Record ID: SWYOR-2FB099
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A broken and incomplete silver Early Medieval (AD 800 - 950) Trewhiddle style strap end of Thomas Class A, Type 1axiv, depicting two animals with entwined bodies. It is sub-rectangular in shape with gently convex sides that taper towards the terminal, now lost, along with the lower part of the plate. The attachment end is split to take a strap, and pierced for the addition of two rivets. One rivet survives. It is silver and has a round flat head, and a square sectioned shank. The shape of the split end is lobed around these rivets and the edges are slightly damaged. The central …
Created on: Tuesday 12th February 2019
Last updated: Friday 11th October 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-2FFE70
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Early Medieval pin, dating from AD 720 - 850. It has a globular head with a flattened top and a slight collar before the shank. The head is decorated with ten ring and dot motifs. The shank is circular in section and 2.2mm in diameter. The lower end is missing. The break is patinated. The pin is 34.9mm long, 9.3mm diameter and 4.3g. Compare pins from Flixborough (2009), especially Type 131, number 295 and 296 on page 50. Compare also SF-E19596 and NLM-66889C.
Created on: Friday 27th April 2018
Last updated: Sunday 27th November 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-7652C6
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Early Medieval strap end of Thomas Class A, Type 1, dating from AD 750 - 950. It is a tapering plate with a rounded attachment end, pierced by two rivet holes (now incomplete). A palmette design fills the attachment end, and then there is a small central panel which contains a Trewhiddle style animal in relief, with possible traces of niello in the recesses. The closed end is a zoomorphic moulded snout with prominent bulbous eyes, and between this and the central panel, is a moulded area with two motifs side by side, perhaps ornate and large ears.The metal has a smooth …
Created on: Wednesday 20th April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-2ED160
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable Early Medieval stylus dating from AD 600 - 1200, but most likely to be from AD 700 - 900. Only the eraser and small length of shaft survive. The eraser is flat and triangular. It measures 17.8mm long, 10.3mm wide and 1.3mm thick. The shaft is circular in cross-section and has a diameter of 3.3mm. There is possibly a very faint moulded collar between the eraser and the shaft. The rest of the stylus is missing and the break is patinated. The object is 38mm long, 10.3mm wide and 3.3mm thick. 2.13g. A complate example on the PAS database is LIN-F3576C. Styli are also discuss…
Created on: Tuesday 16th February 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 16th February 2016
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Record ID: SWYOR-2E5F08
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy early Medieval annular brooch dating perhaps from the late 6th or 7th century AD. The frame is D shaped in cross-section and is decorated with transverse grooves on the front face only, round the whole frame. There is a constriction for the pin attachment. This is flanked by additional decorative features in the form of figure-of-eight shaped flattened terminals on each side of the constriction. These are decorated with a ring-and-dot motif on each lobe, and may have been intended as rudimentary animal heads (compare, for example, YORYM-84D7D3). The frame has traces of …
Created on: Tuesday 16th February 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 26th September 2018
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Record ID: SWYOR-8E2A99
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early Medieval silver coin; a cut halfpenny of Edward the Confessor (1042 - 1066), Pacx type with short cross reverse (1042-44; North 814). Mint: probably York; moneyer: probably Unolf. The coin is 17.5mm long, 8.3mm wide and 0.5mm thick. 0.41g. The short cross reverse is not illustrated in North, but examples can be seen on these websites: https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=28539 https://live.bruun-rasmussen.dk/m/lots/D0049DA56314 See also SCBI 18 (Copenhagen) no. 867 (shown on EMC under 1018.0867).
Created on: Wednesday 29th July 2015
Last updated: Monday 2nd November 2015
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Record ID: SWYOR-1158AD
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Early Medieval coin; a penny of Edward the Confessor (1042 - 1066), Pyramids type (North 831l; BMC xv) dating c.1065 - 1066. Moneyer: Arkentill (Earcil); mint: York Diameter: 18mm diameter, Thickness: 1.1mm weight: 1.31g.
Created on: Monday 11th May 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 12th May 2015
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Record ID: SWYOR-5CE8F1
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy and copper alloy probably weight of Early Medieval date, about AD 800 - 1000. The object is bi-conical and is made of lead alloy with an embedded piece of copper alloy through the centre. The copper alloy forms a domed cap at one end, and is only visible as a small circle at the other. The weight is 21mm tall, and 20.1mm diameter. At a mass of 36.32g, it could represent one and a half postulated Scandinavian units of 24.4 ± 0.8g (Kruse 1992, cited in NMS-E00012). The object could possibly be a gaming piece. DENO-650DB1 notes that: "weights and gaming pieces of this ty…
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2015
Last updated: Thursday 19th February 2015
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Record ID: SWYOR-4E75E6
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval girdle hanger dating from AD 450 - 600. Only the top of the shaft and the suspension loops survives. The incomplete loop is at 90 degrees to the plane of the shaft. The top of the rectangular shaft is moulded with a square thicker panel, then an panel which is faceted so it is triangular in section, and then a (possibly zoomorphic) moulding. The rest of the shaft is thinner (2.4mm thick) and is decorated with stamped or punched annulets along each edge. The breaks are patinated. The girdle hanger is 43.5mm long, 9.2mm wide and 6.7mm thick. 6.42g. It has a well develo…
Created on: Friday 6th February 2015
Last updated: Friday 6th February 2015
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Record ID: SWYOR-ECDE40
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy two-dimensional brooch in the form of a bird, either a cockerel or a bird of prey. It is either Early Medieval in date, about AD 1000 - 1100, or Medieval, perhaps c. 1350-1500. The bird is depicted in profile facing left. Corrosion has damaged the front of the brooch and obscured many details. The head has a crest (or comb) with vertical ridges on it. There are hints of a transverse moulding across the neck (perhaps like the brooches on page 265 of Egan and Pritchard). The U shaped body has a wing projecting upwards above it. This is fan-shaped and has radiating ridg…
Created on: Monday 15th December 2014
Last updated: Friday 23rd November 2018
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Record ID: SWYOR-64EC05
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval Anglo-Scandinavian cast copper-alloy pendant with devolved Ringerike style decoration, dating it to the 11th century. The pendant is lozenge-shaped and has inlaid (niello?), zoomorphic and openwork decoration. The top corner is the suspension mechanism; a copper alloy bar is held by two projecting lugs to form a hinge. The pendant is essentially a fleur-de-lis shape, pointing downwards, but the side feathers are depicted as beasts with open jaws, biting their own tails. The side corners terminate in trefoil shapes. The lower corner is the oval central feather of the f…
Created on: Thursday 9th October 2014
Last updated: Sunday 27th November 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-8EFFF2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Early Medieval (probably florid) cruciform brooch dating from AD 475 - 570. Only a fragment of the foot of the brooch survives; the flat area below the bow. It is decorated with two transverse bands in strong relief above double raised arches, probably the eyebrows of the horse head found on the foot of cruciform brooches. On the reverse projects a flange of metal; the remains of the catchplate. Unusually, and casting some doubt on the identification, the catchplate is not parallel with the sides of the brooch. The edges are all damaged and worn, making the original s…
Created on: Monday 10th February 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 5th May 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-747ED0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content for the brooch fragment of 89% with copper, lead, gold and tin also detected; it weighs 3.51 grams. The fragment consists of the foot-plate of a miniature square-headed brooch; height, 35mm (surviving); width, 24mm. In the centre is a hollow-sided, lozenge-shaped panel enclosed by a border ridge, which is asymmetrically decorated with zoomorphic elements of Salin's Style I including two limbs and a ribbon-like body. The foot-plate tapers to a long, animal-head terminal with punched, circu…
Created on: Tuesday 11th December 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Cave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-A68304
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy mount with unusual perforated projections on the reverse. The mount is broken and it is estimated that about half survives. The shape appears to be a long oval with a circular area in the centre and rounded terminals. The mount is a plate of copper alloy, perforated in the centre of the circular area, across which the plate has broken. The front is decorated with 11 ring and dot motifs; two in the terminal, one at the start of the terminal, and the rest along the edges. Two opposing motifs where the plate widens in the centre have a second ring 1.5mm from the first. On …
Created on: Tuesday 14th August 2012
Last updated: Saturday 23rd May 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-08BB80
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy hooked tag of Early Medieval date. The tag is rectangular with a broken hook projecting from the centre of one end. The plate tapers slightly towards the hook. The corners of the opposite end are broken. They probably once projected into sewing loops. The plate is decorated with deeply incised lines (perhaps chip carved?) which form a egg shaped oval with a central depression. Three lines project from the top of the egg, one vertical, and two obliquely to the sides. These bend downwards half way along. The whole design is reminiscent of Roman vulva mounts. The metal is …
Created on: Tuesday 19th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 30th June 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-4F0408
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Fragment of cast copper alloy Early Medieval brooch, either a cruciform or a small-long type dating from the 5th or 6th century. Only part of the lower bow of the brooch survives. There is a tapering flat area beneath the bow, decorated with two transverse grooves. Beneath this is a D shaped sectioned area, also decorated with three transverse grooves, with another flat area below that before the break. Part of the catchplate survives behind the upper flat area. The breaks are completely patinated. The brooch has a grey green patina, with possibly traces of a white metal coating or …
Created on: Friday 10th February 2012
Last updated: Sunday 24th May 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-267615
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy buckle of probably Early Medieval date, about 400 - 720 AD. The buckle frame is oval and the bar does not appear to be recessed or offset. The front of the frame is bevelled. The copper alloy pin survives. It is wrapped round the bar and curves downwards at the pint. It has a collar which is a raised platform decorated with transverse grooves. The plate is a single sheet of copper alloy folded lengthways with a slot for the pin. Both rectangular plates have two rows of three circular holes, one across the middle and one at the attachment end of the plate. The centre hol…
Created on: Wednesday 10th August 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 9th April 2014
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Record ID: SWYOR-287442
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy buckle probably dating from the Early Medieval period, most probably from 600 - 750 AD. The buckle has a D-shaped frame with a significantly expanded outer edge. This tapers as it curves round smoothly to the straight bar which is round in section and very slightly recessed. The outer edge is a rounded D shaped in section. There is no decoration and no trace of animal head terminals at the ends of the bar. There is a smooth light green patina on the inside of the loop, but the outer faces have a patchy pale green and red colour. This buckle is similar to examples in Mac…
Created on: Tuesday 17th May 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 9th April 2014
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Record ID: SWYOR-DBEDF7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper alloy, probably a mount with two rivets still in place. The object is rectangular in plan and curved in section, with two separate thin wire copper alloy rivets surviving. The ends of the mount are probably old breaks. It has no visible decoration. It is believed to be Early Medieval in date because it is very similar to other mounts believed to be Early Medieval: SWYOR-7CAAE7 and SWYOR-7CD8D7. Its function is unknown but it could have been part of binding, maybe from a shield.
Created on: Thursday 7th April 2011
Last updated: Saturday 12th July 2014
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Record ID: SWYOR-D9AAB5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Early Medieval strap end which is broken into three pieces. This is one sheet from a strap end made from two pieces of sheet metal. This is unusual for the Early Medieval period when most strap ends were cast with the attachment end dividing into two plates. The sheet has the typical tapering oval shape of a 9th century strap end. There are two copper alloy rivets at the attachment end. The front is decorated with ring and dot motifs, with the dot often being a hole through the sheet. There are two rows of five motifs, with a single extra motif in the middle at the clos…
Created on: Thursday 7th April 2011
Last updated: Saturday 12th July 2014
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