Record ID: CAMHER-9C28E3
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver finial in the form of a pine cone, broken off at the base, where it would have joined onto another element. It has been suggested that this may be a knop from a spoon. If this is so, the best comparison known to me is a spoon with enamelled bowl in the British Museum, P&E 1899, 12-9,3, inscribed AVE MARIA, which has been dated to the late 15th Century. The knop on this spoon is more rounded in form and is engraved with rings of regular lines rather than with the much cruder hatching seen on this object. However this object may not be a knop but may have served as some other kin…
Created on: Tuesday 12th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weston Colville', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-F0DC51
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval silver terminal of twelfth century date. The terminal has a multi-faceted head best described as being a cube with all of the corners cut off. The cube has a height of 8.12mm and the top of the cube is 8.41mm x 8.21mm. The vertical sides of the cube taper inwards giving base of the cube the dimensions 6.50mm x 6.61mm. The eight flat triangular facets at the corners of the cube are simply decorated by an incised boarder and plain centre. The four vertical and single top lozengiform faces have identical relief decoration of four lozenges set together with the points meeting…
Created on: Monday 20th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 21st January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Offord Cluny and Offord D'Arcy', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-BFDA45
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Tiny fragment of gilded silver, decorated with a double spiral ridge, both ridges emerging at the same point from a flat-topped pellet at the centre. There are V-shaped grooves between the ridges, which vary in width somewhat; the fragment appears to be very worn. Beyond the spiral there is an unclear pattern of parallel ridges which are damaged, perhaps cut through at right angles. One edge is original, curving around the spiral and then turning out very slightly to a corner which projects a little. The breaks are neither particularly fresh nor particularly worn. The rev…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd October 2013
Last updated: Friday 3rd October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whaddon Parish Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-35CE86
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval silver mount or brooch. The object is formed of a quatrefoil frame, comprised of four lobes with incisions on each lobe to give the appearance of petals. One side of the lobes is flatter, with a straight edge, which could indicate the constriction for a pin, or could be due to wear. The reverse is flat, and the object is worn. The quatrefoil design was a popular motif in medieval dress fittings and jewellery, and is seen on many examples of surviving brooches from the period. For examples of the quatrefoil in medieval brooches see, 2006 T386 (PAS-376815), NMS-73B556 and …
Created on: Monday 25th November 2013
Last updated: Thursday 4th December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-516617
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content for the mercury gilded fragment of 97%, the remainder being copper, gold and lead. The fragment weighs 3.67 grams. The find consists of an ovoid fragment of thick sheet metal projecting to a point at one end and with incised repoussé decoration; length, 32.5mm; width, 20mm. At the opposite end is a gable-shaped tab with a grooved, raised edge enclosing a wavy foliate motif and separated by a curved line of bead-and-reel (possibly the edge of a roundel or arcade) from a J-shaped scroll be…
Created on: Thursday 3rd July 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-949254
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A fragment of unidentified silver artefact. The fragment is almost rectangular, but the two longer cut edges are slightly oblique, forming in fact a parallelogram. The upper surface is smooth and generally flat but very slightly undulating, as if hammered. Each of the short original edges has two raised integrally cast pellets, one at each corner. These pellets have a diameter of 4 to 4.5mm, sloping sides and a flat top; they look rather like imitation rivet heads; one is set within a very slightly lowered square. The reverse surface is undecorated and undulates a little …
Created on: Thursday 26th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-4DB246
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver object inlaid with niello. It is a long oval in shape and made from two components, a sheet silver base and a heavy hollow-cast upper part. The upper part is D-shaped in cross-section, and has relief, engraved and inlaid decoration. To either end is an animal head, both identical. The snouts have narrow rounded ends with a pair of dots for nostrils; these may originally have been set with glass pellets, similar to but smaller than those in the eyes. There are niello-inlaid grooves dividing the nostrils from each other and the nose from the rest of the snout. The ey…
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2012
Last updated: Monday 22nd June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North-West Essex', grid reference and parish protected.