Record ID: BH-457E23
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount, dating from the Early-Medieval to Medieval periods. The piece is of flat-section and sub-pentagonal in plan, having an apex loop and three projecting lobes on either side. The upper surface bears an incised design, picked out in niello and broadly symmetrical. The central element of this design is a saltire, each of the two upper ends of which terminates in a downward-facing zoomorphic head. These heads extend along the outer sides of the mount, from the mid point downwards, with the upper projecting lobe forming the brow and the lower representi…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2014
Last updated: Sunday 27th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bolnhurst and Keysoe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-44ED75
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy strap-end, dating from the Late Early-Medieval period. Beneath the strap-end's split attachment end, the two sides bow outwards, reaching a maximum width halfway down, after which they converge towards the basal terminal. The lower two thirds of the strap-end are solid; in the upper third it bifurcates, creating a central gap flanked above and below by two plates of equal form. A pair of rivet holes is located a short distance down from the scalloped top side of the attachment, with opposing holes in the lower plate. An incised, pelta-shaped panel of decoration is lo…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2014
Last updated: Monday 16th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ravensden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-447082
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval silver sceat, VERNUS group (Gannon variety d), c.700-10. See Gannon 2013 (SCBI 63 British Museum Anglo-Saxon Coins I, pl. 8. nos 177-8). Diameter: 11.3mm; thickness: 1.4mm; weight: 1.1g.
Created on: Monday 13th January 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Adstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-41BC73
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early medieval silver sceat, Series A2 (type 2a), mint: Kent, c.685-690. Diameter: 11.7mm; thickness: 1.4mm; weight: 1.21g.
Created on: Monday 13th January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 2nd October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Drayton Beauchamp', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-4187C4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval silver sceat, Series R2 (Metcalf sub-variety 12), mint: East Anglia (probably Ipswich), c.705-10. Diameter: 10.5mm; thickness: 1.4mm; weight: 1.14g.
Created on: Monday 13th January 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Drayton Beauchamp', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-415955
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy sword pommel of early medieval date, probably Viking era. The pommel consists of 5 lobes with the central lobe being the largest. The three central lobes are hollow. The lobes on either side of the centre diminish in size. The recesses at each end indicate that this was a two-part pommel and there appears to be encrustation between lobes 1 and 2 perhaps from binding material that held together the two parts. The base is flat. It is interesting to note that the three central lobes are much more separated than most examples and individually hollow rather than a singl…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 15th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-40E815
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy stirrup terminal, dating from the Early-Medieval to Medieval periods. The piece is zoomorphic, taking the form of a three-dimensional representation of the head and neck of a beast. The terminal is roughly semi-cylindrical, with the forward-facing head at the distal end. The animal has a moulded brow ridge, on either side of which is a ring-shaped eye with central pellet. A pair of rounded ears is located between the back of the brow ridge and the top end of the mount, the latter of which is defined by a rim. At the front of the face, the snout angles upwards before …
Created on: Monday 13th January 2014
Last updated: Sunday 27th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Drayton Beauchamp', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-401C01
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end fragment. Cast sub-rectangular openwork plate with twelve rounded apertures evenly distributed either side of a central spine. The decorative scheme gives out at a lightly stepped edge, and the object is bifurcated hence, with part of its divided extent lost at a jagged and possibly recent break. The scheme relates to Anglo-Scandinavian zoomorphic, serpentine or vegetal motifs. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 900-1000. Length: 43.7mm, Width: 19.8mm, Thickness: 4.6mm, Weight: 14.00gms.
Created on: Monday 13th January 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 17th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-3E8D30
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early medieval copper alloy cruciform brooch, dating to AD 450-600. The brooch consists of a square head-plate with irregularly shaped wings on either side. Ontop of the head is a domed knop with moulded collar. The brooch has an arched bow with faceted corners, slightly concave on the back. The brooch is broken below the arched bow. On comparison with other examples the bow would have extened much further, ending in a decorative foot. On the reverse of the head-plate is evidence of an iron spring pin, only reddish-brown corrosion product remains. There is a linear decor…
Created on: Monday 13th January 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 7th July 2015
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NMS-3BEB22
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon lead tongue-shaped strap end, broken across the start of the split end. The front face is decorated in counter-relief with a symmetrical looped motif, a rudimentarily foliar design, similar to, but more simplified than that on a strap end from Lincolnshire (LIN-D17C3C). The reverse, entirely covered with longitudinal ribs, is comparable with an example from Sandringham, Norfolk (NMS-54F4CO). Extant length 31mm. Width 28.5mm. 10th century. Field L10
Created on: Monday 13th January 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2016
Spatial data recorded.