Record ID: LEIC-018E01
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Undated copper alloy object, 18mm long and 17mm wide. The object is in fair condition with a brown surface patina showing green where its been removed. The object is roughly crescent shaped and is 11mm thick in the centre. The object tapers sharply towards the ends (which may have joined to form a circle). The object is decorated with four raised circles arranged in a rectangle, two are 4mm in diameter and two are 6mm in diameter. The object may be prehistoric and may be some sort of strapend or even a large earring.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd October 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-76A614
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Anglo-Saxon copper alloy and gold mount, 23mm long, 17mm wide, 2.5mm thick with a weight of 2.99 grams. The object is sub rectangular in form with slightly bulging sides and a broken off upper edge. It has a corroded green patina and has an oval shaped recessed area. This is decorated with gilded interlace. The pattern allows for a single central rivet towards the base of the object. The terminal end has a small crescent shaped area of gilded decoration which is reminiscent of a 'swag'. The reverse is plain except for the single rivet.
Created on: Monday 7th February 2005
Last updated: Friday 10th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-5C8176
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A very unusual copper-alloy possible mount, most likely to be late early-medieval or Viking Age, 11th century in date, as it has Ringerike-style decoration. It is flat and measures 55mm in length and 30mm in width. Its plate is roughly rectangular in shape overall, with shaped edges. One terminal end has a central solid three-dimensional triangular projection or prong which curves up slightly from the plane of the plate; this is 15mm in length, 8mm in width and 7mm in thickness. The object resembles a bird, as it has oval incisions representing eyes and a longitudinal groove pr…
Created on: Friday 18th February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thetford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-9BEAD7
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy plaque or book mount of probable early to mid early medieval date. The piece measures 27.13mm long by 26.33mm wide and 2.91mm thick. It weighs 7.90g. The plate has three complete roughly circular piercings, measuring between 2.54mm and 2.73mm in diameter. There is also evidence of possibly another roughly circular hole to the right of, and in line with, the lower of the three remaining holes. The upper surface is decorated with knotwork which appears to be of Romilly Allan type 601. The knotwork is enclosed within a border composed of ovate beads,…
Created on: Monday 21st February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bletsoe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-B3A981
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Pendant Early Medieval 975-1075 Length 43mm, width 24mm, thickness 4mm The main section of the mountis a rough hexagonal with a diameter of approximately 24mm. Protruding from the centre of one of the sides is arm 20mm long that has an attachment loop at its terminal. The object is in Urnes style and comprises an animal head on the arm with its body incorporated with in the main hexagonal section of the pendant. This is surrounded by a number of smaller curving lines, probably the body or bodies of one or more snakes which curve in, out around the main animal. There is also a spir…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd February 2005
Last updated: Sunday 6th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cotswolds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-3288E6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A roughly circular openwork mount in the form of a coiled serpent-like animal, the head and neck forming a projection. The head has prominent eyes and a snub nose. The neck runs into a spiral hip where the body bifurcates. The main body is intertwined with tendrils and is decorated with small pits which have been infilled with niello. Four rivets survive, each c11mm long, and there may have been more originally. These utilise the openwork holes, none of which seem specifically intended to take a rivet. Two of the rivets still retain sub-circular roves or washers about half of each of …
Created on: Monday 28th February 2005
Last updated: Saturday 13th September 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-6FC3F0
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A middle Anglo-Saxon diamond-shaped, gilded, decorative mount. All the edges are broken. There is a rivet in place at one end of the mount, with a broken strip of cu alloy once held along the length of the reverse surface. A second rivet hole is at the other end and a possible third hole can be seen just off centre. The objects decoration suggests it has been made from a larger object.
Created on: Thursday 3rd March 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 19th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brooke Survey Field A2', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-6271A2
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Complete cast copper alloy 'shoe-shaped' mount of Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date. Probably fifth to mid-seventh century (AD 450 - AD 600). Length 26mm, width 9.5mm and 2mm thick. Weight 2.07g. In plan, the front face of the mount is slightly convex and is in the form of a crescent surmounting a truncated diamond shape. The rear face is flat and has an integral sub-rectangular perforated lug, 5.5mm in length, 5mm in width and 2mm thick. The perforation is circular and is about 2mm in diameter. On the front face, near the curved end, is a green deposit of copper alloy corrosion. Th…
Created on: Wednesday 20th April 2005
Last updated: Saturday 17th December 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newchurch Parish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-8E1C04
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Published
A gilded copper alloy mount in the form of a human head. The face is straight sided and the details are simply shown, with incised circles for eyes, and a small ellipse for the mouth. There are two curved grooves either side of the nose, which may be a moustache or the fortuitous survival of the gilding. The head is topped by a rounded helmet or hat, the sides of which have incised lines parallel to the brim, but these are worn away at the front. The headdress appears to have flat, curved additions framing the face and a semi circular crest at the top, both with the grooved lines. The…
Created on: Friday 22nd April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 23rd August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Westcroft', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-F72627
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper alloy mount (6th century). The mount is a flat disc; the front surface is decorated with an engraved interlocking zoomorphic design - Style I. The reverse surface has five small rounded projections, probably rivets, all are broken across the shank. The pattern on the front comprises two snakes hooked around each other with the tail from each tail curved around on itself. The heads have open mouths and a ring represents the eye. There are traces of gilding present within the depressions of the engravings. Leslie Webster and Sonja Marzinzik, Bri…
Created on: Monday 9th May 2005
Last updated: Monday 13th March 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-07A2A4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Anglo-Saxon zoomorphic terminal made of silver and partly gilded The terminal is hollow-cast, with a pyramidal socket of rectangular section which would perhaps originally have held a wooden rod. On the narrower sides are two 4mm-long tapering extensions, which could have accommodated ridges on the rod. These are also zoomorphic, and although worn, the shape of the muzzles, the eyes and upright ears can still be made out. A single large silver rivet with a rounded head is still in situ across the socket, running between the wider sides of the rectangle. The tapering end is in th…
Created on: Tuesday 10th May 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 25th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Ilsley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-088222
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy Urnes-style mount from furniture or harness, very corroded cast openwork, decorated with an elaborate sinuous dragon-like beast in combat with a snake. The head of the beast faces left with open curling beak-like mouth, curved neck and horizontal body at the base of the sub-rectangular plate (33 x 40mm), the remainder of which is filled with beasts tail with trefoil terminal resting behind its curving neck and the interlaced body of the snake in a familiar motif of the Urnes style. There are six smaller holes around the outer edge, three of which contain corrode…
Created on: Tuesday 10th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mautby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-206A51
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy staple fitting, possibly from a bucket. The object is formed from a sheet which has slightly raised edges and tapers in width from 11mm in its centre to 3mm near its edge. The object has been folded twice to form three sides of a square and has bent over edges. It has a greenish body colour with a brown surface, which suggests it is of a considerable age.
Created on: Wednesday 11th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WAW-1D06D3
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The object is of an unknown function, but is obviously for decorative purposes. The date is uncertain, the heavy dark green patina does suggest it is of some age, perhaps Early Medieval or Medieval, but the execution and design perhaps suggests a later date. The object, in plan forms an elongated ‘C’ shape. The exterior edges of the object are abraded, and therefore not the original edges. The interior edges are complete and not abraded. The object is slightly convex, thereby the reverse is slightly concave, but the curvature is not immediately noticeable. One face is dec…
Created on: Monday 23rd May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-4997F4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Irish Gilt copper alloy mount. The mount is flat and in the form of a long animals neck terminating with two open-mouthed beasts in profile. The neck of the beast is roughly rectangular and is decorated with a gilt chip-carved panel. Two triangular ears are depicted, one in each corner, next to which the large oval eyes are located. The snouts and lower jaws are each decorated with a row incised lines, the snouts terminating with an upturned snout. There is a rivet hole in between the two heads at the terminal. The object may be from a harness mount.
Created on: Wednesday 25th May 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 7th December 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-00E3A6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon harness mount: bar mount (15 x 61mm) with projecting opposed cusped mouldings in centre, tapering towards perforated trefoil terminals (one damaged), both of which retain angled inwards and burred-over copper alloy separate rivets (length 6mm). Ringerike style engraved decoration comprises bordering line within which are three pairs of transverse lines, one in centre and one at both ends. 11th century. Other comparable Norfolk objects have been recorded from Horningtoft (HER 42698, NMS-612A52), Oxborough (HER 1021, NMS-C7FD43), North Lopham (HER 30954, NMS-8B8393), Rou…
Created on: Friday 3rd June 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 12th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Whissonsett', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-02A7E0
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon mount from furniture, worn and corroded, cast rectangular openwork plate (20 x 49mm), convex with hollow reverse from side to side, and slightly curved in same way from end to end, elaborate decorated with Urnes style zoomorphic interlace, one corner broken, single rivet-hole in each surviving corner, one containing copper alloy rivet (length 7mm). Mid-late 11th century. See Gurney 2005, fig. 8 C for drawings of this piece in three projections with a cross-section.
Created on: Friday 3rd June 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elsing', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-9775A4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy object, a mount of some sort. Oval fixing loop projects from top edge of ovoid decorative projection. A section of decorated mount survives below and to one side of this. An integral knop projects from the reverse, slightly off centre.
Created on: Friday 10th June 2005
Last updated: Saturday 1st June 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-E92C94
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Saxon Urnes-style furniture fitting or harness mount, worn and corroded cast openwork, decorated with an elaborate sinuous dragon-like beast in combat with a snake. The head of the beast faces left with open curling beak-like mouth, curved neck and horizontal body at the base of the sub-rectangular plate (33 x 39mm), the remainder of which is filled with beasts tail with trefoil terminal resting behind its curving neck and the interlaced body of the snake in a familiar motif of the Urnes style. Many small holes, two at base broken, no rivets remain. Cf. similar mounts from Brampto…
Created on: Tuesday 14th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stratton Strawless', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-694706
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of an Early Medieval circular interlace mount or escutcheon (possibly a brooch, although the thickness suggests it is not a brooch). Wedge shaped fragment only, comprising roughly 30° of the circumference. It appears to be decorated with triple strand Style I or Style II zoomorphic interlace, surrounded by a beaded border, suggesting a 7th century date. There are no traces of gilding. The reverse is undecorated and there is no evidence for attachment (e.g. rivets/catchplate etc). However, a section of the rim is flattened and slightly bent towards the reverse. Length 16.20mm…
Created on: Monday 20th June 2005
Last updated: Monday 10th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Radcliffe on Trent', grid reference and parish protected.