Record ID: WILT-B3ACF6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A circular copper alloy mount or possible pendant ornament of possible Early Early-Medieval date (c.500-750), with an openwork triskele design at the centre, each arm supported by a narrow projection from the surround. At the cetre of the triskele is a small circular depression. The object measures 64mm in diameter and varies in thickness between 0.8mm and 1.2mm, being thickest at the centre and thinning towards the edges, which are slightly convex from the front and concave from the back. It weighs 20.6g. To the reverse there are no signs of attachment. Kevin Leahy and Helen Geak…
Created on: Friday 15th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-1DBB42
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy button brooch of Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (c. AD 450 - c. AD 550), missing its pin (althoguh there is a large amount of iron corrosion around the pin lug to the reverse). In plan, the brooch is circular and has an upturned rim giving the plate the depth of 3.68mm. The rim, with a few slight knocks, flares outwards at an angle of about 135°.The upper surface of the brooch is decorated with a central chip-carved anthropomorphic forward facing mask. The 'helmet' (or possibly hair) is formed of a wide and rather triangular crescent. The eyebrows a…
Created on: Tuesday 27th March 2012
Last updated: Friday 13th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-9AB1A4
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early-Medieval (500-700) cast copper alloy pyramidal mount with some edge damage. It measures 7.54mm high and 16.94x15.43mm at the base. It weighs 4.1g. The mount is hollow with a single integral attachment bar (3.09mm wide) from the centre of one edge to its opposite. It is square in cross-section, rising to a point at the apex. Surrounding the base is a thickened ric.1mm wide. The mount is apparently plain. Pyramidal mounts may have adorned belts, scabbards, sword harness etc (see MacGregor & Bollick, 1993, 'Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections', BAR 230, p.210). …
Created on: Tuesday 28th June 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chiseldon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-082DB4
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Early-Medieval (11th century) copper alloy stirrup strap mount of Williams Class A, Type 5. It is missing part of the apex, broken across the piercing. The stirrup strap-mount has a Type A (Common right angle) flange 8.25mm deep and one of two iron rivets is in situ in the rivet holes just above. The mount measures 42.04x26.56mm and weighs 20.62g. The mount is pentagonal in basic shape and has the engraved decoration on an originally smooth surface. Often surface wear and pitting obstructs much of the decoration, as is the case in this example. A lozenge shape is …
Created on: Monday 28th March 2011
Last updated: Saturday 20th June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chiseldon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-20EDF4
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Early-Medieval (11th century) copper alloy Stirrup Strap Mount of Williams' Class A, Type 9, depicting a human mask. It stands 43.59mm in height, is max.31.57mm wide and weighs 25.67g. To the reverse is an angled flange extending 10.05mm. The flange has a right angle cut where each corner should be. The original patina has been lost in places, especially on prominent areas such as the nose and chin. The pointed oval eyes are within a squarish surround formed by the cheeks and nose. Loss of patina on the chin obscures the mouth. There is a rivet hole 3.2mm in diameter either side …
Created on: Tuesday 29th September 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 16th December 2015
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Record ID: WILT-0E77F7
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle/ Late Early Medieval (750-1050) copper alloy strap-end of Thomas' Class B Type 1, slightly tapering shaft with wedge-shaped split end and zoomorphic terminal. It measures 44.86mm in length, is 9.49mm wide (max) and 5.62mm wide (min). It weighs 5.07g. The split end and shaft are plain, except for a double-rib moulding behind the zoomorphic terminal and again half way between this and the split end, creating three segements. The split end segment has an incised line flanking either long edge with tiny transverse incised lines between. The split end has a rivet hole in each corner…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd June 2009
Last updated: Sunday 23rd March 2014
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Record ID: WILT-FA1544
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy Early-Medieval/ Medieval zoomorphic belt- casket- or book-hasp, complete. It is 35.24mm in length with the reverse mostly flat (although the surface is uneven in places). It has moulded decoration tonthe other side and is max.8.75mm wide and max.5.19mm thick. It weighs 5.25g. One end is forked while the other is rounded and pierced. The rounded end (6.61mm wide) is about half the thickness of the rest of the object (2.90mm) and flat in section. The piercing is 2.26mm in diameter. Between this and a rivet hole at the centre of the object (now filled with ?concretion) are…
Created on: Monday 22nd June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-E84E30
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Early-Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) copper alloy gilt horse harness pendant, measuring 37.04x(max)4.77x1.82mm and weighing 5.42g. The loop is turned through 90° and the pendant depicts a pair of drooping pointed-oval leaves with tendrils turning inwards below and outwards above (just under the loop). The leaves are decorated with horizontal grooves within a curving groove flanking the edge. The tendrils are also decorate with curving grooves, tracing their shape. Between the outward-turning tendrils, and joining them, is a double horizontal groove. Three vertical grooves exten…
Created on: Monday 16th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-A07CB5
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Early-Medieval green glass bead in the shape of a 5-armed star with terracotta-coloured (probably glass) tips. It is c.12x12mm. Object mounted so not possible to weigh. Bead seen in the past by Margaret Guido. Comparable to one from Wallingford in the Ashmolean Museum. 5th century in date.
Created on: Thursday 1st November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-BAE094
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of Middle Early-Medieval/ Late Early-Medieval copper alloy strap-end of Thomas Class B Type 1 or 2. It consists of the zoomorphic terminal and part of the parallel sided shaft. The fragment measures 20.1mm in incomplete length, is 6.2mm wide and 5mm thick. It weighs 3.61g. The break is relatively recent. The zoomorphic terminal has a long flat nose and steep brow ridge with two circular indentations below, for eyes. Behind this are two elongated D-shaped ears, the centres slightly hollowed. Hinton (1990) suggests this type develops in the late 8th/ early 9th century and conti…
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2006
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2014
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Record ID: WILT-A74EA1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Secondary series sceatta, 12mm in diameter, weighing 0.93g (14.2gn) and with a die axis of 6. Date: c.720+ Ref: as North 113, Metcalf Series O, type 40. [b.e.e.]
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: WILT-030603
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Late Early-Medieval strap-end, triangular in shape and missing its attachment end. Its present length is 27.8mm and max 11.4mm wide. The break is rough and the strap end appears to have bent upwards and snapped - possibly a recent plough-break. The underside is undecorated but pitted. The other side has a single deep groove either side of which are three crescent-shapes (rather like upturned Us), another being at the top of the central groove, just below the break. At the bottom is a less-deep groove in a V shape. From the tip of the strap end extends a 4.4mm …
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2006
Last updated: Sunday 23rd March 2014
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Record ID: WILT-E14271
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Published
an early-medieval penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), Light Coinage (c.765-92), mint: East Anglia (probably Ipswich); moneyer: Eadnoth (runic inscription); North 336/2; Chick 165. Ref: North 1994: 91; Chick 2010. The coin has a large flan 19mm in diameter and weighs 1.24g. The coin has a crack running almost all the way across the face.
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2005
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chiseldon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-322238
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Early-Medieval copper alloy stirrup strap mount of Williams' Class A, Type 8 (1997). It is 48mm long and max.28mm wide. It is a sub-triangular mount with a large zoomorphic head terminal at the apex and smaller heads projecting downwards and slightly inwards either side of the base. These smaller heads are slightly different in shape, possibly through wear, one fo them having a sharp pointed nose while the other is more rounded. Much of the patina is missing of the whole object, and on these two smaller heads the remains of two elongated eyes and pointed ears can opnly just be s…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd November 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 16th December 2015
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Record ID: WILT-F90D22
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable early Early-Medieval copper alloy hanging bowl escutcheon, missing the tip of its hooked end. It is 37mm long, weighs 3.38g and is slightly curving in profile. In shape it is rather like a long-necked bird. The breast is 14mm wide, narrowing to 7mm where a slightly forked tail 4mm long extends. It has a 1mm diameter rivet hole at the centre and just below the end of the body. The body itself is slightly raised (2.5mm thick compared with 1.5mm on the wings flanking it) and is triangular within the breast area, being 5mm wide and 17mm long, narrowing to a point just above the ri…
Created on: Monday 8th November 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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