Record ID: SOM-D468DC
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy incomplete probable buckle frame. Probably early high Medieval, possibly Early Medieval in date. The frame appears to have originally been D-shaped and single looped although it is now bent and distorted and the strap bar is worn and broken in the centre. The outer edge widens slightly towards the centre and is flat in cross section but angled downwards from the inner to the outer edge. At the centre of the loop is a thick triangular boss with a central groove making a pin rest. The outer edge and sides of the loop are covered in regularly spaced transverse incised lines.…
Created on: Thursday 2nd January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 2nd January 2020
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Record ID: SOM-221D45
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval silver penny of Athelstan I of East Anglia (c.825-c.845), Portrait type, short cross pattee with a wedge in each angle reverse (new variant), minted by Monn, probably at Ipswich, c.827-830 AD, North (1994:103) 436var. The coin is damaged with c.15-20% of the outer circle missing due to an old break to one side. The reverse type on this coin is similar to those on the non portrait types north 441 and 445 (BMC 6).
Created on: Friday 8th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 27th June 2013
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