Record ID: SOM-A2F363
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early-medieval copper-alloy strap-end, classified as Thomas's (2003, 2) Class A, Type 1 (Trewhiddle style), slightly damaged at the attachment end. This would date the artefact to around the 9th century AD. The strap-end is flat in profile. The plate expands from a width of 10.0mm the attachment end to a maximum width of 13.5mm at the base of the split. From this point it tapers consistently towards an animal head terminal (W.: 6.8mm). The upper half of the split attachment end survives intact, pierced twice, though neither rivet survives. It has also been bent upwards. The lowe…
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Thursday 19th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chedzoy CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-A91323
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Early Medieval cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of uncertain class dating to the 11th century. The mount has five lobes with a central circular piercing at the centre. Moulded lines radiate from the centre to the junctions of the lobes and form six sections. The reverse is plain and undecorated. The bottom of the item curves back to form a flange at an angle of approximately 90 degrees giving an L-shaped profile. At the centre of the flange is a circular perforation, presumably for a rivet. Length: 39.5mm Width 38.5mm; Thickness: 2.5mm. The mount appears to be an unc…
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Sunday 23rd April 2017
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Record ID: NMS-A8F2D6
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Jar rim sherd of Middle Saxon pimply Ipswich ware pottery. West 1963 Group I Type C. Weight 16g. c.720 - c.850 AD.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A91A05
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bowl rim sherd of Late Saxon Grimston Thetford ware pottery. Clarke 1970, Type 1/6. Weight 37g. c.1000 - c.1100.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 25th April 2014
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Record ID: NMS-A94071
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two sherds of Late Saxon Thetford-type ware pottery, jar rim, diameter 160mm and sagging basal, weight 63g, c.850 - c.1100. Found <1m apart.
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Sunday 8th March 2015
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Record ID: SOM-A3C7D6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy button brooch of early-medieval date (5th - 6th century AD), of Class C. This example is incomplete in so far as its iron pin been lost to corrosion; a trace of corrosion product is present adjacent to one of the lugs (now so abraded that one cannot distinguish the pin lug from catch-plate). The rim is upturned (H.: 3.2mm) and very slightly flared. The upper surface is decorated with a central moulded anthropomorphic face-mask viewed straight on within a line border. The helmet is formed a pair of nested peltaic outlines. The eyebrows and nose are formed of a single T-s…
Created on: Friday 25th April 2014
Last updated: Friday 9th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Pawlett CP', grid reference and parish protected.