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Record ID: CAM-198FF6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon small-long brooch fragment dating to the sixth century AD. The fragment comprises the head plate. The head plate is rectangular in shape with two semi-circular cut outs in each corner giving it a cruciform appearance. It is decorated with a marginal pattern of stamped semi-circles and dots. On the underside of the head plate is a semi-circular lug with circular perforation. Iron corrosion products surround the lug. The fragment measures 22mm in length and 26mm in width. It has a thickness of 9mm.
Created on: Monday 21st May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Weston Colville', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CAM-3E8A56
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval gilded copper alloy button brooch dating from 450-550 AD. The brooch consists of a small saucer shaped disc of copper alloy with a raised rim. The design on the brooch consists of an anthropomorphic face with pronounced eyebrows, nose and frowning mouth encased within a circular barley-twist outline. The back of the brooch has a catchplate missing the catchplate turnover and a very corroded iron pin that is no longer discernable from corrosion products surrounding it. Diameter: 19.53mm thickness: 1.19mm weight: 6.04g
Created on: Monday 1st December 2008
Last updated: Monday 14th November 2011
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Record ID: CAM-09C4B6
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure report from B.M. Ager: The ingot consists of a short, roughly rectangular bar hammered to shape with rounded ends and oblique, parallel-sided section; length, 20 mm; weight, 5 grams.
Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate gold content of 33-38% and silver content of 47-49%, the rest being copper with a trace of lead.
Created on: Friday 16th January 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 4th January 2012
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Record ID: CAM-52B265
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy buckle plate of early Anglo-Saxon date, late sixth or early seventh century. It is of Marzinzik's type II.23b-ii, buckle with triangular copper-alloy plate, and has a triangular aperture in the centre. At each of the three points of the triangle are circular recesses; the recess at the apex of the triangle is slightly larger (c. 12 mm diameter) than the other two (c. 8.5 mm diameter). One of the smaller recesses is filled with a white adhesive, cement or filler; the other two are empty. There is a small detached piece of copper-alloy wire, half of a circle 8.5 mm in dia…
Created on: Tuesday 30th November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Carlton Area', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CAM-274762
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy disc brooch of a type referred to as 'jewelled' or 'keystone garnet'. The brooch is now corroded and the details are hard to see clearly. The edge of the brooch is smooth and undecorated creating a border 4.06mm wide. Next to the border is a narrow groove c.0.68mm wide followed by a band c.0.91mm wide. At the centre of the brooch is a raised field of 9.20mm diameter which is filled with white material. The brooch has a thickness of 4.35mm at the centre over the central raised field, and is 2.55mm thick over the rest of the disc. Surrounding the centra…
Created on: Monday 21st February 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 10th October 2018
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This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CAM-357FC0
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete small silver pin with polyhedral head and incomplete shaft. The head is sub-cuboid, with every corner removed, resulting in four lozengiform faces and a triangular face at each corner. None of the faces are decorated The shaft has a circular cross-section, and tapers smoothly from beneath the head to the very old and worn break; there is no collar.
Dimensions: Surviving length 14.63mm, diameter of shaft at top 2.4mm, diameter of shaft at break 1.6mm. The head measures 5.0mm x 4.7mm in cross-section. Weight 1.11g.
Discussion and Date: Pins with small un…
Created on: Monday 25th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 4th April 2014
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This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CAM-A32F23
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold finger-ring of the Viking period. Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate gold content for the ring of 35-40% and a silver content of 55-60%, the remainder being copper; it weighs 3.84 grams.
The hoop of the ring is made of a lozenge-section rod which tapers to the back where the ends are drawn into wires which overlap and are wound once round each other; diameter, 26 mm (max). Both outer faces are decorated most of the way round with a row of punched circles and there is also a single circle on one of the inner faces next to the knot.…
Created on: Thursday 17th June 2010
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Weston Colville', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CAM-B519C7
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Object Date: 9th century
Description: Hooked tag Small, silver hooked tag with triangular head-plate. Two attachment holes and punched decoration in form of ring-and-dots and a line of simple dots along the middle axis of the object. The hook on the back is intact, if slightly bent. Discussion: Hooked tags are all-purpose fasteners, used to secure small bags or purses and also clothing. They occur in various forms from the late 8th century onwards, but those with triangular head plate seem to become popular only from the 9th century. Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analy…
Created on: Friday 18th June 2010
Last updated: Thursday 17th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Harston', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CAM-628CF0
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Viking ingot. Weight 17.65g, length 34.43mm, width 13.27mm, thickness 6.77mm.
See TAR 2007, p.109, 110, 111, 355, 356, 357 no.s 206 PAS YORYM-C89482 2007T445, no.211 PAS SF-E8A3A6 2007T714 & no.213 PAS NMGW-9C2070, Wales 07.17.
See TAR 2005/6, p.84, 85 & 332-333, no.227 2006T39, no.228 2006T204, no.229 2005T455, no.230 2006T57, no.232 2005T392, no.233 2006T192 & no.234 2005T539.
See TAR 2004, p.75 & 261, fig.100 2004T224, fig.101 2004T471.
See TAR 2003, p.65 & 212, fig.82 2003T293, fig.83 2003T48.
See TAR 2002, p.51, fig.37 2002T116.
See TAR 2001, p.47 fig.6…
Created on: Thursday 25th August 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2017
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This findspot is known as 'Cambridgeshire Area', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CAM-F22CD2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silver-plated copper-alloy contemporary copy of a sceat, Series J (type 85) but in an imitative style (the pellets forming the mouth sloping to the right rather than the left), c.710-25. Die axis is 9 o'clock. Weight is 0.81g, diameter is 11.75mm, thickness is 1.71mm.
Created on: Tuesday 13th September 2011
Last updated: Thursday 1st November 2012
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This findspot is known as 'Huntingdon District Area', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CAM-9CF707
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragmentary early medieval silver penny of Aethelred II (the Unready; 978-1016); CRUX type (N 770; AD 991-997); mint and moneyer uncertain. The orientation of the coin would suggest the surviving reverse inscription STA relates to the moneyer rather than mint.
Created on: Wednesday 6th February 2008
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2013
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Record ID: CAM-9D5C73
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
From the photograph, this appears to be an early Anglo-Saxon small-long brooch.
Created on: Wednesday 6th February 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd June 2016
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Record ID: CAM-9DB8E6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
From the photograph of the front of this object, it is likely to be an ansate brooch of middle to late Anglo-Saxon date (8th to 10th century). Each terminal is slightly flared to a zig-zag end with three V-shaped indentations. The arched bow is rectangular in cross-section. Each of the three elements of the brooch (bow and two terminals) is decorated with a rather crudely engraved diagonal cross, or saltire; on the terminals there is a blind-drilled dot in each of the quarters of the saltire.
Without a photograph of the reverse, to confirm the presence of pin fixings, the identifica…
Created on: Wednesday 6th February 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2013
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Record ID: CAM-371E87
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy openwork domed front plate from a disc brooch, decorated in a fusion of Borre and Jellinge style. The decoration shows a beast with a thin body weaving under and over itself to form a triangular shape, and with the hind foot gripping the foreleg. On the back of the object are the lug and catchplate but the pin is missing. Diameter: 32.25mm, thickness: 1.68mm, weight 7.17g.
Jane Kershaw has identified this as a Scandinavian object, a Jellinge-style disc brooch of Jansson's Type I A1 (Jansson in Arrwidsson 1984). These are decorated with a single profile Jellinge-style a…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd April 2008
Last updated: Monday 5th March 2018
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Record ID: CAM-738545
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon supporting-arm brooch variant with an iron axis bar. Transverse grooves decorate the body of the brooch. The catchplate is missing, as is the pin. Length: 32.29mm, width: 28.96, thickness: 3.99mm, weight: 8.96g.
Supporting-arm brooches were divided into two types by Böhme (1974) which was then summarised in English by Evison (1977). This example fits into Bohme's Typ Mahndorf, with a wider head.
The original version of this record said that there were also transverse lines on "the top which is broken off". It's not clear from the image what was meant by this, …
Created on: Tuesday 29th April 2008
Last updated: Monday 23rd June 2014
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Record ID: CAM-85AAF5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Anglo-Saxon ansate brooch made from copper alloy. The brooch has narrow arms with three knops or ribs at the centre of the bow. There are grooves at the end of each arm forming a V shape with an elongated terminal between. one side of the lug has broken off and the pin is missing but the catchplate is present. Length: 40.13mm, width: 6.26mm, thickness: 3.12mm, weight: 4.82g.
Created on: Wednesday 30th April 2008
Last updated: Monday 13th June 2011
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Record ID: CAM-862A68
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
The find consists of one end of a cigar-shaped ingot of roughly plano-convex section, which has broken across a deep flaw. There is a fresh nick on one side, however caused.
Ingots of similar form are well known from the Viking period, dating mainly from around the late 9th and 10th centuries, e.g. from the Cuerdale Hoard deposited around AD 905-910. They were probably used as bullion in trade and commercial transactions before the introduction of coinage and possibly also sometimes as stock pieces of precious metal for casting into jewellery. Earlier examples sometimes occur, t…
Created on: Monday 12th May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Godmanchester', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CAM-864614
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content for the ring fragment of 90-94%, the rest being copper; it weighs 2.1 grams.
The ring has a flat, sub-circular, slightly convex bezel with narrow stubs of the ends of the hoop on either side; the rest of the hoop is missing; diameter, 16 mm (max); width, 24 mm. The bezel is decorated with a hexagonal border of two rows of punched, back-to-back trapezoid stamps, leaving a plain rib between the rows and enclosing a central cross of similar work with double punches between the arms. The e…
Created on: Monday 12th May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Weston Colville', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CAM-790723
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper alloy brooch, either a small-long or a cruciform, dating to the sixth century AD. The fragment comprises the head plate and a very small portion of the bow. The head plate is rectangular in shape and divided into three panels by two bold grooves running upwards from the edges of the bow to the top of the headplate. The head plate is decorated with ring-and-dot motifs around the side and top edges. A small portion of a semi-circular section bow extends from the headplate. On the underside of the head plate are two semi-circular perforated lugs. These lugs are sur…
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 5th January 2017
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This findspot is known as 'West Wratting', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CAM-20F0D7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo-Saxon small-long brooch, copper alloy, dating to the fifth or sixth century AD. The brooch possesses a rectangular head plate with a slightly raised square central panel. Rectangular expansions extend from the head plate giving it the appearance of being cruciform in shape. on the underside of the head plate is a single semi-circular perforated lug surrounded by some iron corrosion products. The head plate extends to an arched convex section bow. Where the bow meets the foot, there is a rectangular facet. The foot possesses a series of rectangular mouldings and small oval lappets…
Created on: Friday 27th April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Exning', grid reference and parish protected.
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