Record ID: LIN-0C9F3C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Saxon copper alloy strap end, Thomas type A, dating to the ninth-century. The strap end is tongue-shaped and has a bifurcated terminal. The terminal contains two rivet holes, both of which are now empty. The opposite end is in the form of a moulded animal head with two large ears at the top, and a shallow recessed area on either side of the head representing the eyes. A small slit is possibly seen across the front which would represent the mouth. On the forehead is a worn incised motif now in the form of the letter 'W'. The body is decorated with a sub-rectangular panel on w…
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
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Record ID: SF-0B244F
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Early Medieval (late Anglo-Saxon) strap end. The upper part has a triangular shape in plan and a rectangular cross section with an internal split to receive the strap for which a copper-alloy rivet is still in situ. The middle is narrower and rectangular in shape with a rectangular cross section. The lower part is moulded to form a three dimensional animal head with protruding ears, a flat forehead with bevelled sides, a long snout and the mouth created by a slot in the lower terminal edge. It can be classified as Thomas Class B (2003 pp. 4-5). It dates to the 9th to…
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 6th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rendlesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-0A5573
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Cast D-shaped buckle with a thickened rounded and expanded outer edge, bevelled behind, and with devolved beast head terminals gripping the ends of a narrowed strap bar. A pair of broad shallow grooves appear centrally on the outer edge, probably serving as a pin rest. Abraded. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 1000-1100. Length: 16.7mm, Height: 17.9mm, Thickness: 4.5mm, Weight: 3.49gms
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2018
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Record ID: SOM-09817D
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early-medieval silver penny of Cnut (1016-1035), Short cross type (North 790) dating to c. AD 1030-1036, uncertain mint and moneyer. Ref: North 1994: 168. The coin is very worn with little detail visible beyond the general type design and small portions of the obverse and reverse inscriptions.
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 4th July 2019
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Record ID: SF-0883ED
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) girdle hanger fragment. The fragment appears to be the base of the shank and top of the ward terminal. it is rectangular in plan and cross-section. There is a central iron rivet through the base of the shank. The ward fragment is very worn and may have been of Felder Type B, girdle hangers with closed wards, although too little survives to be sure. Both faces of the fragment are decorated with two longitudinal parallel lines of punched annulets. If this fragment is Felder Type B it would be phase FA2, wichi is Ad 480-550 in date in Penn-B…
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 6th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rendlesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-0837E0
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early-medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), Light Coinage (c.765-92), mint: Canterbury, moneyer: Udd, obverse: Chick 103 (North 261), reverse: Chick 87-8 (North 200). Refs: Chick 2010: pl. 14 (obverse), pl. 12 (reverse). ​The coin is somewhat worn, particularly on the reverse, of which only the central portion is visible, with the outer esges of the coin face having worn away.
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2018
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Record ID: SF-068C3D
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) linked pin with discoidal head and fragment of shaft surviving. The fragment remaining of the shaft has a circular cross-section with a rectangular expansion where it meets the lower edge of the head. The disc head has a flat back face while the front face is decorated with chip carved interlace consisting of an expanding cross with central small disc and with a very small centre dot recess. The four quadrants are each symmetrically filled with similar profiled animal heads; the two lower quadrants have the animals pointed ear in…
Created on: Thursday 18th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 6th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rendlesham', grid reference and parish protected.