exactly on the inner…
Created on: Wednesday 14th July 2010
Last updated: Friday 23rd September 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cambridgeshire Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-786B05
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver early medieval sceat of series R, Metcalf variety 8 (c.730-50). Weight 1.04g, diameter 12.55mm, thickness 1.74mm.
Created on: Thursday 2nd June 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-C5FB31
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy saucer brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date. The circular brooch has a diameter of 33.91mm and geometric chip-carved decoration. At the centre is a raised pellet bordered by a raised concentric circle and hexagon. The hexagon forms the inner side of two overlaid triangles set opposite to each other which interlock. The two triangles are formed of two parallel raised lines and make a Star of David. At the edge of the design is a raised circular border and within this are short raised lines which give the impression of an interrupted smaller concentric circle. The raised rim …
Created on: Sunday 11th September 2011
Last updated: Monday 15th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-685FB4
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 9th century Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy strap-end with dark patina. The strap-end probably fits into Thomas's Class A. The overall shape is oval with a flat edge at the split end, and tapers down to the terminal end; the sides are convex. The split at the end of the strap-end is 2.07mm wide and 11.22mm deep. The back of the artefact is undecorated. At the top of the split end are two rivet holes, both at the front and back, which have an approximate diameter of 2.70mm. From between the two rivet holes stems a trilobate palmette in relief that forms the first field, which ends with a se…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 19th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Abbots Ripton Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-1FA695
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon strap end of Thomas's Class A, type 1 or 2 (Thomas, G. 2003 & 2004, 'The Finds Research Group AD700-1700 - Datasheet No. 32 & 33). The strap end is joined as one piece for an approximate length of 25.79mm before it splits to allow space for the strap to fit between. The gap between the two sheets is 1.51mm. In the top corners on both of the separated sheets are rivet holes with a diameter of 1.67. The metal around the rivet holes protrudes slightly from the line of the edge of the rest of the strap end. A raised and curved 'V' shaped line that forms a h…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd December 2009
Last updated: Thursday 7th March 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-851477
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very worn small-long brooch with missing foot. The headplate is essentially square, with double cut-outs in each corner forming T-shaped knobs. Most of the two side knobs is missing but enough survives of the top knob to be able to reconstruct the shape; remarkably, a line of dot-and-crescent stamps survives along the upper edge of this knob. In the centre of the lower edge of the headplate, continuing the line of the bow, is a raised square panel with a line of similar stamps forming a border around (not on) its sides and upper edge. On the reverse is what appears to be a double p…
Created on: Thursday 23rd July 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-017890
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Single piece hooked tag. Single sheet triangular shaped, with the point having been bent back to form the hook. In the two corners furthest from the hook are single rivet/attachment holes 1.47 in diameter. The shortest edge has a central V-shaped notch. No surface decoration is visible. Read classification and sub-classification: Early-Medieval Class A single sharp-hooked clasp, type 1. See Read, B., 2008 Hooked-Clasps and Eyes Langport : Portcullis Publishing, pp.7, no.14.
Created on: Wednesday 29th July 2009
Last updated: Monday 23rd February 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-83FB53
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One-piece incomplete copper-alloy strap-end. Single sheet folded widthways, oval shaped, tappering to a rounded point. The upper surface has punched ring and dot decoration, which is less visible in some areas due to the presence of patches of a bright green patina and how deeply it had been punched into the surface. A single central ring and dot is clearly visible and seems to be partnered by another, which is less visible, 7.46mm towards the tip of the strap end. There may have been more ring and dot decoration spaced with a gap of 3.90mm along the edge, each with a partner on the …
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-289D51
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sheet copper-alloy single piece hooked tag, clothing fastener. The body, or decoration plate, of the tag is circular with two semicircles protruding from the plate opposite and to either side of the hook. The attachment holes have been punched or cut through these semicircles and have a diameter of 1.76mm. Decoration in the central plate consists of a 1.66mm wide plain border, impressed circle that has a diameter of 10.83mm within which is a smaller impressed circle of 6.57mm. Both of these circles have been in filled with impressed lines creating the image in the larger circle o…
Created on: Wednesday 12th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carlton Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-28E6A5
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sheet copper-alloy single piece hooked tag, clothing fastener. The body, or decoration plate, of the tag is triangular, tapering at the point into the hook, which has broken off just after the area where it starts to curve into the hook. The two attachment holes are set in the corners, within the border of decoration, of the widest part of the tag and have a diameter of c.2.64mm. Decoration consists of a boarder of closely set punched dots. Within the boarder, below the attachment holes, a raised boss that has been created by punching through from the reverse, this boss is surrou…
Created on: Wednesday 12th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carlton Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-2912F4
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sheet copper-alloy single piece hooked tag, clothing fastener. The body, or decoration plate, of the tag is triangular tapering at the point into the hook, which has broken off close to the decoration plate. The triangular plate has a border of closely set punched dots within which, in the corners of widest part of the tag are the attachment holes. The attachment holes have a diameter of 2.20mm. One of the attachment holes does not respect the decorative border but cuts through the line of punched dots. On the shortest edge of the plate, above the attachment holes, are incised p…
Created on: Wednesday 12th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carlton Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-2982F2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy disc brooch of early 5th - early 6th century date. The pin and c. ¼ of the edge of the brooch is missing. The surface is decorated with a central punched single ring and dot. Around this central motif are three double ring and dot motifs c. 3.41mm from the brooch edge, the outer rings of which are fainter than the inner ring and dot. Surface damage and corrosion make it difficult to determine but there may have been a faint single ring and dot, or single ring without dot, decoration around the edge, between each of the three double ring and dot motifs. The brooch has a…
Created on: Wednesday 12th August 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 10th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Western Colville Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-301681
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy 11th century stirrup mount (terminal). It is of the decorated animal head type of stirrup mount, see Mills, N. 2001 (p.78, item V220). The Mount has a concave underside and a projecting lower flange. Dimensions: length 33.24mm, width 11.41mm, height 12.17mm, weight 11.46g.
Created on: Wednesday 12th August 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 15th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weston Colville Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-303527
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy 11th century stirrup mount (terminal). It is of the decorated animal head type of stirrup mount, see Mills, N. 2001 (p.78, item V220). The Mount has a concave underside and a projecting lower flange. Dimensions: length 26.15mm, width 12.76mm, height 13.09mm, weight 11.34g.
Created on: Wednesday 12th August 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 15th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weston Colville Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-ADF2C7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Anglo-Saxon small-long brooch probably of 6th century date. The remains of this brooch consist of a damaged trapezoidal or rectangular head plate, flat semicircular side and head knobs, and an arched bow. There are no wings to the head plate. The brooch has broken off at the point where the bow would have joined the foot plate. Behind the head plate an integral pin lug has broken off half way across the lug. The top and side knobs have all suffered damage. A brooch of the same size but in a better state of preservation is CAM-2012C2. For similar examples see Mil…
Created on: Tuesday 18th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-6EBDC6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Headplate from a gilded copper-alloy great square-headed brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date. The inner panel is an undecorated rectangle surrounded on four sides by a raised frame; there is some scoring across the left-hand half of the lower edge of this frame. The most obvious component of the relief decoration on the second panel is a pair of round eyes with conjoined eyebrows above and individual frames beneath, probably intended as a human mask. To either side of these eyes is a single Style I animal in relief; these animals run around the corners to fill the rest of the space in th…
Created on: Tuesday 27th October 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sawtry Area', grid reference and parish protected.