Record ID: PUBLIC-0ABD04
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy biconical pin with a flat top, possibly Early Medieval in date. The head is 8.2mm in diameter and has a small collar and short length of the pin remains. The pin tapers fom the collar to a mimimum diameter of 2.8mm. The pin is bent towards the broken end which likely occured when the pin fractured in antiquity. The surface has an uneven green patina with powdery corrosion. For a similar example see: YORYM-C495A2. Collared pins occur from the Roman period into the medieval period and dating is difficult, a similar example can be found in Mainman and Rogers, 2000,…
Created on: Saturday 7th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 17th February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-492F13
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy fragment of an object, possibly an Early Medieval Anglo-Saxon small long brooch, c. 6th century AD. The fragment is in very poor condition, therefore a positive identification is impossible. However, the small portion that remains suggests that it comprised a portion of the square brooch head, lightly curved neck and body. The cross-section at the 'head' is relatively flat, whereas the faceting on the body suggests a sub-triangular cross-section. No traces of the pin mechanism survive. The colour of the fragment ranges from a mottled mid-green to reddish brown…
Created on: Thursday 29th March 2012
Last updated: Monday 13th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-37ABA5
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper alloy terminal from a bridle link or cheek piece. The terminal is comprised of a sub-oval loop with three knops projecting from the outside edge. One of the knops is opposite where the broken attachment joins the oval terminal loop and the other two are diametrically opposed at 90 degrees to this. The front edges are rounded and the reverse is flat. Similar strap links are shown in Williams, Anglo-Scandanavian Horse Harness Fittings, The Finds Research Group AD 700-1700, Datasheet 39, p5. It is dated to the 11th or 12th century. It weighs 7.5 grams…
Created on: Wednesday 28th March 2012
Last updated: Monday 13th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-8F2370
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early-Medieval copper alloy stirrup strap-mount c 1000 - 1100 AD. The mount is diamond shaped with an openwork design of four smaller diamonds created by a diagonal cross on a flat base. At the opposite end from the base is the rounded apex loop which measures 11.7 mm across with a central hole which contains the remains of an iron rivet. The mount is decorated with seven circular pellets, one at the centre of the cross, two below the suspension loop, one at each outer corner of the mount and two towards the base of the mount, which are aligned with those below the suspensi…
Created on: Tuesday 20th March 2012
Last updated: Sunday 7th February 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Duncton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-0AC956
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, cast, copper-alloy zoomorphic, probable stirrup terminal of Early Medieval date. The object is sub-rectangular in plan and U-shaped in section with a concave back face and moulded, convex front face. The front face has a moulded, zoomorphic decoration in relief comprising a triangular, design, possibly representing an animal's snout. The object is broken across the widest part of this design and across, what appear to be, two, circular holes. The object is also broken across below the pointed area of the design. The reverse of the object is undecorated but has a raised,…
Created on: Friday 2nd March 2012
Last updated: Monday 3rd September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fulstow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-37F847
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy wrist-clasp, of Hines's Form B7. The object is a rectangular sheet of copper alloy with one long and one short edge missing. At the complete corner is a circular perforation, and there are the remains of another at the opposite corner. The missing long edge is the front edge, with the hook or catch. The clasp-half is decorated with four surviving lines of small repoussé dots along the long axis, and at least two lines at either short end. on its surface. It measures 34.6mm in length, has a width of 13.1mm, a thickness of 0.5mm, and weighs …
Created on: Tuesday 21st February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 12th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-AA9827
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy object, perhaps an incomplete middle Anglo-Saxon ansate brooch. One end is flat and flared with straight sides, measuring 0.9mm thick. This flat area is decorated with three irregular longitudinal rows of small ring-and-dot motifs, sixteen in all; eleven of the dots have perforated the metal. The upper edge is incomplete at one corner; the other is right-angled, with a straight edge which leads to a W-shaped notch (a central indentation with a small V-shaped projection). The object tapers more strongly near to what may be the bow of the brooch. This is narrowed to 8-…
Created on: Tuesday 14th February 2012
Last updated: Thursday 1st November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-922077
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Head and stub of bow from a cast copper-alloy early-medieval cruciform brooch, with the remains of an iron spring on the reverse. The brooch has a slightly raised head plate which flares from top to bottom, and is decorated with a line of punchmarks down either side edge. The punchmarks appear to be double-crescent or half-ring and dot. To either side is a flatter wing, now with worn rounded corners; there is a trace of a similar punchmark on the lower corner of the left-hand wing (as you look at the brooch, with bow at the bottom). A half-round knob springs from the centre of each wi…
Created on: Monday 13th February 2012
Last updated: Monday 25th April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Ippolyts', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-2BB0C1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-end of late early-medieval date, decorated in the Urnes style. The split attachment end is undecorated except for neatly bevelled edges, and has a single copper-alloy rivet in the centre of the wider edge. This then tapers to a decorated terminal with interlace in high relief. The interlace looks like it was intended as openwork but imperfectly cast, so that only one space between the interlacing strands is now perforated. At the junction of the split attachment end and the terminal, there is a C-shaped ridge around a pellet, with the open ends facing the termina…
Created on: Wednesday 8th February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Howell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-96ADC8
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a copper alloy buckle. The frame can perhaps be described as almost pentagonal or lozengiform. Its outside edge is curved internally and has two straighter edges externally, which meet at a central raised V-shaped knop at the centre. The V has its open edge with two points projecting from the exterior edge; the closed point of the V does not reach the interior edge. The two halves of the outside edge are decorated with a line of beaded decoration within a broad central groove following the shape of the frame. The top and bottom edges are straight and converge towards a very…
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 17th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH CAMBRIDGE', grid reference and parish protected.