Record ID: SUR-1B07F4
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy early medieval hooked tag dating to c. AD 800 - 1000 and cf. Read's (2008) Class B, type 1. The tag is triangular in shape with two projecting and flanking attachment loops at the rear edge and a sharp hook with an angular collar projecting from the front end. The plate is decorated with concentric compass-inscribed circular ridges around a small annulet centre. 
Created on: Friday 1st March 2024
Last updated: Friday 1st March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-0B4B3C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early Medieval (Anglo Saxon) copper-alloy strap end of Thomas' Class A, Type 2. The plate is narrow and oval, expanding from the rear edge to a maximum width of 9mm before narrowing into a pointed zoomorphic terminal. The rear edge is split and incomplete having lost the facing side and the rear end, which has broken across a pair of rivet holes. The terminal has a well defined beast head, with concave sides to the snout and a well defined brow and long rounded ears behind.
Created on: Monday 5th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-926E60
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy zoomorphic strap end dating to the Early Medieval period (c. AD 800-1100), of Thomas class B type 1. The strap end is 41mm in length and has a triangular split end with a bilobed rear edge and two rivet holes infilled with the remains of rusted iron rivets. The terminal is in the form of a stylised animal head with simple moulded features with a transverse ridged collar behind. There is a second transverse ridged collar at the point where the rear end expands. The strap end has a flat reverse giving it a plano- convex cross section at the front and a …
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-12CCF2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An complete and possibly defaced early medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), Substantive Light Coinage, 'Profile/Cross of lobes' type (North 296; Chick 24) dating to c.AD784/5-92/3, moneyer: Dud(da), mint: London. Refs: North 1994: p.87; Chick 2010: pl. 4; Naismith 2017: p.134, table 9.  The coin is slightly bent and the obverse field shows numerous straight scratches across the portrait focusing on the area of the face. These appear to be deliberate suggesting that the coin has been defaced. Obverse OFFA REX. Bust Cc  draped with diadem, one &…
Created on: Friday 12th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-28F0AD
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy fragment, probably from a brooch of early Anglo-Saxon small long type dating to circa 450-550. The fragment consists of a projecting knop which is ovoid with circular cross section and which has a ridged collar where it meets the flat head plate of the brooch. Only a fragment of this plate is retained.
Created on: Tuesday 26th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-1CAFF3
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early-medieval (Anglo-Saxon), gilded copper alloy button brooch, 20mm in diameter, missing its spring and pin. The front is dished, with an everted rim, within which is an anthropomorphic mask executed in chip-carved relief. The mask sits within a raised border and is dominated by a T  shaped brow ridge and nose with small eyes in each angle, flanked by lozengiform cheeks and with an oval mouth below. Above the brow is a helmet with a pair of medial lines suggesting a ridged crest. The reverse has an in-line catchplate stump and lug for the pin, with traces …
Created on: Wednesday 13th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-DE9862
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy devolved Winchester style strap-end of late Anglo-Saxon date. The strap-end is tongue-shaped in plan and of elaborate, openwork form of foliate design. The uppermost portion is missing . The front is in moulded relief and the reverse is plain. See also SUSS-90188B
Created on: Sunday 10th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-7A4475
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval gilded copper alloy small radiate-headed brooch dating from the mid sixth century. The brooch has a semi-circular head plate decorated with chip-carved (Salin's Style I) geometric decoration comprising interlocking triangular cells. The head has a stump for a lost projection or knop at the end. The bow is short and arched with a carinated spine. The foot is triangular, tapering to a break a the end and has two long panels of zoomorphic decoration running along it, featuring small S-shaped beasts and less distinct elements. There are small flanking knops …
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-C8C11C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy and silver imitation of an early medieval silver penny of Æthelred II (AD 978-1016), Second Hand type (North 768), dating to c. AD 985-991, mint and moneyer uncertain owning to condition of coin. Ref: North 1994: p.158. The coin is an imitation rather than an official issue comprising a thin silver layer over a base metal core, probably of copper-alloy. The silver on the reverse of the coin is now missing removing any design and inscription which it once held. The style and execution of the coin's design is comparable to known finds and i…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-B4A5A8
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early Anglo-Saxon annular brooch, 38mm in external diameter and 18mm in internal diameter. The frame has a flat cross section with one side being decorated with a circuit of ring and dot motifs, flanked by bands of punched dots and with an external border of small triangular notches around the edge. The surface has traces of a white metal coating. There is a small pin hole set close to the inner edge; this has broken, possibly from wear and the pin has been lost. The brooch is badly bent and cracked. Circa late 5th to 6th century AD.
Created on: Monday 22nd May 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd May 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-9171E3
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper alloy probable mount, dating to c AD 630-660. It is an a-symmetrical sub-rectangular object, flat in section, with an early break at one end. The extant section flares slightly from the break and ends in a right hand curve, exaggerated on that side. The outer face has a chip-carved Early Insular style motif. The design is a mat-like interlace, showing a double-stranded 'ribbon', interlaced longitudinally from the rounded terminal, towards the break. The upper part of the extant design is interspersed wi…
Created on: Monday 8th May 2023
Last updated: Monday 24th July 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-45B905
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval silver penny of Edward the Confessor (1042-66), 'small flan' type (North 818; BMC ii; Hild. B) dating to c.AD1048-50 (Naismith's revised dating: late 1040s), moneyer: Cild, mint: Bedwyn (Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire). Refs: North 1994: 179; Naismith 2017: table 17.
Created on: Friday 17th March 2023
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-92C89C
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy button brooch of Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (c. 450-c. 550). The circular plate is complete but the pin and one lug is missing. The plate has and upturned flaring rim within which is a moulded anthropomorphic forward facing mask which has prominent and well defined features. The mask is set within a circular raised linear border. A fringe is represented at the top of the head with four central vertical ridges flanked by sub-triangular panels. Below is a horizontal, slightly convex, double ribbed, linear brow which dips ge…
Created on: Tuesday 31st January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st January 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-7FBB5A
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver early Medieval penny (sceat) of Series E Variety A . Cruciform reverse type dating to circa AD 700-760. Obverse: quilled crescent coiled right enclosing symbols that include: two bars, a cross pommee, and a chevron. Reverse: geometric elements within a  beaded square standard, Cross visible on one side. 
Created on: Friday 6th January 2023
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-4884D1
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval Saxon gilded copper alloy openwork pendant dating c. AD 550-700. The cast, flat, openwork pendant is circular with a worn projecting stub extending from the plate edge; probably the remains of a broken suspension loop orientated at right angles to the plate, the loop truncated at the base. The plate is decorated in moulded Style II relief comprising a central fish flanked by two confronted birds. The fish is facing upwards towards the suspension loop.  The body is decorated with two bands of four transverse grooves, …
Created on: Monday 28th November 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 31st January 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-4CF1D4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) silver penny of Ecgberht, king of Wessex (802-839), non-portrait type, dating to the period c. 828-839 AD. Minted by Beornehart at the West Saxon mint (probably Winchester). Similar to non portrait-type coin 589 in Jeffrey North's English Hammered Coinage (pg 119, plate 9 no. 25). The coin is broken nearly in half and is fragile but retains the central monogram and half of the lettering. The remaining inscription is clear. Obverse: Saxon Monogram with inscription [ +ECGBE ] ORHT REX Reverse: Cross pattee  with …
Created on: Wednesday 16th November 2022
Last updated: Saturday 10th December 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-A551E7
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early Medieval copper-alloy pin with a polyhedral head 8.1mm by 6.9mm. The head has 13 facets, decorated with four punched dots on each large side facet, a single ring and dot decoration to each of the eight small triangular corner facets and an incised cross on the upper facet. The shaft is c. 23mm in length, with circular cross section 1.9mm in diameter and has a bend towards the tip, which has been lost. There is a small ridged collar at the junction of the shaft with the head.
Created on: Thursday 27th October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-6F9D6B
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A early medieval silver penny of Eadgar the Peaceable (AD 959-975), pre-reform early portrait type dating to AD 959-973 (North 751), moneyer: ÆLfnoth, mint: London. Ref: North 1994: p.149. The coin is incomplete with the outer edge chipped removing parts of the beaded outer circle. The flan also has a small crack running from the edge through the outer circle inscription (around the D of EADGAR).
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd May 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-A24C14
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Saucer Brooch of Early-Medieval (Anglo Saxon) date (AD 400-600). The object is circular with moulded decoration in the form of a central ring-and-dot motif from which five running spirals radiate, surrounded by a circular border and an incomplete everted rim. The rear of the object is undecorated and has stumps of an in-line hinge lug and catchplate.  Similar examples can be seen on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database: HAMP-6667BE, BUC-810501 and SUSS-A9D105 and in MacGregor and Bolick (1993), p42-45, Fig. 2.12, Fig. 2.13, Fig. 2.14, Fig.2.16.
Created on: Monday 15th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 15th August 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Andover', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-25B8CC
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy gilded rectangular mount of early medieval (early Anglo Saxon, c. 6th century AD) date. The front has a chip-carved zoomorphic motif of Salin style I framed by a heavy linear border.  The interlaced ornament presents an elongated beast, with a body indicated by two sinuous curves of triple-ridged ribbon and with two curved limbs with four claws below. At the right / top end is a prominent eye within a D-shaped head, which has its jaws indicated by a line angled perpendicular to the long axis of the plate (so the beast perhaps faces either&nb…
Created on: Thursday 28th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd November 2022
Spatial data recorded.