Record ID: IOW-30F002
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a Late Early-Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) to Early Medieval cast copper-alloy harness link (c. 1000-c. 1100). This object is one loop of a fitting. It is convex at the front and flat at the rear. The loop is oval in plan and has three evenly spaced knopped protrusions. The bar is 'D'-shaped in cross-section, flat at the rear. It has a boss, sub-circular in plan and flat at the rear. Just beyond the boss there is an old break.. This artefact has no patina and the surfaces are a drab reddish brown. Length: 29.70mm; width: 19.68mm; thickness: 7.02mm. Weight: 6.97g. Th…
Created on: Friday 15th March 2013
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-227533
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a copper alloy circular gilded mount with interlace work of Early Early-Medieval date (AD 600 - AD 700). The mount would have been about 68mm in diameter, when complete. It is about 2.5mm thick and weighs 10.41g. Two small portions of the central part survive and these are decorated with three-stranded Style II animal interlace (part of a foot or paw appears to be present). This representation of an animal was enclosed by a circle of closely spaced repetitive punch marks which are lozenge-shaped and each has a central pellet. The circumferential beaded rim is slightly th…
Created on: Thursday 4th August 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 4th July 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wootton Bassett', grid reference and parish protected.