Record ID: SUR-777720
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small cast copper alloy censer cover or finial mount, 45.4mm in height and of early Medieval / late Anglo Saxon (c11th - 12th century) date. It is of architectural form, resembling a square church tower, with a plinth at the base with two projecting rounded perforated lugs which contain rusted iron. These may be the remains of narrow rods which would have attached to a suspension chain, allowing the cover to be raised so that the bowl beneath could be filled with incense. The object is decorated in a simple style which is comparable to the Winchester style o…
Created on: Tuesday 9th March 2021
Last updated: Thursday 2nd March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Worplesdon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-053A11
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon suspension-unit from ?censer (or ?balance), comprising a short conical, round-sectioned spike and radiating from below its base three round-sectioned arms forming a T-shape with transversely pierced animal-head terminals. Although there is some similarity to a more commonly found medieval type of suspension-unit for a lamp or censer (e.g. the example illustrated in EAA 32, fig. 50, no. 2), it is closer to a pre-Conquest balance suspension-unit from York, see Mainman and Rogers (2000), Finds from Anglo-Scandinavian York (2000), 2559-2561, no. 10413. However, the piece de…
Created on: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Last updated: Saturday 2nd September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-A0DB6C
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a probable cast copper-alloy Medieval censer cover c. 1050 - 1200 AD. The fragment is from the top/cover of the censor. These are typically moulded in an 'architectural' form akin to a building, probably a church. The fragment has the look of the gable section of the representative roof. There are two clear partial holes and it is decorated with incised cross hatch and curved lines on all external surfaces. There is no clear 'edge' nor 'rim, to the fragment. The cover is comparable to WILT-B2BD06 AND HESH-8FC8F6 on this database, published in Geake (2005, 343-345; f…
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 25th July 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-5AA080
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a copper alloy openwork conical object, probably from the upper part of a medieval censer. The apex, where there would have been some form of suspension, is missing (break probably not old). There are three oval apertures in the sides and the scalloped base is broken across three round perforations (breaks old but with one area of recent damage). Some vertical grooves are scratched rather than decorative. Extant height and diamater 23 and 27.5mm. 12th - 13th century.
Created on: Saturday 3rd February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-B2BD06
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from a copper-alloy medieval censer cover (c. 12th century, possibly late 11th century). It represents the broken top of such a lid which would have been in a moulded, 'architectural' form: a building, probably a church. The object appears to be have a curved base. In the centre above this rise two short straight sides which are then angled to sharply towards each other to create a flat cover. This is the single complete gabled wing, with angled roof, from a square tower which would originally have had four such wings in a cruciform arrangement. The front of this element (g…
Created on: Tuesday 15th November 2016
Last updated: Friday 20th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-60C962
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken, bent and distorted fragment of a medieval copper alloy probable 'lid' or cover from a censer or lamp, comprising part of the rim of a cast openwork dome. The curved (now distorted) thicke…
Created on: Tuesday 19th April 2016
Last updated: Friday 4th December 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-ED401C
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a medieval copper alloy probable lid or cover from a censer or lamp, comprising a small part of a cast openwork dome. The curved thickened base, broken at both ends, is followed by an engraved groove, and two other grooves curve upwards between parts of two apertures to a break. Cf. other Norfolk examples, from Swannington (HER 42549, NMS-17D0A3) and Oxborough (HER 1021, NMS-8085A0). Diameter c.110mm. Extant height 15mm. Thickness 1.6 - 2.8mm. 12th - 13th century.
Created on: Wednesday 3rd June 2015
Last updated: Friday 24th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-7BCD4E
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim sherd of medieval cast copper alloy openwork censer-cover. The exterior is covered by engraved decoration, oblique, horizontal and vertical lines. There are traces of sooting on the worn surfaces. There is no extant aperture. The diameter cannot be accurately estimated. Extant height 20mm. Cf. fragments from Narford (HER 54758, HES-916F30) and Stanfield (HER 7241). Less close parallels have been recorded from Willingale, Essex (PAS ESS-5AD482) and Mundham (HER 28342, PAS NMS-896488). Altogether less impressive than objects such as the 12th century South Shropshire censer-cover (Re…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 28th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Catfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CBE1AB
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Medieval copper alloy censer-cover, multi-faceted, part of a hemispherical openwork dome with the remains of a rectangular perforation between two circular perforations. Ovoid lug, projects 14mm, 3mm thick, circular perforation internal diam.7mm. Surviving dimensions: height 20mm, width 33mm. Body 1.5mm thick. 12th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st May 2014
Last updated: Thursday 7th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-4C36D5
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Suspension unit probably for a Late Saxon censer (or possibly for a balance) comprising a short tapering spike of sub-square cross-sectioned and radiating from below its base three D-sectioned arms decorated with moulded transverse grooves and stylised animal-head terminals (one recently broken off but extant), on the underside of each of which there is the stump of an integral suspension loop. Width 28.5mm. Extant height 20mm. 10th - 11th century. For a similar piece from the same area of Norfolk see NMS-CF0E33, from Shotesham (HER 55191). CRP 28/1
Created on: Friday 7th February 2014
Last updated: Thursday 5th February 2015
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Record ID: NMS-684051
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a heavily cast medieval multi-faceted 'archictectural' censer-cover, comprising part of a gable end with a knop on the lower angle, the lower edge and sides of the obliquely angled gable have engraved oblique lines forming crude bordering zig-zags. The vertical gable end is broken across a perforation, the angled roof has the remains of the lower ends of two rectangular perforations above two circular perforations (the one nearest the knopped angle is complete). Below the gable and roof line is a small fragment of a slightly curved vertical angle of the side and end walls.…
Created on: Monday 27th January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 20th March 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-17D0A3
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a medieval copper alloy probable 'lid' or cover from a censer or lamp, comprising part of a cast openwork dome. The curved (now distorted) thickened base is broken at both ends and has an engraved median radial line. Two tapering broken integral elements project upward from the base and now have the appearance of running waves, and have prominent file marks on the edges. Diameter not measurable. Surviving width 48mm. Surviving height 13mm. 12th-13th century.
Created on: Tuesday 24th September 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 15th October 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-DFB8F0
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy censer-cover re-used as a weight, Winchester-style house-shaped decorated with cast openwork in four lozenge-shaped fields above, and the four sides below. The openwork body is filled with lead. Knob on top and smaller knop on each angle with the exception of the four angles at base, each of which has a projecting perforated lug (one broken). S and reversed S-shaped tendrils alternate on the four lozengiform fields. Three of the four sides are decorated with four curled tendrils and one has a five-branched frond (one branch is obscured by the lead filling). Hei…
Created on: Wednesday 28th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 19th September 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Watton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-471D68
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Suspension-unit probably from a censer or perhaps a balance, comprising a short conical, round-sectioned spike and radiating from below its base three concave-sided arched flat-sectioned arms with perforated ring-and-dot on splayed terminals. There is some broad similarity to a more commonly found medieval type of suspension-unit for a lamp or censer (e.g. the example illustrated in EAA 32, fig.50, no.2), and a pre-Conquest balance suspension-unit from York, see Mainman and Rogers (2000), Finds from Anglo-Scandinavian York (2000), 2559-2561, no.10413. However, the piece described h…
Created on: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Last updated: Friday 7th February 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-F9BE71
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim sherd of a medieval copper alloy censer cover with one horizontal lug or loop for a chain and part of one perforation. Decoration consists of a row of punched ring-and-dots between two horizontal engraved lines. At the mid point a change of angle shows that the object was polygonal. It is most likely to have been hexagonal (Tonnochy 1937). Extant height 33mm. Thickness 2mm. Dating is problematic but perhaps lies within the 12th or 13th century. Finder's field 4.
Created on: Wednesday 24th July 2013
Last updated: Monday 27th September 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-8085A0
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a medieval copper alloy 'lid' or cover from a censer or lamp, comprising part of a cast openwork dome, curved thickened base broken across two of three trapezoidal perforations with remains of two horizontal rows of opposed triangular perforations alternately point up and point down (two of each survive). Multliple file marks are present on the relatively smooth exterior surface, the interior surface is rough and unfinished. Diameter not measurable. Surviving width 24mm. Surviving height 23mm. 12th-13th century.
Created on: Monday 24th June 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-045235
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early-Medieval copper alloy suspension unit, probably for a censer. Short conical spike with three D-sectioned arms radiating from the base. Each arm has a D-shaped loop at its terminus on the underside, one of which is complete. There are three grooves around the base of the spike, across each arm at the spike end and two transverse grooves at the terminal end of each arm. Height: 21mm. Length of arms from centre of spike 16mm, 16mm and 19mm. 10th - 11th century. Similar to PAS: NMS-CF0E33 & NMS-60C4F4
Created on: Friday 11th January 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bradenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CF0E33
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Suspension unit for ?censer (or ?balance) comprising a short conical, round-sectioned spike, most of which is missing, and radiating from below its base three D-sectioned arms decorated with moulded transverse grooves and each terminating with a lug on the flat underside. The object is in rather abraded condition, and it is uncertain whether the lugs are complete and unpierced or whether transverse perforations have been lost. There is some broad similarity to a more commonly found medieval type of suspension-unit for a lamp or censer (e.g. the example illustrated in EAA 32, fig.50,…
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shotesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-916F30
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rim sherd of medieval copper alloy censer-cover, probably formed by beating and raising. The exterior is covered by engraved decoration, oblique, horizontal and vertical lines, a wavy line and short curved dashes. There are traces of sooting on the inner surface. There is no extant aperture. The diameter cannot be accurately estimated. Height 17mm. The decoration is almost identical to that on a fragment from Stanfield (HER 7241). Less close parallels have been recorded from Willingale, Essex (PAS ESS-5AD482) and Mundham (HER 28342, PAS NMS-896488). Altogether less impressive than obj…
Created on: Friday 3rd December 2010
Last updated: Sunday 7th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A9D926
Object type: CENSER
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of possible censer cover, worn, corroded and broken, hollow-backed openwork, part of cusped outside edge and perforated body with possible zoomorphic decoration, >29 x >30mm. Possibly 12th century.
Created on: Wednesday 11th November 2009
Last updated: Sunday 6th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cantley', grid reference and parish protected.