Record ID: SOMDOR-81A196
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy strap end of late Anglo-Saxon date. The tongue-shaped strap end measures 34.3mm by 17.7mm (a width to length ratio of 1:1.94) by 1.9mm and weighs 4.06g. The strap end has three equally spaced rivet holes alongside its narrowed straight end, one of which contains some corroded metal, apparently also copper alloy. The moulded openwork design is in the form of a symmetrical plant scroll. There are traces of silvering or tinning on parts of the surface. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The strap end is an example of Thomas's Class E, type 1 ('Winchester style') and…
Created on: Friday 1st September 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-81EDA1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy strap end of late Anglo-Saxon date. The tongue-shaped strap end measures 30.5mm by 15.2mm (a width to length ratio of 1:2) by 2.8mm and weighs 4.97g. The strap end has two equally spaced rivet holes alongside its narrowed straight end, one of which is broken. The front of the strap end is decorated with stamped annulets which are arranged in a border around the edge and along the centre of the longitudinal axis. There are also two lines incised parallel to the narrowed section. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The strap end appears to be an unusually plain exam…
Created on: Friday 1st September 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-940716
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy bridle cheekpiece of eleventh century AD date. The surviving part of the cheekpiece measures 42.1mm by 20.2mm by 9.7mm and weighs 13.73g. It consists of a central boss with two arms each side which both terminate in a lozengiform terminal, each with a large oval perforation. Neither terminal is complete but originally they would both have had three knops, one on the end and one of each side. Projecting from each side of the central boss, perpendicular to the two arms, is a further, larger knop. The back of the object is flat with a slight depression on …
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2006
Last updated: Monday 11th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilminster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-E14156
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy harness link of eleventh century AD date. The double-ended fitting with a centrally-placed boss measures 77.7mm by 22.8mm by 9.2mm and weighs 29.1g. The ends are lozenge-shaped, with large oval perforations and the boss is moulded to represent a forward-facing beast's head. At the three external corners of each lozenge there is a rounded knop and between the lozenge and the bar there is a vertical ridge, 1mm in width. The beast has an upwards-pointing ear at each end of the top of its head, faintly incised circular eyes, a wide human nose-like snout and horizontal l…
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-A12616
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy ansate brooch of early-medieval date. The brooch measures 37.2mm by 11.2mm by 5.5mm and weighs 7.93g. At each end of the forward projecting central arm there is a circular terminal. Both are decorated with three uneven annulets, the outer two of which adjoin a linear which is parallel to the central arm. This pattern is set within a raised border. The central arm is decorated with two parallel longitudinal linears, apart from on the central circular boss, which is decorated with faint lines in the form of three sides of a square. On the back of one terminal are the …
Created on: Thursday 2nd November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Dorchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-B7E4C7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy mount in Urnes style of eleventh century date. The worn openwork mount measures 39.8mm by 35.1mm by 2.9mm and weighs 15.2g. It is sub-triangular in shape and part of the narrow end has broken at some point. The moulded openwork design consists of one thicker tendril arranged in a cross shape, around which weave thinner tendrils. A similar and slightly more complete object from Wellingore, Lincolnshire has been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database (LIN-1A8B75). A broadly similar object identified as a furniture or harness mount from Thu…
Created on: Friday 3rd November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Otterhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SOMDOR-C8A847
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy and silver strap end of early-medieval date. The strap end measures 51.5mm by 11mm by 3.6mm at its widest points and weighs 7g. One end is zoomorphic, moulded to represent a beast's head seen from above and etched detail to represent its ears. The other end is split in order to hold the leather strap. There is another engraved motive at this end which comprises a semi-circle with three short lines inside which form a triangle. Seven silver rivets pierce the strap end, three in pairs and one (that closest to the 'head' end) on its own. There is also a small portion of si…
Created on: Thursday 16th November 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 26th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burrowbridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-BAB5A0
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and corroded cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount of probable eleventh century date. The mount measures 38.3mm by 25.9mm by 6.1mm and weighs 18.9g. It is loosely pentagonal with a central loop at the upper end and a backwards angled flange at the base, which is perforated by two attachment holes. The front is moulded to resemble a human mask and the back is flat and undecorated. The face is worn, but pointed oval eyes set within a larger border, a straight mouth and nose and a slightly projecting chin are discernible. This stirrup strap mount is of Williams' Class A, Type 9. T…
Created on: Friday 22nd December 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 14th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Puriton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-BC1877
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy variant of an early Anglo-Saxon disc brooch. The flat circular brooch measures 27.7mm in diameter, it is 3.8 mm thick and weighs 7.17g. It has a central raised circular border with a further less well-defined raised circle within. Inside this is a convex oval decorated with two small circular depressions and a slightly protruding area to one side. This resembles a face. Outside the outer circular border, the brooch has been silvered or tinned, and it is decorated with a border of rounded crescent stamps. The back of the brooch is flat and undecorated. The integra…
Created on: Friday 22nd December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Otterhampton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-6FAAC6
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Williams Class B Type 2 Group 3 stirrup strap mount of eleventh century date. The object measures 42.63mm in length, 35.42mm in width, it has a maximum thickness of 5.82mm and weighs 23.2g. Its upper fixing hole is broken with worn edges. There is an angled flange at the base which contains two rivet holes, one of which is broken. The mount is decorated with three pairs of sub-round apertures. These define several animal heads, a bottom row of three facing heads and an upper row of three heads, the central one facing but the two flanking heads sideways with downwar…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2006
Last updated: Monday 21st September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-A8DD87
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gilded cast copper alloy bell-shaped openwork pendant of sixth century date. The pendant has a vertical line of symmetry and measures 51.44mm in length, 40.2mm in width and 3.45mm in thickness. It weighs 19.09g. The upper section is gilded and is decorated with two symmetrical beasts in Salin's animal style I, each looking downwards with widely gaping double-strand jaws, which scroll outwards at the ends. The upper jaws are particularly tightly scrolled, with two complete turns. Each animal has a raised circular eye with a central dot contained within an angled double-strand headf…
Created on: Friday 17th March 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 4th July 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weymouth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-172678
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tiny cast copper alloy single loop buckle of early-medieval date. The D-shaped frame has a circular cross section and is thicker on the outside edge. It measures 13.63mm in length by 7.41mm in width by 2.21mm in maximum thickness. The pin is wrapped around the frame and tapers to a point. It is 8.6mm in length. The buckle weighs 0.78g. This simple form may date from the seventh to the ninth century (pers. comm. Kevin Leahy).
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-4F8073
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Penny of Coenwulf, king of Mercia (796-821), minted in Canterbury by the moneyer Duda.
Created on: Thursday 6th April 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-CB7142
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small cast copper alloy strap end of early medieval date. The strap end measures 30.71mm by 9.31mm (a length to width ratio of about 1:3.3) by 2.72mm and weighs 2.15g. The strap end has a split proximal end with a single central rivet, a tapering plate and a worn terminal, which may have been zoomorphic. It therefore falls into Thomas's Class A and probably dates from the ninth century. Little decoration survives, although there is a slight transverse ridge about two-thirds of the way along the object towards the terminal. This is located at the point where the strap end terminal en…
Created on: Monday 24th April 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 25th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Dundon area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-CCB761
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy stirrup terminal of late early-medieval date. The terminal has a hollow back which contains remnants of the lead solder which would have joined it to the side of the stirrup. The front of the terminal is zoomorphic, a simple stylised beast with straight muzzle and large eyes, one of which is oval and one more D-shaped. The muzzle has two parallel longitudinal crests, about 1mm in width, on each side of the upper surface and a protruding semi-circular knop on each side at the distal end of the ridge. Part of the animal's neck also forms part of the terminal and on o…
Created on: Monday 24th April 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-9BF885
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
Silver, Series C (Metcalf R1), c.700-710, Metcalf T&S p.502-9, pl.23, nos.391-393.
Created on: Thursday 4th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Compton Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-32BC96
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Williams' Class A, Type 15 variant stirrup strap mount of late early-medieval date. The flat sub-triangular mount measures 38.25mm in length, 21.6mm in width, it has a maximum thickness of 2.64mm and weighs 8.71g. Its upper fixing hole is broken with worn edges. There is an angled flange at the base which contains two rivet holes, one of which is broken. The upper part of the front of the mount is decorated with some faint symmetrical linears which form a pattern including a union knot. The lines are raised, suggesting the decoration was applied with a punch. The f…
Created on: Thursday 11th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corscombe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-C021D1
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
24 sherds from hand made cooking vessels of mid-tenth to early fifteenth century date. Five are rim sherds with hooked rims and the remaining nineteen are body sherds. The gritty earthenware fabric is tempered with Upper Greensand-derived angular chert and flint (up to 2-3mm), rounded quartz, red mudstone and limestone (up to 1mm). Most of the sherds have oxidised orange surfaces and a reduced grey core, although two are externally oxidised, with reduced cores and internal surfaces and two others are more comprehensively oxidised. The cooking vessels were probably fairly locally made. …
Created on: Friday 23rd June 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-C0C2E3
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three sherds from unglazed hand made cooking vessels of mid-tenth to early fifteenth century date. One sherd is a body sherd and the other two are rims, one everted and one plain and rounded. The gritty earthenware fabric is tempered with Upper Greensand-derived angular chert and flint (up to 2-3mm), rounded quartz, red mudstone and limestone (up to 1mm). All three sherds have oxidised orange surfaces and a reduced grey core. The cooking vessels were probably fairly locally made. The fabric is similar to material found at Haycroft Farm, Membury, Devon, during excavations in 2000-1 (All…
Created on: Friday 23rd June 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOMDOR-C0FC66
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three body sherds from unglazed hand made cooking vessels of mid-tenth to early fifteenth century date. The gritty earthenware fabric is tempered with Upper Greensand-derived angular chert and flint (up to 2-3mm), rounded quartz, red mudstone and limestone (up to 1mm). All three sherds have oxidised orange surfaces and a reduced grey core. One sherd is decorated with an applied thumbed clay strip. The cooking vessels were probably fairly locally made. The fabric is similar to material found at Haycroft Farm, Membury, Devon, during excavations in 2000-1 (Allan and Langman 2002). Tota…
Created on: Friday 23rd June 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.