Record ID: ESS-6E38A7
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy early medieval mount, probably from a sword scabbard. The mount is formed from a T bar shape, with the downward vertical, central bar being shorter than the arms of the cross bar. The centre of the mount, where the three arms integrally conjoin, is slightly expanded, with a slight arching to the middle of the cross bar.It is semicircular in section having a flat reverse with domed front. The main body of the mount is decorated with a double strand interlace design that expands along the cross bar and down the central vertical bar. At either end of the interlace design…
Created on: Monday 19th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chappel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-6C4717
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
An important and unusual find of an 8th century, silver Anglo Saxon sceat of 'monitascorum' type. Normally this type has 'MONITA SCORVM' on the obverse, but in this case has the 'DE LVNDONIA' inscription of series L instead. Michael Metcalf, Thrymsas and Sceattas' (Oxford, 1993), p. 435 noted one other specimen of this variant at the time of publication, which he described as a 'unique and highly interesting coin'. If the inscriptions are taken at face value this is an ecclesiastical issue ('Moneta Sanctorum') from London, presumably issued for a bishop of London. The coin recorded…
Created on: Monday 19th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tiptree', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-EE4354
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of cast copper alloy 11th century stirrup mount of Williams' Class B, type 3. The complete stirrup mount would most likely have been trapezoidal in plan and open work in form. The fragment recorded here represents the upper portion and central decorative motif, with an irregular outline due to break edges being through open work perforations. the central motif is formed from a slightly domed, zoomorphic head. The sub-rectangular head is decorated with two circular recesses for eyes with incised lines above for eyebrows. There is an incised triangular nose, broad edge down, g…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sible Hedingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-4470D2
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Worn, Limestone spindlewhorl, probably Anglo-Saxon. The spindlewhorl is plano-convex, having a flat bottom and domed top. It has a central circular perforation through its length. The object is abraded, but appears to have been undecorated. The limestone has a chalky white appearance. The spindlewhorl is 32.74mm in diameter, 14.32mm thick and weighs 17.92g. A similar shaped, though pottery, spindlewhorl can be seen in West, 1998, A corpus of Anglo-Saxon material from Suffolk, Figure 121, number 12. A similar stone example is recorded on the database as NARC-242448. Though the use o…
Created on: Monday 5th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wicken Bonhunt', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-DBC1A5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy supporting-arm brooch. This brooch was previously recorded on this database as an "unknown type" late Roman bow brooch. The original discription of the object has been kept below: The head of the brooch is formed from a semicylindrical spring case, that is essentially a flat, rectangular panel capped at either end with circular plates with a circular perforation to both. The rectangular panel is decorated to the front with two horizontal incised lines. Nothing of the spring or pin survives. The bow of the brooch humps from the spring case with a subci…
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-30B862
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast copper alloy swivel strap distributor, possibly from a dog's lead. The main body of the object is globular with an oval section. It is hollow. It is decorated with five lozenge shaped cut outs around its circumference with diagonal incised lines between. There is a circular hole to either side of the globule, around which is five small circular piercings as decoration. Extending from either hole is a swivel link. Each link has a D shaped loop, which sits upon a wasted 'neck' or short shaft. Each neck is decorated with incised lines around its circumference. Extending fro…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-A18FE3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Anglo-Saxon disc brooch. This brooch is circular in plan and flat in section. The face of the brooch is heavily worn and abraded. What survives of the original surface has a dark green patina, but exposed surfaces are lighter green. There are significant patches of orangey brown corrosion product. The front is decorated with a central dot, with four other dots spaced around the periphery. It is likely these dots were enclosed within incised rings, but traces of these have been worn away. There are no traces of tinning to the front, which might be expected with …
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 10th October 2018
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-60BD12
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon square headed brooch of Hines group XI. This fragment represents part of the headplate inner panel and the bow of the brooch. The bow is rectangular in plan and flat in section. It has been squashed flat and no longer has its C shaped curved profile. A raised moulded border surrounds the bow. The central panel is decorated with a central moulded rib, with a raised, hollow and circular boss at the central point (not domed). It is decorated to either side of the mid rib with a design in the four quarters of the bow. Each upper angle appears to h…
Created on: Monday 31st October 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-622426
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Silver cut short cross farthing of Cnut. North 790. EMC 2006.0025
Created on: Wednesday 19th October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Tey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-BDE117
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a once circular, copper alloy openwork object with a flanged edge to its reverse. The object is now subtriangular in plan. It is decorated on the front face with silver sheet representing a dog-like animal, possibly in the Jellinge style. There is beaded silver sheet around the edge of what was once an openwork perforation. The copper alloy portion of the object is abraded with little of the original surface remaining. It now has a bright, mid green patina. It is probably 10th century in date.It is 21.3mm long, 15.66mm wide, 3,82mm thick and weighs 5.16g.
Created on: Tuesday 11th October 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 15th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Birch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-A66486
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Silver denier coin from Cologne of Otto III, 983-1002 AD, Haevernick 34. Martin Allen of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, comments that this is an interesting example of the German coins that may have been imported into England in large numbers c.1000, supplying much of the silver for the late Anglo-Saxon coinage. The re-dating of Haevernick's type to the reign of Otto III was undertaken by Peter Ilisch in the Nordisk Numismatik Arsskrift 1983/4, p. 130. EMC 2005.0209 [germany]
Created on: Wednesday 28th September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-2A8EF5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of early medieval strap end. This fragment represents one side of the V shaped split at the top of the strap end, which would have accommodated the end of the leather strap. It is subsquare in plan and flat in section, and is double lobed. Within each lobe there is a rivet hole which contains the remains of the copper alloy rivet. The object is undecorated.The fragment is truncated with a clean horizontal break, which is worn, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. The original surface of the object survives with a dark green patina. It is 13.12mm long, 13.62mm wide, 1.2mm …
Created on: Thursday 22nd September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 26th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Benfleet', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-13B5E6
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Complete cast copper-alloy die stamp of 'matrix' type, for the production of bracteate pendants. The die is flat and circular. It is 27.32mm in diameter, 2,72mm thick and weighs 9.9g. There is some chipping of the surface at the edge, but the die is otherwise intact and complete. The obverse of the die has a negative design of an intertwined beast, though the design is somewhat garbled and the animal's head is not visible. The reverse of the die is undecorated. The object has a mostly even dark green patina, but is lighter green (on the original surface) around the design, perhaps due…
Created on: Wednesday 21st September 2005
Last updated: Monday 13th May 2013
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-5893B3
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Complete cast copper alloy 11th century stirrup mount. The mount is sub-triangular in plan with a circular loop (on the same plane) at the apex. It has an open work decoration that is formed from a saltire cross set between the frame of the mount. At each end of the cross, on the frame, and at its centre, is a low globular knop, otherwise the mount is plain. The reverse of the mount is also plain but the reverse of the frame and cross are grooved, though it was not recessed to hold another material. The flange at the bottom of the reverse of the mount is set at a right angle. It is bu…
Created on: Wednesday 31st August 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 11th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Tey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-B36912
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon copper alloy disc brooch of the late 10th or 11th century. This brooch is circular in plan. Around its circumference is a flange, set at 90 degrees to the main body of the brooch, with six circular recessed lobes. Four of the six lobes hold a globular blue glass setting. The main body of the brooch has high sides, recessing it for the central decoration. This central decoration survives intact and takes the form of an equal five-armed star set at the centre of the circular field. Within the hollow of at least two arms of the star and the surrounding background is…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 28th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roydon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-B2ABB3
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper alloy Anglo-Saxon hooked tag. The tag has a flat, subcircular plate from which extends the complete integral hook, which tapers and curves back to the rear of the object. The circular plate is decorated with an incised motif of eight hollow sub oval segments radiating from a central, incised hollow circle. This gives the pattern a flower-like appearance. It is surrounded by a border of a single incised line at the edge of the plate. The incised lines may once have held black niello, but are now filled with soil. There are faint traces of silvering to the front face. The…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roydon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-8B3427
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy pinhead from a middle Saxon pin. This pinhead is globular with a diameter of 5.98mm. It has an over all length of 11.46mm and weighs 1.29g. It is decorated with a ring and dot motif. Beneath the pinhead is a collar and beneath that only 3.6mm survives of the circular shaft. The object is very abraded and only a tiny patch of the original surface survives, otherwise the pinhead is mostly light green in colour. The break edge on the shaft is worn, suggesting damage occurred in antiquity. A close parallel can be found in West 1998, A Corpus of Anglo Saxon material from Suffol…
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-23F921
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of Anglo-Saxon metalwork. This fragment appears to be complete. It is triangular in plan and flat in section. The front face is decorated with a geometric pattern. This is essentially a broad border that runs along the length of the two short sides. Within each side of the border is a raised double lined zig zag forming two peaks, with a third triangle formed from a single raised line that spirals in on its self at the apex of the two short sides. In the triangular shaped gap created by the border, is a thick, fairly crude raised lines that follow the line of the peak. There …
Created on: Thursday 4th August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-23B5D6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper alloy mount. The mount is circular in plan and flat in section. It has an openwork design of a central open, rounded-end cross, with an open rounded triangle set slightly back from each angle. Two circular shanked copper alloy rivets survive. One, which still moves freely within the hole, and one that is fixed. The fixed rivet head is flush with the mount, so evidence for the hole is almost invisible. The shank of the rivet protrudes from the reverse side of the mount. The front of the mount is abraded, but appears to be plain. The surface has a mid green patina, with p…
Created on: Thursday 4th August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
No spatial data available.

Record ID: ESS-2112C6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy Anglo-Saxon disc brooch. This brooch is circular in plan and flat in section. The brooch has a central, circular perforation. The face of the brooch is heavily worn and abraded, with little of the original surface surviving. What survives is pitted and has a dark green patina, with exposed surfaces being lighter green. There are no traces of tinning, which might be expected with this type of brooch. The reverse of the brooch is in a similar condition, with little of the original surface surviving. It appears to be plain. The pin bar lug is obscured by an orange…
Created on: Thursday 4th August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 4th October 2018
No spatial data available.