Record ID: SUR-5A0966
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
An elaborate silver head from a Roman hair pin, 21.1mm in length. The form from the base to the tip comprises a conical lower collar, a flattened biconical reel, a large flattened sphere, a large double disc at the midpoint (diameter 9.2mm), a waisted reel, a smaller waisted reel and a conical or pointed acorn-shaped tip. The shaft is broken off at the base of the head. There is damage to the upper section in the form of a pronounced cut which has bent and nearly severed the tip of the pin head. Length 21.1mm, diameter (at widest part) 9.2mm, weight 3.59g.
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd November 2021
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Record ID: SOM-5A7B18
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy medieval single-looped trapezoidal buckle dating to the period c. 1350-1500. The bar is narrowed and the pin is complete. The front of the buckle appears to be folded back over on itself at the outer edge, double thickness, with incurved corners, which is an appearance intended when cast. The front part has a series of six diagonal grooves, between which sits the pin, and a wavy front edge. The sides and bar are thinned by comparison. The object has a green patina. It measures 33.04 mm in length, 28.50 mm in width at the front and 20.3 mm at the strap bar, 4.63 in …
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvediston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5B3282
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy post-medieval double-looped rectangular buckle frame dating to c. 1570-1700. The frame is plain with a notch for the pin at one end, though the pin itself is missing. It has slightly rounded corners. The object has a green patina. The buckle measures 28.50 mm in length, 24.26 mm in width and weighs 6.49 g. A similar example can be found illustrated in Whitehead (2003, 75) no. 459 and given the above date range, though without supporting evidence.
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvediston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5B9A73
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy medieval single-looped buckle of composite type with forked spacer dating to c. 1350 - 1450. The frame is oval, rounded, lipped (with a protruding knop), with a forked spacer. The sheet plates and pin are missing. The front of the frame is bevelled externally; the reverse is flat and covered in diagonal file marks. The prongs of the spacer are rebated after a short length beyond the frame; they narrow along their length, with a significant stepped narrowing at around halfway. The buckle has a green patina. The prongs are 20.10 mm in length, the buckle frame measures …
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvediston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5BAF58
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete medieval cast copper-alloy strap-slide (strap-fitting). The frame is oval to D-shaped, with an integral circular sectioned rivet projecting outwards 2.2mm from the centre of the base, now bent slightly to one side. The sides of the frame are rectangular in cross section, becoming slightly D-shaped on the outer edge, probably due to wear. The frame is 14.6 mm wide, 12.2 mm long including the rivet and 2.4 mm thick, it weighs 0.87 g. There are extensive file marks on all faces. Egan and Pritchard (1991, 230; fig 145) illustrate a very similar example, no. 1232, and su…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
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Record ID: SOM-5C07A1
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval single-looped buckle of composite type with forked spacer dating to c. 1350 - 1450. The buckle is oval, lipped and notched and the pin is in place. One of the forked spacers has broken off close to the frame but the other is intact, albeit now bent outwards. The front of the frame is bevelled externally; the reverse is flat and covered in transverse file marks. The prongs of the spacer are rebated beyond a moulded transverse ridge at the junction of frame and plate; they narrow along their length, with a significant stepped narrowing just beyond the…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvediston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5C35F8
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete medieval cast copper-alloy strap-slide (strap-fitting). The frame is five sided with a wide flat base, sides that are almost parallel but in fact slope outwards very slightly, and an angled peak in the centre of the top bar. The base is rectangular in cross section and the sides and top bar are trapeziodal, the inner sides being wider than the outer. There is a hole through the base of the frame, halfway along and off centre, through which a circular-sectioned rivet projects internally. The frame is 22.9 mm long at the base, widening to 24.4 mm at the top bar. It is 18.7…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
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Record ID: SOM-5C4D90
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy medieval single-looped oval frame dating to c. 1250-1400. On its outer edge there are two shallow, angled knops flanking three transverse grooves; the example can be classified as being of Meols type 8. The bar is narrowed, recessed and offset. The pin is missing; the central groove on the outer edge would have acted as a pin rest. The buckle measures 14.02 mm in length, 15.20 mm in width and weighs 0.87 g. A similar example can be found in Whitehead (2003, 22) no. 92.
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvediston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5CD36E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval buckle plate probably dating from the late 12th to 13th century (c. 1150-1300). The frame is missing, being broken at the hinge loops, while two of the prong-like extensions at the attachment end of the plate are vestigial, and a third has broken through at its attachment hole. The front part of the plate, closest to the hinge end, is rectangular. As implied, the plate then divides into three bars extending towards the attachment end outlining two openwork shapes in the plate. As noted, two of these narrow bars are now broken close to the plate b…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvediston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5CE167
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incmplete medieval cast copper-alloy bar mount (strap-fitting). It comprises a central elongated oval element terminating at one end in a small sub-rectangular, squared off expanded terminal; on the other side there is a worn break from where a similar terminal has been lost. The central element is domed with a concave reverse and convex front, while the surviving terminal is thinner and D-shaped in cross-section. There is an empty, circular rivet hole at the intersection of the surviving terminal and the central circular element. At the other side there is the edge of an incomple…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
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Record ID: SOM-5DB584
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete late early-medieval (to medieval, possibly) copper-alloy mount probably dating from the 11th century. The mount is sub-oval with rounded ends, each with a hole for a rivet; the long edges are angled outwards at their centres. The object is decorated in an abstract Ringerike style with a centrally engraved lozenge outlined by a border which broadly echoes the angles of the lozenge and angled sides. Each terminal is rendered as a trefoil of fleur-de-lis, with small, outcurving side fleurs delineated by engraved lines an a double transverse fillet connecting the side fleurs ar…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 30th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alvediston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5FAA45
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete, but damaged, medieval copper-alloy strap-end dating to c. 1275 to 1400. The strap-end consists of two pieces of copper-alloy sheet forming front and back plates. The sheets are long and trapezoidal; they end in a rounded lobe and then a trefoil- or cross-like shape. These last two terminal elements are separated from each other and from the main body of the strap end by a narrowed waist. The two sheets are fixed together with a copper-alloy rivet in situ, at the lobed terminal. There is another rivet hole through each plate at the opposite (attachment) end, but …
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 2nd November 2018
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Record ID: SF-5A5BF1
Object type: SPEARHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy socketed spearhead dating to the Middle Bronze Age, c. 1550-1250 BC. This example is of Davis' Group 6-'Developed side looped spearheads', probably belonging to the Acton Park or Taunton metalworking phases. The base of the socket is missing along with the edge of one blade wing, but otherwise the spearhead is preserved intact. The socket itself is circular sectioned and extends into the head of the spear for a short distance before becoming solid, retaining most of one socket-loop at its irregularly truncated end. The latter has a broadly lo…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Playford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-5836E6
Object type: CUFF LINK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Post Medieval copper-alloy cuff link, dating to the 18th century. The object consists of two bevelled discs connected by a copper alloy soldered wire, which runs through the attachment loops located at the back of the cufflink buttons. The front of each button is decorated with a raised portrait of a male bust facing left, with long and curly hair (probably a wig), representing Louis XV (AD1710 - AD1774) who was also known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aime). The bust is positioned above an inscription reading L . X . V, all within a raised circular border. The rim …
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Saturday 4th April 2020
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Record ID: PAS-5A8269
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A slightly corroded fragment from a late early-medieval/Anglo-Scandinavian cast copper-alloy cheekpiece (c. 11th century AD). The fragment is formed of a curved Ringerike style animal head and neck in profile, broken through the neck. The cheekpiece is flat and the neck is long and the head is set at roughly right angles to it. On the outer edge of the curve is a recessed protrusion, broadly semicircular with a small off-central knop and a second raised knop towards its back (at the neck end). At the tip of the head is a recurving hook to the upper jaw. Below are three slight, lobed p…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage St. Michael CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-5B678F
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete late early-medieval/Anglo-Scandinavian cast copper-alloy cheekpiece of Williams Type 1 (c. 11th century AD). The only element to have been lost is one of the outcurving zoomorphic side plates, broken where the neck of the creature joined the body of the cheekpiece. The other side plate is intact and is formed of a curved Ringerike style animal head and neck in profile. The plate has a D-shaped cross-section, being curved on the front and flat on the reverse, The beast's neck is long and the head is set at roughly right angles to it. On the outer edge of the curve is a cu…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wimborne St. Giles CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-5C5AB0
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A corroded and incomplete late early-medieval cast copper-alloy harness link (11th century AD). The object consists of a central plate with boss, though one half of the plate beyond the boss, along with its loop, have been lost. The arm is semicircular in cross-section, with a flat reverse. At one end of this is a moulded boss extending either side of the plate. It represents a face, probably zoomorphic rather than anthropomorphic. Just protruding above the plate are a pair of pointed ears. Below the plate is the nose and the lopsided V-shaped mouth. The nose is moulded, triangular, a…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage St. Michael CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-602147
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete late early-medieval cast copper-alloy harness link (c. 11th century AD). The object consists of a central plate with boss; part of one of the terminal loops have been lost. The arms are semicircular in cross-section, with a flat reverse. At what would have been the centre of the complete link there is a low moulded boss with a small knop extending either side of the plate. The boss is solid. The plate terminated at each end in a loop; as noted, one is now vestigial. The other is circular and features three rounded knops, one at each cardinal point. The object is a red-br…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wimborne St. Giles CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-608E5B
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete late early-medieval cast copper-alloy harness link (c. 11th century AD). The object would have consisted of a central circular plate with boss from which four arms would have emerged, one at each cardinal point; one arm has been lost completely, while another arm now only has a vestigial loop. Integral with the central circle is a high domed boss which is hollow backed. The arms are semicircular in cross-section, with a flat reverse. The surviving loops are oval and bevelled externally. They feature three rounded knops, one at each cardinal point. The object is a red-…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-5A20E8
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete Early Medieval silver strap-end dating to c. AD 750-950. The strap-end is tongue-shaped with a pointed terminal. The plate tapers inwards from a 14.8 mm to 8.6 mm in width before it terminates to a point. The top of the plate is rectangular and has one central rivet hole with a diameter of 3.2 mm. There are some incised lines around the rivet hole, but these are worn, and it is uncertain if this is part of the decoration of the strap-end or lines caused by wear and damage. The rest of the plate tapers inwards and has a decorated motif on the surface. The zoo…
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Last updated: Friday 11th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lambourn CP', grid reference and parish protected.