Record ID: CORN-D114C6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy zoomorphic 'gaping mouth beast' buckle dating from the late Early Medieval to the early Medieval period, c.1000-1150. The buckle has a single loop frame that is trapezoidal in plan, with rounded knops on each external corner, and hole, 5 mm in diameter, just inside the frame for the pin, now missing. The moulding beyond the loop is in the form of the head of a beast, perhaps a fish or sea monster, with its mouth wide open like a basking shark. On the top of the head is a Y-shaped crest forming eyebrows and a n…
Created on: Friday 20th December 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 29th January 2020
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Record ID: CORN-8EB1FB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy pin from a D-shaped buckle, possibly dating from the Anglo-Saxon period, c.AD 575-625. The pin has broken off from the base plate above the loop that would have wound around the pin bar. The broken end is circular in section and 8 mm in diameter and the pointed end has been chiselled from both sides into a rectangular edge that is 5 mm in length and 3 mm in width. The base plates were often shield shaped as seen in D-shaped buckles illustrated in MacGregor & Bolick (1993) om pp.203-204, nos.34.45-34.52. See LVPL-A115C7 for a similar buckle on the database, which i…
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-40B360
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy zoomorphic foot from an Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch, dating from the later 5th to the 6th century AD. The foot is in the form of a horse's head with flared rounded nostrils creating a semi-circular terminal, incised with a pair of oblique grooves to define them from the nose, and stamped with ring and dot motifs to create the texture of a hairy snout. Above the nostrils, the nose is plain and narrows towards two projecting triangular eyes. The eyes narrow from 3 mm in diameter at the base to points that are 1 mm in diameter, and are divided by an incised …
Created on: Thursday 7th November 2019
Last updated: Saturday 9th November 2019
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Record ID: CORN-4C58B4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy gilt fragment of perhaps a harness or scabbard mount in the form of a bird with a pointed beak at one terminal opposite a pointed wing following the curve of the back of the beast. The two projections at the bottom of the beast may represent an incomplete leg and body which have worn to curved edges but may have extended into part of the mount that could have been attached to a leather strap. The front face of the mount is decorated with a high-relief animal motif with a U-shaped element below the raised round eye, which is now black but may have originally had red en…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 29th October 2019
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Record ID: CORN-11148E
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval cast copper-alloy horse harness fitting, a probable bit link, Anglo-Scandinavian in style, dating from c.AD 1000-1100. The bit link 36.5 mm in length, 23.3 mm in width, 7 mm in height and 4 mm in thickness and 15.3 g in weight. The bit link has a circular looped terminal, 17 mm in diameter and 3 mm in thickness, which is decorated with three projecting knobs. The terminal is attached to a 6.5 mm long projection, D-shaped in section, which then expands to form the 12 mm wide boss of a loop of which only two short broken ends remain. These bit links "were at…
Created on: Saturday 24th August 2019
Last updated: Thursday 4th March 2021
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Record ID: CORN-D9B9D4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy brooch in the form of a back-biting beast, dating from the Early Medieval period. The beast has two legs that are bent into a crouched position with larger rear haunches, a curved belly and neck that is turning the head to the right over the back. The head is defined by a curved groove between the neck and head, leading to the ear. There is also another crescent-shaped groove below the eye dividing the snout and mouth. The mouth consists of an open jaw that extends into three tendrils that terminate in scrolls to represent an upper and lower jar on either side of a to…
Created on: Tuesday 16th July 2019
Last updated: Friday 10th July 2020
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Record ID: CORN-8B8C57
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount of Williams Class A, Type 3 depicting a male human figure standing flanked by a pair of serpents entwined round the figures legs. The central naked male human figure is standing facing with his arms everted and legs slightly apart. The surface is worn and some of the detail is lost but the eyes, mouth and chin are visible, possibly with a moustache above the transverse groove of the mouth. Above the rounded head is a square apex loop with a circular perforation that is 3 mm in diameter. Below the man's round stomach is an M-shaped element which ex…
Created on: Sunday 30th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-C166DE
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast gilded silver mount in the form of a hollow, four-sided pyramid. The pyramid has a square base with an integral flat bar, running transversely across the base. Each face is decorated with a punched motif comprising a triangle of three annulets, and the edges between each face with a line of paired dots. Most of the gilding survives on the upper face, and some corrosion product has accumulated in the hollow back of the mount.
Created on: Monday 27th May 2019
Last updated: Thursday 14th January 2021
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Record ID: CORN-B02E1C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Cnut (1016-1035), Pointed Helmet type (1024-1030), moneyer Leofwold, London mint, Spink 1158, North 787.
Created on: Thursday 2nd May 2019
Last updated: Sunday 5th May 2019
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Record ID: CORN-7AAE36
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy horse harness pendant with ogival edges and a perforated knop at the apex with a suspension hole that is 2.5 mm in diameter. The front face of the pendant is decorated with raised oblique lines radiating from the centre to pointed terminals within the undulating edges. The style of radiating lines which do not appear to curve around the edges like serpents may be a crude representation of a zoomorphic style or a more anthropomorphic style seen on some of the stirrup strap mounts referenced below, where the ribs of a central human figure radiate outwards. Simpler patt…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
Last updated: Sunday 7th April 2019
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Record ID: CORN-079B27
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval silver Carolingian denier of monogram type struck for either Charlemagne (768-814) dating to c.793-814 or Charles the Bald (840-77) dating 840-c.864. Minted at Melle, France. Ref: Coupland 2015. The inscriptions are oriented in the standard manner for these coins, with the R, S and X on the obverse located at the ends of the horizintal and lower arms of the central cross, and the initial cross on the reverse at 1 o'clock (if the monogram is horizontal). Cf. Grierson and Blackburn, 1986, p.544, pl.42, no.926 for style, tentatively attributed there to Charles…
Created on: Saturday 7th July 2018
Last updated: Thursday 26th March 2020
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Record ID: CORN-81D297
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Bone spindle whorl, circular in plan and bi-convex in profile, 33.5 mm in diameter, 12 mm thick and with a circular central perforation that is 7.5 mm in diameter. The bone has been analysed and is likely from a Red or Fallow deer (see below). The smooth upper surface is decorated with a slightly off-centre, sub-circular incised ring around the central perforation which varies between 16 mm and 18 mm in diameter. Outside this is a circle of ring-and-dot decorations, at approximately 5.5 mm intervals (centre to centre) and each about 2 mm in diameter. The surface of the bone has lamina…
Created on: Monday 26th March 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 5th September 2018
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Record ID: CORN-E35A43
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy dress pin with just the polygonal head remaining and the beginning of the pin shaft. The head is polyhedral in form (a cuboid with the corners cut off), but with a pointed terminus, square in plan and section and lozenge-shaped in profile with twelve faces. The head is 15 mm in height, 9 mm in width and 8 mm in thickness. The faces are corroded but each of the four main faces have a single central punched annulet, but there does not appear to be any decoration on the upper four faces, which would have been seen from above. Beneath the head the shaft is …
Created on: Tuesday 18th July 2017
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2017
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Record ID: CORN-C3D550
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy bridle bit link, dating from the Early Medieval period, c.1000-1100. The complete trefoil terminal is lozenge-shaped in plan with three external knops that are vary from 2-3 mm in width, and an internal ovate aperture that is 8 mm long and 6 mm wide. The remains of the connecting bar is 8 mm in length, D-shaped in section and terminates in a tapered and rounded end, suggesting that after the terminal was broken off of the rest of the bit link, the broken end may have had some secondary use. The underside of the bar is flat. The original narrow bar may not …
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2017
Last updated: Thursday 13th July 2017
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Record ID: CORN-8BAD63
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy bridle link, dating from the Early Medieval period, c.1000 - 1100. The complete trefoil terminal is lozenge-shaped in plan with three external knops that are 4 mm in width, and an internal ovate aperture that is 15 mm long and 9 mm wide. The complete terminal is internally bevelled and the opposite terminal has been torn open, probably when the link was pulled away from the rest of the bridle. The edge of the terminal has then been bent inwards but still retains one knop, so it was likely a mirror image of the extant terminal. Both terminals are connected …
Created on: Thursday 20th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 26th May 2017
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Record ID: CORN-7EEC93
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy Late Saxon stirrup strap mount, which is a Williams Class A Mount, Type 17, and dates from the 11th century. The mount is sub-triangular in plan with a perforated trefoil suspension lug at the apex, still retaining its iron rivet that is 3 mm in diameter, with grooved and defined bifurcated tendrils on either side of the lug. The mount is L-shaped in profile with its flat base or flange at right angles to the face of the mount. The flange has one central fixing hole still retaining its iron rivet which is 4 mm in diameter. There is iron corrosion product around both …
Created on: Thursday 20th April 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2017
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Record ID: CORN-826D9B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy hooked strap end with complete hook but missing the opposite end where the rivet holes would have been to attach the hook to an item of clothing. The upper face of the tag is inlaid silver wire that has been fired into the green enamel which has since slightly worn away leaving the wire to sit proud of the surface. The wire is scrolled into opposing ends in an 'S' shape and there appears to be the impression of another 'S' above it where the wire is now missing at the broken end. Below the enamelled section, the tag tapers towards the hook which is divided by t…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 30th September 2021
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Record ID: CORN-61CC2A
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon Small-long brooch with just the head and part of the bow remaining. The head is in the form of a three-armed, square-headed cross with two circular openwork apertures between the bifid terminals of the arms, on the upper half of the cross, and two triangular openwork apertures between the projecting terminal and the side of the bow, on the lower half of the cross. The head has a linear border of four parallel grooves alternting with three parallel ridge. The base arm of the cross forms the beginings of the bow, curving upwards to a rectangul…
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2017
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2017
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Record ID: CORN-61B364
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy zoomorphic stirrup terminal mount of late Anglo-Saxon/Anglo-Scandinavian date. The terminal is in the form of a stylised animal, perhaps a cockerel with a comb, with a hollow, semi-cylindrical attachment end that would have been mounted on to the now missing stirrup. The lower end of the hollow back has traces of a white substance, perhaps used to solder the terminal to the stirrup, and is closed at the base. At the upper end of the mount, the back is open with a semi-circular aperture. The front of this aperture has a moulded collar with two transverse ribs between …
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2017
Last updated: Friday 20th December 2019
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Record ID: CORN-3DB874
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a cast copper alloy pin with only a short section of the shaft remaining, missing most of its length and the point. The head is polyhedral in form (a cuboid with the corners cut off), square in plan, profile and in section and has thirteen faces. The faces are undecorated and filed smooth, and there is no transverse collar at the join of head and shaft, as there is in the examples from Suffolk below. Beneath the head the shaft is circular in section and 4.4 mm in diameter and 10 mm long. The pin measures 20 mm in overal length, 8.6 mm in width across the head, and 8.3 mm d…
Created on: Monday 11th July 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2016
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