Record ID: KENT-BF7605
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), Heavy Coinage (c.792-6), mint: Canterbury, moneyer: Deimund (Chick 222; North 321). Refs: Chick 2010, plate 25; North 1994, 89. The coin is slightly abraded around the edge (on obverse 12 o'clock to 3 o'clock). Measurements: 18.94mm in diameter, 0.83and 1.3g in weight
Created on: Friday 16th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-BEBBD4
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Body sherd of Middle Saxon Ipswich ware pottery, fine sandy, weight 16g, early 8th - mid 9th century.
Created on: Friday 16th March 2018
Last updated: Friday 16th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-BE9983
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of an Early Saxon copper alloy Florid Cruciform brooch, the central part of the head-plate, broken around edges and across a large, incomplete, central rectangular panel (extant length 20mm, width 21mm) with raised rim containing counter-relief Style I zoomorphic decoration. Remains of single pin lug on reverse, broken across perforation. Worn ancient breaks and a more recent granular break at one end. Extant length 22mm. Extant width 30mm. Weighs 6.94g. Leeds and Pocock's (1971) Group V. Cf. similar examples from Happisburgh (NMS-2F5BD6) and Wereham (HER 4412). Late 6th/earl…
Created on: Friday 16th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-BE016B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Early Saxon copper alloy Small Long brooch, irregular break across the pitted remains of the bow, transverse rib at upper end of foot, rectangular panel, three transverse ribs before foot with adhering molten material on face and reverse, broken and molten remains of the catchplate on the reverse. Extant length 36mm. Width at foot 12.5mm. Weighs 4.68g. c.480 - c.530 AD.
Created on: Friday 16th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: KENT-BDF44E
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hardly worn Early-Meideval gold tremissis of 'national civic' series origininating in Northern Frankia (modern France/Belguim), possibly minted at Silvanectis (Senlis, France) by the moneyer 'BABBA' or 'BVBBA', c. AD600. Obverse: A degraded pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust, facing right. Inscription: "BABBA" (Retrograde) or 'BVBBA' Reverse: Globe and Cross. Incription: 'SILVATACAN' (starting at 6 o'clock) Measurements: Weight: 1.34g, Diameter 13.67mm, Thickness: 0.88mm Discussion: An almost identical coin to this exam…
Created on: Friday 16th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chislet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-BDE8F9
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval silver sceat of an eclectic Secondary Phase group related to Series K and Series L (Gannon group e; Type 12/34, now type 106). Ref: Gannon 2013: plate 24, no 553. Obverse: Cowled figure standing facing with square shoulders, cross-hatched tabard and holding long cross either side, all within crescent boat. Reverse: Pellet cross on void Celtic cross encompassing four rosettes.
Created on: Friday 16th March 2018
Last updated: Sunday 5th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Oving', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-BDE7B4
Object type: POT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Eight sherds of Late Saxon Thetford-type pottery, two jar rim (both sandwich fired) and six body, weight 58g, mid 9th - 11th century.
Created on: Friday 16th March 2018
Last updated: Friday 16th March 2018
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Record ID: NMS-BDD7F7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, bent and slightly molten Early Saxon copper alloy bow brooch (small-long or cruciform). The upper edge and sides of the headplate are missing. The short triangular-sectioned bow has facets at the top and base. Incomplete rectangular footplate. Ancient breaks. On the reverse there are the corroded remains of the iron pin around a single pin lug and molten remains of the catchplate. Extant length 39.5mm. Extant width 19mm. Weight 10.45g. c.480 - c.530 AD.
Created on: Friday 16th March 2018
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-BA6115
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete late early-medieval sheet-gold finger-ring. It consists of a flat pointed-oval bezel tapering into the flat shoulders of the hoop, both now flattened and one bent at a sharp angle. Each shoulder terminates in a jagged transverse break. Punched decoration consists of a border of opposed triangles running around the edge of the bezel and converging to run in two rows along each shoulder. Dimensions: Approximate extant length 36.5mm, maximum width 8.1mm, minimum width 2.8mm, thickness 1mm, weight 1.8g. Discussion: Finger rings of this form are typical o…
Created on: Friday 16th March 2018
Last updated: Friday 11th September 2020
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