Record ID: WAW-7285B4
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Late Early Medieval copper alloy sword pommel, dating from c. AD 900 - 1100. The pommel is broadly triangular in shape and has a hollow interior. The lower edges of the pommel convex and open. The outer faces is divided into five lobes, increasing in size from the edges to the centre, each separated from its neighbour by a groove. The central lobe has an oval shaped perforation on the upper face, through which the tang of the sword would have passed. The pommel has traces of a dark green patina, otherwise the surface is abraded. The pommel measures 24.98mm long, 49.36…
Created on: Friday 4th October 2019
Last updated: Monday 7th October 2019
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Record ID: WAW-3AA3C4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Early-Medieval (late 5th to 6th centuries) saucer brooch made from gilded copper alloy. It is sub-circular and has abraded and incomplete edges. There is an incomplete lipped edge which is obliquely angled outwards. The front of the brooch is decorated with high-relief Style I animal motifs that are degenerate and are spiralling around a central undecorated boss. The motifs are formed by triple-stranded curved blocks all within a high-relief border with transverse grooves. The angled rim has a fine linear groove running around the base. The reverse has two incomplete, integr…
Created on: Thursday 19th September 2019
Last updated: Thursday 19th September 2019
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Record ID: WAW-E63419
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (6th century) cruciform brooch: The terminal of the foot is what remains of the brooch, and this is damaged by one side edge being folded to cover some of the outer face. The foot is semi-circular with a circular perforation on either side. The perforations are enclosed within a scroll which leaves an undecorated sub-triangular panel. Above this portion of the foot, there is a rectangular frame with a fine, high-relief frame within. The frames border four rectangular blocks. Above this design the brooch is broken, but not recently. The reverse of the brooch is undeaorat…
Created on: Monday 10th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd October 2019
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Record ID: WAW-861BB0
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (11th century) harness fitting: harness link. The copper alloy cheek piece consists of an arm terminating with an incomplete loop. The arm is a D-shaped in section, and has a swollen terminal with a break. The break is not recent. The loop is a lozenge shape with an oval perforation. The frame has a shallow knop at the upper and lower corners. The surface of the fitting is heavily abraded and has a matte red-brown surface. It measures 40.47mm long, 20.98mm wide and 5.17mm thick. It weighs 8.39g. The cheek piece is described as a harness link as identified…
Created on: Friday 11th January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 4th March 2021
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Record ID: WAW-10781B
Object type: COMB
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon c. 5th to 12th century) bone comb fragment: The portion of the comb which remains is one side edge and a short portion of the teeth element of a comb. The side edge of the comb is sub-rectangular with slightly tapering outer corners, the tapering occurs in plan and in depth towards the upper edge. Protruding and integral to the interior of the side is the body of the comb. The body has traces of teeth on the upper and lower edge, all but one of the teeth are broken. The teeth on the upper edge have a tooth gauge of 5 per cm, and the teeth on the lower ed…
Created on: Wednesday 12th December 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2018
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Record ID: WAW-7500F8
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval silver penny of Coenwulf of Mercia (796-821), minted by Wihtred in an East Anglian mint, probably Ipswich (North 372; Cn 109; Naismith E12.7). Ref: North 1994: 95; Naismith 2011. The edges are crumpled, folded and incomplete. The reverse design is most similar to Naismith 12.7d with annulets instead of pellets within the cental box.
Created on: Friday 5th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 19th October 2018
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Record ID: WAW-410444
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Early-Medieval (late 5th to 6th centuries) saucer brooch made from gilded copper alloy. It is sub-circular and has abraded and incomplete edges. There is an incomplete lipped edge which is obliquely angled outwards. The front of the brooch is decorated with high-relief Style I animal motifs that are degenerate and are spiralling around a central undecorated boss. The motifs are formed by double-stranded curved blocks all within a high-relief border with transverse grooves. The angled rim has a fine linear groove running around the centre. The brooch appears to have a circular pe…
Created on: Wednesday 15th August 2018
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
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Record ID: WAW-17C39A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (c. AD 400 to 600) Small-Long Brooch: The cast copper alloy brooch is incomplete, only the head-plate remains which has a flat semi-circular knops on the sides and upper edges. The bow protrudes from the lower edge, and it is a 'C' shape in profile and is an oval in section. The lower edge of the bow is broken, but not recently. The reverse of the headplate has a central, perforated vertical lug, which is incomplete. The brooch has a well-developed grey-green patina. It measures 34.93mm long, 31.89mm wide, 8.99mm thick and weighs 9.43g. The brooch da…
Created on: Monday 13th August 2018
Last updated: Thursday 18th October 2018
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Record ID: WAW-B11F93
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early-Medieval (c. AD 500 - c. AD 600) radiate-headed brooch: The copper alloy cast brooch is incomplete, only the head plate and a fragment of the bow remains. The head plate is semi-circular with five equi-distant, integral, knops on the outside edge. The knops have a double-stranded linear groove at the base. The outer face is decorated with a plain border within which there are three spiral motifs. The reverse of the head plate is has two integral, vertical, perforated lugs with traces of iron corrosion. Protruding from the lower edge of the head plate is a narrowed, integral b…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th March 2018
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Record ID: WAW-5DDA5E
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast silver fragment of unidentified function. It comprises a slightly convex, sub-rectangular rod of rectangular cross-section, one end of which is lost to a break and the other end terminating in what appears to be a moulded animal head with a rounded projection, forming a broken edge. Both faces of the artefact are decorated with three rows of low-relief semi-circlesm with a low-relief ring on the head-shaped terminal, perhaps representing an eye.
Created on: Tuesday 29th August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 16th March 2023
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Record ID: WAW-CCA159
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (10th to 11th century) buckle: The copper alloy buckle is D-shaped with a narrowed strap bar. The apex, on the outer face is decorated with three punched ring-and-dot impressions. The pin is curled around the strap bar and tapers to a blunt point. The surface of the buckle has a mid grey-green coloured patina. It measures 14.12mm long, 17.92mm wide, and weighs 1.73g. The buckle dates to the 10th to 11th centuries. There are two similar on the database, one from Lincolnshire, the other Norfolk (LIN-85C5D2 and NMS-3653C1).
Created on: Monday 17th July 2017
Last updated: Monday 17th July 2017
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Record ID: WAW-CC0EEF
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (8th to mid 9th century) pin: The copper alloy pin has much of the shank missing, but the head and a short portion of the shank remains. The pin head is polyhedral, and is slender in profile, with its width being greater than its thickness. The upper and lower corners of the side edges are faceted. Every face of the pin head is decorated with ring and dot motifs, executed with a ring cutter, with the exception of the upper face which has a double-stranded obliquely angled groove. At the junction of the base of the head and the shank there is a collar, from which protrud…
Created on: Monday 17th July 2017
Last updated: Monday 17th July 2017
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Record ID: WAW-E03FEE
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early-Medieval (late 8th and 10th centuries) copper-alloy strap end: in plan the strap end is an elongated oval with rounded terminals and is composed of two plates. The tip is elongated and on the upper plate it is undecorated at the very tip, and then has two thick S-shapes which mirror each other. The body of the strap end is decorated with an indistinguishable design. The other terminal of the strap end divides into the two plates in profile and has broken edges so the two rivet holes on each plate are broken. The surface of the strap end has a mottled incomplete mid to dark gr…
Created on: Wednesday 12th April 2017
Last updated: Thursday 4th January 2018
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Record ID: WAW-CE26BB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (late 5th to 6th centuries) saucer brooch: The copper alloy brooch is circular in plan, although the edges are heavily abraded. The original edge is not visible, but a fragment, in profile, reveals the edge has a small lip which is obliquely angled outwards. The outer face of the brooch is decorated with a central thick annulet with a finer annulet without. Radiating from this fine annulet there are four lozenges in high-relief equi-distant from each other. Between two lozenges there is a rectangular platform, between the others are curvaceous strands forming almost a q…
Created on: Monday 16th January 2017
Last updated: Monday 8th October 2018
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Record ID: WAW-C0DC1D
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (11th century) stirrup-strap mount: The cast copper alloy mount is a sub rectangle on the lower half and the upper half is triangular with the side edges and tip having undulating edges due to the curved beasts and protruding lobes. The decoration appears to be inscribed on the upper portion. The lower portion is not clear and may have been decorated. The upper tip has a circular rivet hole. The lower edge has two smaller rivet holes. The reverse of the mount is undecorated and has, along the lower edge, a shallow flange at a right-angle to the mount. The surface …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd January 2017
Last updated: Friday 20th December 2019
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Record ID: WAW-4B27D1
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (11th century) stirrup-strap mount: The cast copper alloy mount is a sub asymmetrical pentagon in plan, the sides are slightly convex. The tip has a small circular perforation in the centre and at the side edge there is a small integral knop. The lower edge is narrowed and has two circular perforations along it which are filled with the remains of iron rivets. The mount is decorated with a finely incised linear design. The design consists of two beasts beneath the pendant lobe and with a triangular outline on the lower half. The reverse of the mount is undecorated a…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 21st December 2016
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Record ID: WAW-6FB0FC
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (11th century) stirrup strap mount: The copper alloy mount is sub-trapezoid with rounded upper corners and an integral protrusion extending from the centre of the upper edge. The protrusion is a slender arm which is D-shaped in section and terminates with a narrowed perforated lug. The lug has traces of an iron rivet. The lower edge of the mount, in each corner, has incomplete circular perforations. The outer face of the mount has cast decoration in the form of broad shoulders which may be beasts forming a border. There is a central tree which is not clear. The reverse …
Created on: Sunday 19th June 2016
Last updated: Thursday 4th August 2016
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Record ID: WAW-B6DBDF
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (11thcentury) incomplete stirrup-strap mount: The cast copper alloy mount is a sub asymmetrical pentagon in plan. The sides are slightly tapering which are undulating, the upper edge is broken and has an incomplete rivet hole. The lower edge is a straight edge, which is possibly broken, but not recently. The mount is decorated with two low-relief circular motifs, similar to a spiral which is interconnected by two parallel grooves. The surface is heavily abraded with traces of a dark green patina. The reverse is flat and undecorated. It measures 29.39mm long, 26.56mm wid…
Created on: Monday 11th April 2016
Last updated: Monday 6th June 2016
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Record ID: WAW-FF2E4D
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete bead, which originally was probably a biconical shape. The bead is made from rolled sheet metal which has transverse ribs on the exterior with a wider, undecorated central strip. The interior of the bead is undecorated. A portion of the bead is missing, running the length of the bead. The broken edges look to have occurred recently.
Created on: Monday 21st March 2016
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
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Record ID: WAW-72A863
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (c. mid 5th to late 7th century) knife blade: The knife blade and a portion of the tang remains, but it has broken into two towards the mid point. At this break there appears to be a small portion of the blade missing. The blade is an elongated triangle in section, wedge-shaped. The upper edge of the blade is straight. The cutting edge is corroded, but is convex and towards the tip tapers up to the upper edge. The opposite terminal tapers to form the tang. It is off-set on the upper and lower edge, is a slender oval in section and then is broken, but not recently. Th…
Created on: Friday 19th February 2016
Last updated: Friday 19th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Studley area.', grid reference and parish protected.