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Record ID: BERK-0732F1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Early-Medieval small-long brooch dating from the early 5th to 6th century AD. The brooch has a square head decorated with punched dots around its outer edges within a linear border. The bow is short, curved and undecorated. Below the bow is a elongated, sub-rectangular bar which was either unevenly cast or has a great deal of wear on one side. The foot of the brooch is rounded, and again, lopsided. Both elements of the lower section of the brooch have punched dot decoration around the outer edges. The reverse of the brooch retains a single cast …
Created on: Friday 13th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 13th April 2018
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Record ID: BERK-06ED81
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Early-Medieval radiate-headed brooch, dating to the 6th century AD. Only the head plate and a fragment of the bow remains. The head plate is semi-circular with seven equidistant, integral projections / tabs on the outside edge. Tabs one, four and seven are sub-rectangular and solid where as the intervening tabes are triangular with circular apertures within and moulded, rounded cells on the peaks - these are hollow but retain traces of a white substance, possibly a paste or a coral insert. All of the tabs have moulded horizontal and/or vertical linear de…
Created on: Friday 13th April 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th January 2023
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Record ID: BERK-F7CE12
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete early-medeival Secondary Phase early silver penny (sceat) of 'Facing Head' and related types (BMC type 30a) dating to c. AD 720-30. Ref: Gannon 2013: 130-2; pl 31 714-8; Naismith 2017: 77,86.
Obverse: 'Woden head', with long beard, facing; saltires flanking beard. Reverse: Two males facing holding standards, pellets around. One of the men has a very long moustache and both figures appear helmeted.
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 27th June 2019
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Record ID: BERK-7C44A2
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A near-complete silver hooked tag of early medieval date. It has a circular plate with incised ornament on the upper surface, consisting of a diagonal expanding arm cross with the arms terminating at 1, 4, 7 and 11 o'clock. Within each of the arms are two lines stretching across the width as decoration. There are two attachment holes near the upper part of the plate, located at 1 and 11 o'clock, within the terminals of the arms. Within the quarters formed by the cross are simple incised triangles with their peaks pointing towards the centre of the fastener
Located at the bottom o…
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 24th August 2021
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This findspot is known as 'Gosford and Water Eaton CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BERK-008282
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete and hardly worn silver early-medieval penny of Edward the Confessor (AD 1042-1066), pointed helmet type dating to the period AD 1053-1056. Struck by the moneyer Brihtwold in Oxford. The obverse shows a bearded bust facing right, wearing a pointed helmet. His right arm and hand are shown holding a sceptre fleury. The reverse shows a short cross voided with each arm ending in three small crescents, facing to the border. North N825. BMC vii.
Created on: Wednesday 7th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 13th March 2018
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Record ID: BERK-5D332D
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy dress or possible hair pin probably of early medieval date (c. AD 800-1066). The pin has a long, circular sectioned shank with a point at one end and an expanded and flatted terminal at the head. At the terminal end the shank expands into a flattened V-shaped neck with a rolled terminal. The central section of the shank has a differennt patins to the rest of the pin and may be evidence of wear.
It is possible that this pin is from a large annular brooch but equally it shares similarities with roll-headed pins of early medieval date. A similar example i…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2018
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Record ID: BERK-71D8C4
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete biconical gold spacer bead from an early medieval necklace, made from beaded a single coiled length of beaded wire, the ends tapering to a small hole for threading. The bead retains soil.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd January 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Cumnor', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BERK-A4B6B3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy strap end dating to the early medieval period. The strap end is a Thomas Class A1 with zoomorphic snout, flat squared ears and a central panel bearing an interlaced creature in the Trewhiddle style. A curved panel immediately beneath the two rivets holes (now broken across their width) appears to bear a fruit-like motif, but it is partly obscured by wear and a bend in the terminal. The reverse of the strap end is flat, plain and undecorated. This style of strap end is dated to the 9th century AD, however their use probably spans a few decades either side.
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 20th December 2017
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Record ID: BERK-125807
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy open plate, possibly a buckle or other fitting / fastening plate of probable late early-medieval date. The plate is flat in profile and the remaining section is sub-square in plan. The openwork elements consist of four triangles and one oblong while the broken section also appears to have had triangular apertures. The edge of the frame is slightly curved, and a projecting knop is extant on one corner. All of the openwork elements have sets of two or three crudely incised lines as decoration, located at the edges / corners of the apertures. The decoratio…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 13th December 2017
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Record ID: BERK-2F04A1
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval copper alloy contemporary copy of a sceat of Secondary Phase Series H (type 49) probably minted in Hamwic (Saxon Southampton), dating c. 720-40. Ref: Gannon 2013: pl.20, nos. 460-8. North N103.
Created on: Monday 20th November 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2017
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Record ID: BERK-9AE538
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE 2017 T1032. NOT TREASURE. Description: An almost-complete heavily silvered and gilded copper-alloy disc brooch of Anglo-Saxon date. The brooch has a wide plain rim within which is the decorative field. Four flat-topped circular bosses, each with thick silvering or an applied sheet of very thin silver, are set around the central quatrefoil, which consists of four U-shaped cells around a central circular cell. Each of the four U-shaped cells curves very slightly in the same clockwise direction, giving the effect of a clockwise movement to the motif. There is no trace of the…
Created on: Monday 13th November 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 20th September 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Leafield CP', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: BERK-5D194B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small and incomplete cast copper alloy strap end dating to the early-medieval period (c. AD 750-950). The strap end is oval in plan and has a worn and vaguely zoomorphic snout. The central panel has a zoomorphic beast and punched dots, of which the form is not immediately discernable. At the attachment end of the strap end one rivet remains while the other rivet hole is broken. The reverse is plain and undecorated.
Created on: Friday 10th November 2017
Last updated: Friday 10th November 2017
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Record ID: BERK-91CABE
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy strap fitting of uncertain date. The strap fitting consists of two sub-circular plates joined by a short neck and each decorated with a single ring-and-dot motif. From the underside project three rectangular sectioned arms which are joined at the bottom, forming a double-loop. Presumably this is where a strap element would have been secured.
Much of the original patina is now lost and the metal is purplish-green colour. In style it echoes Roman military strap fastenings of the 4th century, but the flimsy nature of the object, and its patina, suggests it…
Created on: Wednesday 13th September 2017
Last updated: Monday 22nd July 2019
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Record ID: BERK-91660D
Object type: STAFF
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy staff terminal or sceptre head of late Early-medieval or medieval date. The staff head is broadly oval in plan and is now distorted after tis time in the ploughsoil. This hollow socketed oval terminal head has openwork decoration consisting of three equal-armed crosses located around the centre of the head, with an openwork rectangle near the head of terminal and the socket between the crosses. The peak of the teminal is domed. The socket is now jagged and broken but is separated from the decorative openwork elements by a moulded collar running circumf…
Created on: Wednesday 13th September 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2017
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Record ID: BERK-2C1C8E
Object type: SPEAR
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete iron spear of early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date. The spearhead has a long, slender leaf-shaped blade with low midrib visible on either side creating a lozengiform cross section. The tip of the spear and the blade edges are damaged and worn. At the base of the spear blade an open circular sectioned socket expands from the flat of the blade. The open socket only survives to a length of c. 36mm although the characteristic side split is discernible. The original socket would have been a quarter to one-fifth of the length of the blade (Swanton 1974:10). Swanton continues that…
Created on: Friday 8th September 2017
Last updated: Monday 29th January 2018
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Record ID: BERK-1536EB
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete silver early-medieval penny of Edward the Confessor (AD 1042-1066), dating to the period AD 1059-1062. Hammer Cross type, struck by the moneyer Brandr at Wallingford. North N828. Ref: North 1994: 180-1.
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2017
Last updated: Sunday 5th July 2020
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This findspot is known as 'Aston Sandford', grid reference and parish protected.
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Record ID: BERK-FAC28D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Anglo-Saxon silver sceatta, Series E (Secondary Variety A), struck AD 715-735. Mint and moneyer unknown.
Created on: Wednesday 6th September 2017
Last updated: Thursday 18th February 2021
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Record ID: BERK-C68845
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy strap end dating to the early medieval period. The strap end is a Thomas Class A1 with zoomorphic snout, flat rounded ears and a central panel bearing an interlaced creature in the Trewhiddle style. A curved panel immediately beneath the two iron rivets (one retained) appears to bear a palm or fruit-like motif, but it is partly obscured by iron corrosion from the rivets. Traces of a niello inlay can be seen within the main panel. The reverse of the strap end is flat, plain and undecorated. This style of strap end is dated to the 9th century AD, however the…
Created on: Thursday 10th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd August 2017
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Record ID: BERK-C38256
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy strap end dating to the early medieval period. The strap end features a zoomorphic terminal with rounded ears and sharp slanted eyes, defined by a raised V-shaped ridge that forms the head of the beast. A spiral is located in the centre of this V-shaped head. The main section of the strap end is decorated with two vertically arrange panels of three spirals; a second panel is noted above the first but the strap end is broken beyond this point. The outer edges of the strap end are shaped with alternating bifid sections between rounded edges , an unusual f…
Created on: Thursday 10th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd August 2017
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Record ID: BERK-DEF40D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but cracked silver penny of early medieval date, issued by Harthacnut during his joint reign with Harold I. Jewel Cross type issued between spring and autumn 1036. Die was cut in Winchester but the condition of the coin in the image makes reading the mint difficult. The moneyer is possibly Saewine. North N809 / Hild. A var. a. This coin is listed as very rare in North (1994).
Created on: Tuesday 18th July 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 18th July 2017
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