Record ID: SUR-C0CF7A
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy zoomorphic fitting of later early medieval date but of uncertain function. The object is triangular, tapering from a break across a pair of rivet holes to a beast head terminal with a flat attachment loop projecting from the snout. There appears to be indistinct moulded decoration on the front of the plate; details of eyes, brow, ears and snout are visible on the beast head.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
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Record ID: SF-BE7600
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy small-long brooch of Early-Medieval date (Anglo-Saxon).  Only the head remains, which would have formed a trefoil shape, one arm is missing. To the rear, there is iron corrosion remaining from the now missing pin.  Length: 23.64mm Width: 25.15mm Weight: 5.03g
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Iken', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-BC5798
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy harness link or bridle cheek piece of late early-medieval (c. 11th century) date and Anglo-Scandinavian style. The remaining portion comprises a D-shaped loop with three peripheral knops and a stump of a narrow arm with a D-shaped cross section. The object has a flat reverse, with a concave hollow to the rear of the loop.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-BC3ACF
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy collared pin of early-medieval date (mid Anglo-Saxon, c. AD 700-900). The head is biconical with a flattened top and a broad flattened circumference of 8.1mm diameter. At the base of the head is a small collar at the top of the shaft, which ends in a bend to an old break. 
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-BC1BE6
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy pin of early-medieval date (mid Anglo-Saxon, c. AD 700-900). The head is globular with a slightly flattened top and decorated with a twisted and grooved design spiralling around the head (a style known as ‘wrythen-headed'). At the base of the head is a small collar at the top of the shaft, which ends in an old break. Much of the original surface has been lost to corrosion.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-BC0362
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unusual cast copper alloy strap hook or hooked fitting of medieval date. The object has a subrectangular plate with slightly concave sides and a plano convex cross section. This has symmetrical decoration of scrolled forms running along the plate, rendered largely illegible by corrosion but probably intended to represent an elongated beast head. One end has a rounded attachment loop with five projections around the edge. The other end has an incomplete hook. C. later 11th-mid 12th century.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-81D0D8
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy early medieval (early Anglo-Saxon) sleeve clasp catch-element. It is sub-rectangular in shape and slightly curved in profile. The plate and bar are cast in one piece with the sub rectangular catch-element, within which is a long oval slot, projecting from the centre of a straight front edge. The rectangular plate has a straight outer edge and an integrally cast, narrow, longitudinally positioned bar projecting from the inner edge of the outer face. The outer face of this bar is decorated with two groups of two transverse grooves, creating …
Created on: Saturday 30th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2024
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Record ID: SF-5842EB
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy late early medieval, or Viking Age, cheekpiece, cheekpieces were worn in pairs and each is pierced with a round hole through which the ends of the jointed iron bit projected.  Only a fragment of the flat plate and of the central hole survives as well as the knob which originally was at the base of a loop, the latter is now missing. This cheekpiece seems most likely to be Williams Type 1, it is very worn with no visible decoration evident. (Williams 2007). Length: 51.14mm Width: 26.81mm Weight: 13.63g
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickham Skeith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-566360
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy early medieval (Anglo Saxon) strap end (cf. Thomas Class A2h). The plate is narrow and oval, waisted to a flared rear end which is characteristically split but incomplete having  broken across the rivet holes on the edge. The front of the plate is decorated with cross hatching or lattice decoration within a linear border. The terminal is zoomorphic, although now too worn for much detail to be visible.
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2024
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Record ID: LIN-554D4A
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a cast copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon girdle hanger dating to c.AD 470-560 Only the shank/neck has survived. It is plano-convex with a thickened side terminating with a broken loop. The thickened end (4.6 mm thick) is decorated with cast transverse ribs: two raised bands, followed by a space, then a further two bands. A medial ridge runs the entire length of the extant piece. Below the thickened section the shaft widens gently and is flatter and is D-shaped in cross-section (2.2 mm thick near the break).The shaft terminates with an old break. The reverse is undecorated…
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spridlington area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-54961C
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy pin of Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) dating to 7th-10th Century AD. It confirms to Ross Type LXIXii - inverted-pear or 'Hot-air-balloon' headed type with a ring collar. Only the head and part of the shaft remain.  Head Diameter: 5.49mm Length: 9.58mm Weight: 0.61g
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-54734B
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) cruciform brooch detachable side knob. It is half round, with a slot and hole for pin on the base. It is semi-oval in cross section. It has a lozenge shaped dome, tapering into a waist before terminating in the base. Due to its half round shape, it conforms to Cruciform Brooch Phase B, dating to 475-550AD (Martin, 2015, pg 128). Height: 15.85mm Diameter: 8.31mm Weight: 5.57g
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-448764
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper-alloy small long/cruciform brooch dating to circa AD 450-570. The extant element is virtually complete save for the apex of the head and the lower foot, terminal and pin. The head plate is flat and rectangular. It terminates in old breaks on each of its edges and it is, therefore, unclear whether there would have been attached any side knops or integrally cast elements. The headplate is undecorated. The bow emerges from the lower edge of the headplate. It is curved in profile and plano-convex in section. Running down the centre is a lo…
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 12th April 2024
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Record ID: LVPL-43E58C
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy stirrup mount dating to the early medieval period (c.AD 1000-1100). As Williams (1997) Class A, Type 1 The mount is broadly pentagonal in shape with curved edges; it has a flat base and rounded apex. Along the edges are adjeacent protruding knops, two near the top and two pairs at the middle. At the base are two iron attachment rivets that are worn to the surface level. At the apex is a small circular attachment hole that measures 3.2mm in diameter. The face is decorated with an incised design of a pair of beasts entwined at the apex of the mount. The reve…
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Saturday 6th April 2024
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Record ID: SF-43DA57
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper-alloy pin of Ross type LXIX (Ross 1991, 288), inverted pear or hot air balloon type, dating to circa AD 600-900. Only the head, collar and small segment of the upper shaft now survive. The shank is circular-sectioned.  L 16.43mm; W (diameter of head) 7.69mm; weight 1.69g
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-4343DA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Early Medieval copper-alloy cruciform brooch dating to circa AD 475-550. The extant piece consists of a side knop which would have been attached to the headplate of the brooch.. It is dumbbell shaped in plan and plano-convex in section, with a flat reverse. The front face consists of two lobes joined by a constricted mid-setion. Each lobe is decorated with three incised transverse grooves. At the efge of one of the lobes is a shall median rectangular groove which would have facilitated attachment to the brooch. It is now covered with iron staining.  Half-rou…
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
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Record ID: SF-42B58D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) cruciform, dating to AD 420-480. The foot is missing. The head plate is rectangular and has an integral full rounded top knop; the latter has a domed head, a waist and a base, which extends outwards on the front face. The head plate has bevelled sides and has the same width as the arched bow protruding from its lower edge; its back face has a pierced semi-circular tab which is blocked by a fragment of the iron axis-bar; a fragment of the spring and iron corrosion products are encrusted around the…
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-401E78
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver Early Medieval cut halfpenny of Edgar the Peaceful (King of Mercia etc AD 957-959; King of all England AD 959-975). Mint: possibly Chester. Moneyer: possibly Thurmod. The coin is cut in half from around half past 4 to around half past 10 on the obverse, and is bent at an angle around 1 o'clock on the obverse. See North (1994) pg.149 no.752. Length: 18.85mm. Width: 10.35mm. Thickness: 0.73mm. Weight: 0.74g. Die axis:
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
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Record ID: LIN-2EDC13
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy early medieval stirrup mount dating to c. AD 1000-1100. Williams Class B Type 1 Group 3 (see Williams 1997, Fig. 55, no. 409). The mount is broadly rectangular with openwork decoration and an in-turned basal edge or angled flange with two copper-alloy rivets passing through drilled lower fixing holes, with a third at the opposite end centrally positioned, now torn and missing its rivet. It is decorated with three projecting zoomorhic heads with eleven circular apertures arranged symmetrically in the order from the top: two, two, two, three, and two. The a…
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Spridlington area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2DFB8F
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy stirrup strap mount of Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date. It is sub-triangular in plan with a zoomorphic relief design.  It is composed of a narrowed upper terminal which expands towards an expanded flat lower edge with two outer projections. The lower projections and upper terminal are zoomorphic, in the form of an animal heads. Between the two projections are two circular intergral lugs, above which is an old break. At the back of the flattened edge is a right-angled flange. The upper surface has moulded relief decoration composed of two…
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cotton', grid reference and parish protected.