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Record ID: PAS-755C62
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval finger ring, of stirrup shape. The hoop is slightly distorted and abraded along its edges. The ring is set with a roughly rectangular stone, which is held in place by two claws. The ring is gold, and dates from the 13th century. The stone is blue, and is a sapphire. Surface analysis indicated gold and silver contents of approximately 73–76% and 16–18% respectively, and confirmed the gemstone Dimensions: length 25 mm, width 20 mm It has been published in the Treasure Annual Report 2005/6 (p. 115, no. 403)
Created on: Saturday 10th February 2024
Last updated: Saturday 10th February 2024
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Record ID: PAS-7555B5
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval finger ring of iconographic type.  The bezel is hexagonal and contains a depiction of God the Father holding the figure of Christ on the Cross.  This was the conventional way to portray the Trinity in the late medieval period, though the dove representing the Holy Spirit seems to be absent. The hoop of the ring is twisted.  The twists closest to the bezel are engraved with seven five-petalled flowers and a lupin (?).  The five-petalled flower is a recognised reference to the five wounds of Christ and the number seven may be an allusion to the seven sorro…
Created on: Saturday 10th February 2024
Last updated: Saturday 10th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North of Colchester', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: PAS-751353
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval finger-ring in three fragments, formed of a flat hoop terminating in two clasped hands with scalloped cuffs. The ring carried a rudimentary engraving, which consists of an inscription punctuated by simple stars, circles and foliate motifs. The inscription reads: 'de don co . . '. The inscription is either a corruption of the popular medieval sentiment 'de bon coer' ('of/from good heart') or it signifies the gift of/from a heart (using the noun 'don' meaning 'gift'). The finger-ring is silver-gilt, and dates from the la…
Created on: Saturday 10th February 2024
Last updated: Saturday 10th February 2024
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Record ID: PAS-B995F8
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast copper-alloy strap-slide, c.1150-1400 AD. The slide consists of a single, sub-rectangular loop with a pair of opposed internal sub-triangular projections about a third of the way up the sides of the frame. The frame is rectangular in cross-section. The frame is slightly asymmetrical and measures 12.2 mm long, 14.2 mm wide and 1.6 mm thick. It weighs 0.80 g. Egan and Pritchard (1991, 234) illustrate a number of similar examples, including ref. 1256 and ref. 1259 which they assign to a late 12th to late 14th century date. They note that these strap loops are th…
Created on: Friday 13th March 2020
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cheddar CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-C43BBB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A twisted, but complete medieval copper-alloy probable buckle plate (c. 13th century). The plate is sub-rectangular, and terminates in a protruding zoomorphic head. It is folded at the frame end; the frame is missing. There is a central cut out for the pin. The fold is short to the reverse, truncated at the first of two rivet holes; it also tapers to its end on that face, giving it a trapezoidal shape. The second central rivet hole on the plate is located towards the terminal. While the rivet connecting the folds survives in situ, the second is missing. At the terminal the plate narro…
Created on: Friday 1st November 2019
Last updated: Saturday 23rd November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-2F9CAB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and damaged cast copper-alloy single-looped buckle frame of medieval date. The artefact is an irregular D-shape with prominent protruding outer edge such that it tends towards the sub-trapezoidal. The sides of the frame have been bent; one is truncated, a loss that extends to the bar. The surviving bar, consisting of the majority of the original bar, has been bent back on itself; the pin is missing. The bar is narrowed and offset. The protrusion forms the pin rest and features a shallow central pin groove along its width. It terminates with truncated, straightened cur…
Created on: Friday 25th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 29th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sixpenny Handley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-2F7696
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy swivel strap fitting of medieval date c. 1200-1400. The fitting comprises a pair of D-shaped loops which are connected in such a way that they can each swivel. Each loop has with zoomorphic heads biting a central internal boss. The heads have prominent brows and expanded jaws. One of the bosses has an integral bolt that emerges from the centre of its base, the bolt narrower than the base of the boss. The bolt fits into a large circular perforation which almost fills the boss on the other loop. The metal has a variable mid-green patina and is worn. Similar…
Created on: Friday 25th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sixpenny Handley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-2F5E63
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A broken and incomplete copper-alloy scabbard chape of medieval date, missing its side arms which would have been connected to each other via a perforated terminal loop. The fitting is zoomorphic, representing a winged animal in profile, probably a bird, whose head is at the arm end of the base plate. It was formed from a single plate that has been folded in half. The animal's tail is at the bend. The ends of the plate have been riveted together and are in the shape of the animal's head; the rivet survives and appears to have been made of a different alloy. There is a sub-triangular…
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 7th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage St. Michael CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-86BFBD
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy sub-oval buckle frame dating from the 11th or 12th century. The outer edge and sides sub-triangular in cross-section; the latter develop into moulded devolved animal heads at each end of the bar (beast biting bar type). The bevelled front of the outer edge is decorated with engraved lines, transverse towards the centre, tending towards oblique on the sides. The bar is narrower than the frame and is recessed. The pin is missing but there is a groove to act as a pin rest. Iron corrosion product on both surfaces at the end of one of the sides, around the animal head, is …
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2018
Last updated: Thursday 18th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Berwick St. John CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-75D66D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A worn and corroded copper-alloy strap-fitting of medieval date. The artefact has a sub D-shaped frame with central internal projection from its outer edge. The incurved outer edge effectively consists of a pair of semicircles which converge in this projection which terminates in a slightly expanded knob. The front of the object is bevelled slightly both externally and internally on the front; the reverse is flat. Around the bar part of a sheet plate has been retained; since it is partial the artefact can be considered incomplete, although the frame is an intact component. The plate i…
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage St. Michael CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-72DFB6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper-alloy buckle of the 'gaping-mouth beast' type, complete with its pin (c. 12th century). This buckle is moulded in three dimensions and takes the form of a hollow, open-mouthed animal head which is integrally cast with a frame and bar. The head is sub-circular when viewed from above and a three quarters circle in cross-section. The top of the head is decorated with a central nasal ridge which bifurcates about halfway along the head to turn into ears which continue down the sides of the head to the base. Set in front of the ears are moulded elongated oval eyes which st…
Created on: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 17th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-A21B61
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper-alloy buckle, probably late 12th to 13th century (c. AD 1150 - c. AD 1300). All elements are present and complete; the frame and pin in articulation with the plate. The frame, of Meols type 4, is oval with an offset and recessed bar with slight knops at either end of the bar. Its outer edge is bevelled externally on the front, which is echoed internally on the reverse. At the centre on the front the angled side is interrupted by a rectangular pin rest with central groove. The pin is formed of a thick strip of copper-alloy sheet, and survives in situ wrapped around…
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage St. Michael CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-361A64
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy pin detached from a medieval buckle described as a 'disc-on-pin' type, and classifiable as Redmayne's Type B. The pin is formed of a large central circular plate with protrusions emerging from opposing points. The first of the protrusions is the pin tip, which gradually tapers to a blunted point. The loop, opposite, is slightly recessed on the front and curves back behind the plate, but does not form a closed loop. The front of the plate is highly decorated. It is moulded, with two main wide borders, that at the circumference lower than that within it. They both surroun…
Created on: Thursday 20th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 20th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wimborne St. Giles CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-8CE82B
Object type: CANDLE HOLDER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible copper-alloy candle holder of medieval date with two cups. The object is of one piece, consisting of a stem hammered flat and bent round to form an elongated socket at one end, while the other end expands and bifurcates, developing into two arms which terminate in either cups or holders for rushlights. The arms have rectangular cross-section, and change into a twisted bar towards the cup ends. The cups are formed of flattened tabs with rounded ends curled right round on themselves, both squashed. One of the arms has been twisted round and down and now sits over the sock…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Friday 19th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CDB9D
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete or fragmentary copper-alloy mount of probable medieval to post-medieval date. The mount is flat and has stepped long edges formed of conjoined trapezoids that decrease in size: three such trapezoids survive to form the present object. The smallest trapezoid forms the terminal of the object and is bifurcated at its own terminal. It is also covered in an applied thin white metal sheet, which extends, abraded, into the adjacent trapezoid. On the reverse, at the terminal, is an integral rivet. The object has been curved in profile, and has been bent downwards in particu…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Sunday 7th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CD5E6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy plate, presumably from a strap, of probable medieval date. The plate is broadly rectangular, rounded at the surviving corners, having been abraded, and broken at the other short end where it has been bent upwards slightly as a result of old damage. The front is quite heavily scratched but appears to be undecorated. At the extant corners two integral rivets are present on the reverse. These have hammering marks between them. The object generally has a brown patina. It measures 27.7mm long by 13.5mm wide by 2.1mm thick; it weighs 4.53g
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CCBE2
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy plate almost certainly from a medieval clasp. Half of the plate survives here, following a transverse break at the fold. The plate is sub-rectangular, with no frame recesses at the fold. There is a decoratively shaped attachment end, now slightly damaged but originally with four triangular cut-outs which would have created five knops, including those at the corners. Two knops have been broken off towards one of the corners (old damage). Engraved angled lines at the base of each knop emphasise each protrusion on the front. The front is decorated within a v…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st January 2019
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Record ID: PAS-8CBF8B
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy object of medieval date: probably a mount from a bridle bit of 13th- to 14th-century date. The original form of the artefact would probably have resembled the letter 'B'. What survives is a central sub-trapezoidal plate, from which emerge two truncated arms. The plate is thick and has a circular outward facing knop at each corner of its longest side. This and the two sides perpendicular to it are slightly incurved. The short side is wavy, and consists of the point of a triangle located centrally with small recesses at each side. The triangle is formed of the…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Monday 22nd February 2021
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Record ID: PAS-8CBA7D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy mount of medieval to post-medieval date; its wider function is uncertain, though it is possibly part of a buckle with integral plate. It consists of a flat bar with a trefoilate terminal at one end, distinguished from the bar by a low transverse, flanged ridge. One of the side elements of the trefoil has been broken off. The terminal is pierced to take a rivet; no rivet survives. At the other end of the bar the object expands in a curve to attain a consistent width, at which point the object has been broken in a fairly ragged transverse, old break. The expan…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Friday 5th February 2016
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Record ID: PAS-8CAD4F
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rectangular pierced copper-alloy plate, probably a medieval book clasp of Howsam type A.7. It would have been riveted to an equivalent plate by four rivets, located one towards each corner. The rivets have a circular cross-section, and all four survive in situ, their head flush to the surface of the plate. The plate is cusped to emphasise the corners, by an engraved V shape central at each short end, and smaller V-shaped lines towards the corner on the long edge. There are further, finer engraved lines between these latter, at each corner. There are also suggestions of incised diago…
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 10th January 2019
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