Record ID: NMS-8A3261
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver penny of Aethelred II, long cross type, North 774, weight 1.27g, moneyer Osferth of Lincoln, c.997-1003
Created on: Friday 1st June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 11th February 2014
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Record ID: NARC-8A04B5
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Late Early-Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) to Early Medieval cast copper-alloy harness link (1000-1100 AD). The fitting is convex at the front and flat at the rear, giving it a D-shaped cross section. . It has a lozenge-shaped loop at each end with a circular aperture. Each loop has a rounded knop at the sides and one at the terminal end. This fitting has a brown patina.
Created on: Friday 1st June 2012
Last updated: Friday 8th January 2016
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Record ID: NCL-882DE8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy incomplete annular brooch of Anglo-Saxon tradition, dating to the 6th century. The brooch is incomplete, with approximately 50% of the brooch remaining in two adjoining fragments. The band is a flat ring of rectangular section and 10.07mm in breadth and 2.66mm in thickness.The upper face of the band is decorated with an inner and outer circle of punched rings/annulets. One section of these are interupted by eight incised lines across the width of the band, creating a small banded panel. The hinge of the iron pin remains, corroded in place. This appears to be a …
Created on: Friday 1st June 2012
Last updated: Sunday 29th March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BUC-7A64C3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete late early-medieval (late Anglo-Saxon) - medieval copper-alloy cloisonné enamelled disc brooch (late 10th - 11th century), of the Saunderton type (Weetch Type 20.A). The brooch is constructed from a base-plate of copper alloy with six equidistant rounded projections, though one has been broken off. A circular copper-alloy collar, 19 mm in diameter, has been soldered onto this base plate and set within the collar is the cloisonné enamel pattern. The pattern is marked out by copper alloy cells and comprises a six-pointed star for of conjoined curving strips which meet a…
Created on: Thursday 31st May 2012
Last updated: Friday 31st March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brill area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-78A342
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A mid 7th-century early-medieval gold thrymsa of an anonymous ruler, York Group (Sutherland V; Blackburn variety C), circa AD 640-60. North Vol 1, p.55, no.27.
Created on: Thursday 31st May 2012
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Riding', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-776865
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval copper alloy fragment of a great square-headed brooch. The fragment is roughly L-shaped, consisting of the bow and part of one side of the footplate, with a circular knob projecting from the front of the bow. Traces of gilding and simple grooved decoration are visible on the front of the bow, and the stub of a catchplate remains on the reverse. The fragment is distorted, perhaps through plough damage or by heat, for example during a cremation. The fragment is 43mm long, 31mm wide, 2mm thick at the top and 6mm thick at the knob, and weighs 21.36g. Finds Advisor …
Created on: Thursday 31st May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 19th May 2015
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Record ID: LANCUM-763051
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy brooch foot dating from the early medieval period, that is c. AD700-900. Only the foot and part of the catchplate survive. The bow, head and pin are missing. The brooch is very worn, but there does not seem to be any surface decoration or mouldings. The foot plate is oval and what remains of the bow is hollow. It may possibly be the foot of an Ansate brooch (pers. comm. Helen Geake).
Created on: Thursday 31st May 2012
Last updated: Friday 1st June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Natland', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-74C618
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy pin head of Early-medieval date. The pin head is globular with parallel spiral grooves around its surface. The integrally cast shaft is circular in section and terminates in a worn break. The metal has a mid brownish-green patina and is worn. The pin is 43mm long, 12.7mm in diameter at the head, 4.7mm in diameter at the shaft and weighs 10.7g. Similar examples have been recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database as YORYM-28E2E6, LIN-968C84 and LIN-6D3431.
Created on: Thursday 31st May 2012
Last updated: Monday 18th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sand Hutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-73C834
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A penny of Edward The Elder, King of Wessex.The moneyer is AEthered. Reference: North Volume I, Number 649 Date: Late Early-Medieval 899 - 924 Diameter: 22.72 mm Weight: 1.52 g Die axis: 3
Created on: Thursday 31st May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 31st May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tolpuddle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-737901
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a possible cast copper-alloy disc brooch of early Medieval date. The fragment is part of a flat circular disc and has been burnt. It has a raised outside border and a circular recessed area, possibly for a setting or enamelling. The fragment measures 31.51mm in length, 21.21mm in width, 3.93mm in thickness and weighs 8.01g. It is similar to published examples (West, 1998, no 3.5, also from Barham).
Created on: Thursday 31st May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 31st May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-62FDA2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly worn and corroded early-medieval cast copper-alloy strap-end, classified as Thomas' (2003, 2) Class A, probably Type 1 (Trewhiddle style). This would date the artefact to around the 9th century AD. The strap-end is generally flat in profile, but slightly splayed and abraded at the split attachment end. The plate is broadly rectangular with shallowly bowed sides, terminating in an animal head at one end. The split attachment end features a single central perforation instead of the characteristic pair; the rivet is missing. The plate is unifacially decorated on the upper surf…
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2012
Last updated: Saturday 22nd March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Piddington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-61A6B3
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Part of a very small partly gilded silver early Anglo-Saxon sword pommel cap of 'cocked hat' shape. Less than half survives, the fragment consisting of one shoulder and a little of both sides, with a pair of broken circular loops, originally to hold rivets, at the lower end of the shoulder. These spring from a rather low vertical end, only 3mm tall, which is gilded. The surviving shoulder is ungilded, and is decorated with a central engraved inverted Y shape, with the central stem running up towards the centre of the pommel. This has been rather badly made, with the righ…
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 13th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Plumpton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DUR-613AC7
Object type: BEAD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete blue glass bead of uncertain date, possibly either Roman or Early Medieval. The bead is conical, with a central circular perforation through the entire object. It is dark blue in colour, with flecks of white and brown probably from general wear and tear. The bead weighs 0.6g. See NCL-975803 as a comparison.
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2012
Last updated: Monday 25th June 2012
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Record ID: SF-4E0DB5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy long brooch of Anglo-Saxon date. It is missing the foot and pin due to old breaks and has evidence of post-depositional wear and corrosion but is otherwise intact. The headplate is lozenge shaped in form, flat and with projecting knops at each corner. These are oval shaped in form and D-shaped in section with rounded ends and possible transverse mouldings although this is uncertain due to their preservation. At the centre of the headplate is a raised vertical rectangular panel running from the top knop to the bow. On the back face of the headplate is an…
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 30th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bromeswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-4DB246
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver object inlaid with niello. It is a long oval in shape and made from two components, a sheet silver base and a heavy hollow-cast upper part. The upper part is D-shaped in cross-section, and has relief, engraved and inlaid decoration. To either end is an animal head, both identical. The snouts have narrow rounded ends with a pair of dots for nostrils; these may originally have been set with glass pellets, similar to but smaller than those in the eyes. There are niello-inlaid grooves dividing the nostrils from each other and the nose from the rest of the snout. The ey…
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2012
Last updated: Monday 22nd June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North-West Essex', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4D1181
Object type: NET SINKER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead net sinker. Tubular sinker, made from a rolled rectangle of cast lead sheet of thickness 2.2mm with a clenched seam, and with a central aperture of diameter 4mm. Patinated overall. This technique of fixing a sinker to the selvedge of a net was recorded in Middle Saxon contexts at Flixborough, North Lincs, and other examples are widely reported in the region; this weight was either removed by tearing the net or was discarded along with it. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 750-850. Length: 31.3mm, Width: 14.3mm, Thickness (overall): 10.1mm, Weight: 26.03gms.
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2012
Last updated: Friday 28th August 2020
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Record ID: NARC-4CACA5
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy hooked tag of Early Medieval (probably late 8th to 9th century) date. The bottom point of the inverted drop-shaped plate tapers to form a now incomplete hook. The plate has two circular holes at the upper edge which is bi-lobed. Compare LEIC-9FC848 and FAKL-C9E283 on this database.
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 29th May 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Catworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4BF3C2
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn cast copper-alloy Early-Medieval/Anglo-Scandinavian stirrup mount of Williams' Class B. It comprises a flat, trapezoidal plate with angled flange, moulded front face and slightly concave back face, now slightly bent due to post-depositional damage. The front face is extremely worn to the extent that the decorative motifs can barely be identified. It has a central face, possibly zoomorphic in form, surrounded by five sub-rectangular apertures. On the upper edge are projecting semi-circular lobes that have central circular apertures containing the corroded remains of iron rivets.…
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 27th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-4BD9A5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy strap end dating from the late Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) to the early Medieval period, (c.850-1200AD). The object has a rectangular plate with a triangular terminal. The object is a one piece strap end with a rectangular slot within the rectangular plate which would have contained the strap. Two rivets remain in situ and would have secured the strap. The terminal is zoomorphic with raised moulded oval eyes at each side and a pointed snout. Behind the eyes the head curves inwards before widening to form the plate. The rectangular plate is decorated wit…
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2012
Last updated: Friday 6th July 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blakenhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-3A1748
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy strap-end with silver rivets and hooked terminal, now bent. At the top of the artefact is the split attachment end, which is undecorated, its straight sides converging towards the body of the strap-end. The body is of rectangular cross-section with a gradual decline in width from top to bottom; it is decorated with a series of evenly spaced transverse grooves. The terminal consists of a stylised zoomorphic head extending into a rearward-curving hook of rectangular cross-section, the point located a short distance from the back of the strap-end's flat underside. Lengt…
Created on: Monday 28th May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 6th May 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Poulshot', grid reference and parish protected.