Record ID: HAMP-30F0CC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early early-medieval copper-alloy radiate-headed brooch dating to the 6th century. The base of the foot and pin are missing; the spring survives as a corroded area of iron. The catchplate has been damaged and repaired in antiquity. The object has a semi-circular headplate with semi-cylindrical projections at 12, 3 and 9 o'clock (when viewing with the head uppermost). These are decorated on the curving front with transverse grooves and resultant ridges. The body of the headplate is decorated with punched ring-and-dot motifs arranged in three rows: one at the top, five at…
Created on: Friday 28th April 2017
Last updated: Monday 19th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Itchen Valley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-A55756
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval Merovingian silver denier dating c.720-750 the obverse copying a Secondary Phase sceat of Series O (bmc type 38), the reverse showing a Parisian cross ancrée; mint unknown but probably from Northern Francia or Frisia (cf. MEC631 which shows same design although obverse bird is walking left rather than right). Obverse: Bird with long beak (?curlew) and forked tail, walking right, pellet above and below neck; in tapering torc ending with large pellet, surrounded by elaborate borders, within pellet border. Reverse: Parisian cross ancrée, with pellets; within pelle…
Created on: Friday 21st October 2016
Last updated: Thursday 3rd November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Houghton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-E6FCB4
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Frankish early medieval scabbard chape dating to the period c. AD 400 - 600. The scabbard chape is trefoliate in shape and consists of a central anthropomorphic terminal flanked by two zoomorphic terminals. Only the front plate remains and terminates in a old break at the end of the central terminal. For a complete example of similar design see HAMP-4CBF82. The central longitudinal bar terminates in a stylised human head moulded in low relief. The hair is indicated by a number of fine longitudinal incised lines and is divided from the rest of the fac…
Created on: Tuesday 21st January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 20th February 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-4CBF82
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper-alloy Frankish (early-medieval) zoomorphic and anthropomorphic scabbard chape of c. 5th-/6th-century date. It consists of a sub-trefoilate front plate that curves at its base into a thin back prong riveted to the front plate through a small perforated loop at the apex. At the base is a flat biconical knop with collar above. The trefoil plate can be divided into a central longitudinal bar which terminates at the attachment end in a human face moulded in low relief, at the top of which the pierced loop already mentioned. Two lateral protrusions emerge from the c…
Created on: Monday 7th March 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 14th December 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-72CF23
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy openwork Frankish scabbard chape of Menghin's Type 3a. The slightly worn decorative details comprise a human head, probably helmeted, with ring-and-dot eyes. Above the eyes are vertical grooves above a horizontal band. On each side of the head is a beaked bird-like head, each with a voided eye. Between these heads is a narrow extension which emerges from a V-shaped terminal and which curves around the back of the object to end in a triangular expansion. This forms a clasp for the scabbard. Other examples of this type of scabbard chape can be found on the PAS data…
Created on: Wednesday 25th July 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 9th August 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-ABA5F3
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a copper-alloy Frankish (early-medieval) zoomorphic and anthropomorphic scabbard chape of c. 5th-/6th-century date. The upper surface is generally convex and the reverse is flat so that the object is generally D-shaped in cross-section. The object is broken and would originally have had a broadly trefoil-shaped plate: representing a central human head flanked on each side by curved elements which terminate in birds' heads. The central lobe is generally oval and the surviving side lobe/arm is generally semi-circular. The second side lobe/arm is missing. There are two in…
Created on: Wednesday 29th September 2004
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winchester', grid reference and parish protected.