Record ID: PUBLIC-6EDA75
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead object, possibly a gaming piece of later Early-Medieval date. It is solid and pentagonal in shape with a circular base. The piece has been moulded with five roughly spaced vertical sides. Each side panel measures 10.3mm in width at the base of the piece. The panels culminate at the tip of the piece which has been slightly flattened. The triangular side sections are separated by a crude edge, that have been deliberatley, if crudely formed. The top of the object has no decoration, nor does the base. The piece measures 17.06mm in length, 15.05mm in diameter at base, and weigh…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd March 2016
Last updated: Friday 4th March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Eversden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-F04AC8
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Terminal of a Viking -period silver ingot. Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content for the ingot terminal of 98%, the remainder being copper, gold and lead. This surface analysis is likely to give a slight overestimate of the silver content of the core metal, as corrosion alters the composition of the surface of the ingot by preferentially leaching out copper. The fragment weighs 21.66 grams. The find consists of the terminal of a silver rectangular bar ingot of rectangular section with a rounded oblique end; it is half cut …
Created on: Tuesday 9th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-E922F6
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead weight or gaming piece, dating to the Early Medieval period (850 - 950 AD). The object is in the form of a truncated cone, circular base and tapering sides, with a flattened top. Five knops projection from the top, giving the object a castellated appearance. It measures 32mm in diameter. A similar example is recorded on this database; FAKL-CED235.
Created on: Wednesday 16th October 2013
Last updated: Friday 13th June 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-949254
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A fragment of unidentified silver artefact. The fragment is almost rectangular, but the two longer cut edges are slightly oblique, forming in fact a parallelogram. The upper surface is smooth and generally flat but very slightly undulating, as if hammered. Each of the short original edges has two raised integrally cast pellets, one at each corner. These pellets have a diameter of 4 to 4.5mm, sloping sides and a flat top; they look rather like imitation rivet heads; one is set within a very slightly lowered square. The reverse surface is undecorated and undulates a little …
Created on: Thursday 26th April 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 10th September 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-0D8A07
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete lead object, possibly an early-medieval gaming piece or perhaps a weight. It is small and solid, conical with six unevenly faceted sides tapering to a peak, which has a small knop and possibly the rounded remains of two more. In good condition, it measures 13.3 mm in height, 10.5mm wide at the base, and weighs 7.2g. It is possibly a crude version of SWYOR-DAF61B, which may be a Viking-age gaming piece (see this record for discussion of this possibility). The most elaborate and neatly made of this type of object (e.g. also WAW-7A7653, PUBLIC-155762, SF-E3F1E0, perhaps LVP…
Created on: Thursday 8th December 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 12th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-9A7372
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Early Medieval copper-alloy and lead Viking weight, dating to c.850-1000 AD. The weight is globular, in the shape of a flattened sphere, and one of the flat ends has a roughly circular shallow depression which contains traces of a white gritty substance, probably corroded lead. There are no other marks ,and the weight is in otherwise good condition. It measures 34.9mm in diameter,thickness 28.3mm, and weighs 223.2g.
Created on: Saturday 3rd December 2011
Last updated: Thursday 23rd August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-628CF0
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Viking ingot. Weight 17.65g, length 34.43mm, width 13.27mm, thickness 6.77mm. See TAR 2007, p.109, 110, 111, 355, 356, 357 no.s 206 PAS YORYM-C89482 2007T445, no.211 PAS SF-E8A3A6 2007T714 & no.213 PAS NMGW-9C2070, Wales 07.17. See TAR 2005/6, p.84, 85 & 332-333, no.227 2006T39, no.228 2006T204, no.229 2005T455, no.230 2006T57, no.232 2005T392, no.233 2006T192 & no.234 2005T539. See TAR 2004, p.75 & 261, fig.100 2004T224, fig.101 2004T471. See TAR 2003, p.65 & 212, fig.82 2003T293, fig.83 2003T48. See TAR 2002, p.51, fig.37 2002T116. See TAR 2001, p.47 fig.6…
Created on: Thursday 25th August 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 15th August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cambridgeshire Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-414ED6
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval silver halfpenny of St Edmund Memorial type (North 485 although type same as North 483/1 listed for penny only), probably belonging to the middle or late phase of minting (c. AD905-20), mint: East Anglia, no moneyer listed. Ref: North 1994: 109; Naismith 2017: 290-2. Dimentions: Weight 0.48g, Diameter 13.15mm, Thickness 0.79mm Die Axis 9 o'Clock. Obverse shows, Cross Pattee Obverse Legend reads: SCEADI, with Cross Pattee initial mark. Reverse shows, Capital A with chevron. Reverse legend reads: SCEAD, with Cross Pattee initial mark. The use of the…
Created on: Thursday 10th February 2011
Last updated: Monday 16th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carlton Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-A32F23
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gold finger-ring of the Viking period. Surface metal analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate gold content for the ring of 35-40% and a silver content of 55-60%, the remainder being copper; it weighs 3.84 grams. The hoop of the ring is made of a lozenge-section rod which tapers to the back where the ends are drawn into wires which overlap and are wound once round each other; diameter, 26 mm (max). Both outer faces are decorated most of the way round with a row of punched circles and there is also a single circle on one of the inner faces next to the knot.…
Created on: Thursday 17th June 2010
Last updated: Monday 4th September 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Weston Colville', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-371E87
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy openwork domed front plate from a disc brooch, decorated in a fusion of Borre and Jellinge style. The decoration shows a beast with a thin body weaving under and over itself to form a triangular shape, and with the hind foot gripping the foreleg. On the back of the object are the lug and catchplate but the pin is missing. Diameter: 32.25mm, thickness: 1.68mm, weight 7.17g. Jane Kershaw has identified this as a Scandinavian object, a Jellinge-style disc brooch of Jansson's Type I A1 (Jansson in Arrwidsson 1984). These are decorated with a single profile Jellinge-style a…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd April 2008
Last updated: Monday 5th March 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-6F5256
Object type: GAMING PIECE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead complete Viking gaming piece. It is hollow and circular in cross-section, it measures 16mm in height and 12.8mm in base diameter. It tapers towards its upper terminal end, which has three rounded projections. A similar, though solid, possible gaming piece has been found at Long melford, Suffolk see SF-C01997, and a hollow very similar example has also been found close to this example at Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, see SF-6F7361. An alternative function of these objects would have been as weights rather than gaming pieces. These objects have been found in large numbe…
Created on: Friday 25th November 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 4th April 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Little Wilbraham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM636
Object type: INGOT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Created on: Monday 7th September 1998
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FENLAND', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM638
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Both ends flattened and with traces of rivets, very schematic incisions to form heads. Viking.
Created on: Monday 7th September 1998
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FENLAND', grid reference and parish protected.