Record ID: NLM-0D3D16
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy ring. Cast oval ring of round section, with surface patina which could permit a broad date range. Possibly for use with horse gear at any period. Suggested date: Unknown, Roman to Post-Medieval, 43-1800 Length: 46.0mm, Width: 42.1mm, Band Diameter: 5.4mm, Weight: 20.88gms
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Low Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-0012A3
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy ring of uncertain date and function. The object is circular in both plan and section. No decoration is evident. The metal has a brown patina and is worn. The object is 35.09mm in diameter, 4.77mm wide, 5.63mm thick and weighs 14.48g. Similar examples recorded with uncertain dates and function include YORYM-EE7A1E and YORYM-9A16DA. A further example, recorded as LANCUM-0B78D2, is described as a late Bronze to Early Iron Age "horse trapping" though no supporting evidence is cited. LANCUM-06AA41 also states that 'similar rings have been discovered i…
Created on: Thursday 11th January 2024
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Londesborough area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-432802
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete unidentified copper alloy spiked frame, probably part of a horse harness fitting of uncertain date.  The object comprises a bar with worn breaks at each end. At one end the bar is of trapezoidal cross-section which bends at broadly 100°s 15mm from the break into a gently curved outside edge which tapers into a circular cross section at the opposing break. There is a projecting triangular spike with a square-cross section extending from the outside edge broadly 11mm from the bend. The object has a brown patina. Length: 47.47mm; width: 6.02mm; thickness at spike:…
Created on: Thursday 21st December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-06F3CF
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy ring of uncertain function and date, but probably modern. About half the ring survives with worn breaks at each end. One end has a sub-triangular cross-section with a slightly bevelled convex internal edge. At the other end the cross-section at the break is oval due to wear and damage. There is a casting seam running centrally around the internal surface of the ring. There is no surviving decoration. There is surface damage with pitting across most of the surface but a section of the dark green glossy patina remains on one side. Measurements: length 26…
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LIN-67CEE6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A mount of uncertain age, possibly post-medieval to modern. The mount is circular and domed comprising six circular layers with a rounded knop at the apex. The reverse is concave with two integrally cast circular-sectioned rivets (8.30 mm in diameter). Reddish-brown patina with patches of dark green. Diameter: 61.64 mm; Weight: 93.05g Possibly a horse mount or furniture fitting dating from AD 1700-1900.
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WMID-557529
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A piece of copper alloy casting waste (Roman to late Medieval) that is reminiscent of a horse shape. The ‘horse’ has two legs with the feet turning inwards and a small, globular tail. The ‘head’ is large and facing towards the ‘tail’. The object is rough and uneven, with a mottled surface patina. Measurements: Length: 30.7mm   Width: 21mm Thickness: 10.2mm Weight: 10.65g
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: OXON-49AD2D
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A warped copper alloy ring with pointed oval cross section and slightly uneven thickness of unknown date. It has a red green colour. The ring in its warped state is 34.4mm long, 14.5mm wide, 2mm thick and weighs 1.85 grams. Such rings are largely undatable and can be as early as Iron Age, but it is most likely a Medieval to Post-Medieval horse harness ring, possibly to link two straps given how it is worn in two places.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlbury CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-91CD1E
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy ring or finger ring of unknown date. The object is circular and both the outer and inner egdes of the ring are bevelled creating a lozenge shaped section. The object has a smooth dark green patina and is undecorated. Dimensions: Diameter 22.8mm; thickness 2.4mm; weight 1.61g A similar example is WILT-D43108 which comments: Similar rings have been discovered in a number of Bronze Age hoards and have been suggested as horse harness fittings, as being part of the handles of a sheet-metal cauldron of Class A1 (Type Tul-na-cross) and Class B1 (Types Llyn Fawr, Ballyshannon…
Created on: Tuesday 1st August 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-55B843
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy strap fitting of uncertain date. The object is a horizontally flattened, sub-oval loop shape with one side slightly straighter than the other. It has a pointed oval cross-section. There are areas of greater wear on each longer side, perhaps where a strap was attached originally, suggesting that it may be a section of horse gear. The surface of the metal is heavily worn and corroded. Without further diagnostic details the object is difficult to date precisely as loops such as these were used as strap and harness fittings from the Iron Age onwards. 
Created on: Wednesday 5th July 2023
Last updated: Friday 17th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-ABE756
Object type: BELL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Leeds
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small incomplete cast copper alloy spherical bell (a rumbler or crotal bell, possibly used for on horse harness or as a dress accessory due to the suspension mount also partially surviving. The date is uncertain and could be early Medieval to post medieval, AD 900 - 1600. There is a sub-square hole in the side of the bell resulting in one quarter of the bell now missing along with half of the sound slot in the lower hemisphere. The remaining bell has an integral cast suspension loop along with two circular sound holes in the upper hemisphere (there were probably three …
Created on: Monday 3rd April 2023
Last updated: Monday 8th May 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-A14EF1
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy unidentified artefact, probably a harness fitting or bit link of Early-Medieval Anglo-Scandinavian date or alternatively an incomplete bow and part of the shank from a key (locking) of Roman date. See WILLIAMS, D. 2007 F.R.G. Datasheet 39, Anglo-Scandinavian Horse Harness Fittings & https://finds.org.uk/counties/findsrecordingguides/bit-links/ . Also see https://finds.org.uk/counties/findsrecordingguides/keys/ and PAS records: SF-F573C2 & less like SF-072683.  The example recorded here weighs 19.55g, it has …
Created on: Saturday 25th February 2023
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WAW-E46334
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an unidentified cast copper alloy object, possibly decorated with a feature of the head and upper body of a horse. Date unknown. Measurements are as follows: width 25.7mm, height 21.4mm, thickness 3.9mm, and weight is 7.27g.
Created on: Saturday 4th February 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 14th March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Powick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-FFBE96
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy single loop sub-rectangular buckle frame, pin missing, with forward projecting off-set bar. The dating of these are uncertain. Single loop rectangular buckles can date from c.AD1300 to at least AD1500, see Whitehead R. 2003, pp.26-27, nos.126-133. The recorder suspects that these buckles with forward projecting off-set bars are likely to be for use with horse harness, the dating possibly extending to at least the first half of 20th century AD?  This would give a wide date range of Medieval to the early Modern period. The thinking being that items use…
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Cambridgeshire District Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-CF941F
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy unidentified object, possibly a mount or fitting of uncertain date, possibly Roman to medieval. The object is in the form of a curved quadruped (possibly a horse/goat) with a hind leg and rump that narrows at the waist and widens and thickens towards the chest area. A short sub-rectangular stump projects from the chest area, most likely all that remains of  a head. At the hind leg and lower chest area, project thinner trapezoid-shape plate that step down from the body (4.39 mm thick and 3.62 mm respectively. One of the trapezoid…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bigby area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-FBD3E3
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small copper alloy object, possiby a hook-attachment from a Medieval to post medieval spur dating from AD 1250 - 1700. The object is a circular plate of copper alloy with two projectoins opposite each other. One projection curves back from the plate and is wider where it meets the plate. The other is narrower and straighter. There are three holes through the plate; one central one which is circular and 1.7mm diameter, and two smaller holes, flanking the larger one, in a line between the two projections. The object is 19.3mm long, 15.5mm wide, 3.6mm thick and weighs 1.35g. It has…
Created on: Monday 31st October 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-31A483
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval giled copper-alloy horse-harness pendant in the form of a lion passant guardant to dexter. It is flat on the reverse and convex on the front. A bar projects upward from the centre of the animal’s back and terminates in a worn break but presumably once led to a suspension loop. On the way it connects with the tail, which arches over the back and then doubles back. The head is sub-square with two large sunken rings for eyes, each containing a central pellet, and a straight horizontal groove for a mouth. There are very small knops on the top left and right for ears. Th…
Created on: Tuesday 27th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-88978D
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete crescent shaped copper-alloy object of uncertain date.  Possibly a horse harness fitting such as a fitting from a fly terret. There is a very neat, central, circular, screw-threaded socket hole on the underside of the crescent which possibly suggests a Post-Medieval to Modern date (c. AD 1800-1950) although this is not definitive. The surface is patinated green consistent with copper-alloy corrosion. There are also patches of orange-brown corrosion on one side. The patina could possibly indicate an earlier date than suggseted above. Measurement…
Created on: Wednesday 7th September 2022
Last updated: Friday 10th March 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-25D536
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy ring of uncertain function dating from the Roman to Post-Medieval era (AD 43-1800). The ring is circular and plain with a slightly oval cross section. It has significant wear in two areas of the internal edge. It has a glossy deep green patina and no sign of decoration. Measurements: external diameter: 45.15mm; width of band: 4.87mm to 3.32mm; thickness of band: 4.45mm to 3.35mm and weight: 9.87g.  Due to the nature of the find, these objects are hard to accurately date it unless found in a specific archaeological context. …
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 9th August 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-101F37
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy cast ring of uncertain date. The cast ring is circular and oval in cross-section. It is worn and narrows width from 4.59mm on one side to 2.69mm on the opposing side where there is a break in the ring. The object has a dark green, glossy patina. Diameter: 25.95mm; thickness: 3.38mm; weight:4.86g. Rings of this form are difficult to date and identify due to the fact that they could perform a variety of utilitarian functions. Similar examples have been assigned dates ranging between the Bronze Age and Post Medieval and have been associated with a range of objects i…
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: GAT-94C253
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Isle of Anglesey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy mount. The mount is circular in form, with a single attachment lug located centrally on the reverse. The front of the mount is decorated with red enamel. Several curving linears run from a central circle out to the circumference of the disc. These would have likely been decorated with enamel, but this is now lost.    the find is likely a decorative mount, possibly a horse harness fitting. 
Created on: Thursday 21st July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 21st July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Llanfaethlu', grid reference and parish protected.