Record ID: CORN-C166DE
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast gilded silver mount in the form of a hollow, four-sided pyramid. The pyramid has a square base with an integral flat bar, running transversely across the base. Each face is decorated with a punched motif comprising a triangle of three annulets, and the edges between each face with a line of paired dots. Most of the gilding survives on the upper face, and some corrosion product has accumulated in the hollow back of the mount.
Created on: Monday 27th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buckland Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-B431B2
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver scabbard chape. A tapering, blunted triangular chape of composite construction. It comprises a tapering tube of sheet metal forming the chamber of the chape. with three applied longitudinal ribs (one along the centre and one along both angled sides), a horizontal crenellated and ribbed strip at the top on the front, a ribbed horizontal strip at the top on the rear, a ribbed oval framing strip around the base and an irregular (soldered?) infill at the base to seal the chape. The three applied ridges each have two ribbed collars (three ribs) set about a third of the way in from…
Created on: Thursday 7th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Owermoigne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-A7E806
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete silver pyramidal scabbard mount with worn edges. The mount is hollow and almost square in cross-section, with a base measuring 13.5 x 14.6mm; a broken integral attachment bar runs across from the centre of one of the longer edges to its opposite. The breaks are not particularly worn. The sides rise to a small flat square-topped apex on which is a recess inlaid with a chequerboard design of millefiori glass. The design of the millefiori is a central dark (blue or black) square surrounded by a cross of four white squares with further dark squares in the corner…
Created on: Tuesday 14th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 11th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hinton St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.