Record ID: IOW-9CF27A
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy steelyard weight of uncertain date. The weight is roughly conical in section and sub-circular in plan. There is an iron shank protruding from the top. The sides are uneven and slightly scuffed.
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-884200
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Early Medieval copper alloy rectangular mount, c.AD 500-700. This is a fragment of a rectangular mount with raised zoomorphic decoration. The mount is sub-rectangular in plan with flat faces. The upper surface has a plain border, with an one- to three-stranded interlaced zoomorphic decoration in the form of at least one creature. The ends and sides are damaged and end in old breaks. Gilding survives on the upper surface. The reverse is flat and undecorated with little of the patina surviving.
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-883CE1
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper alloy pin, c.AD 700 - 900. The pin has a flat irregular lozenge or hexagonal shaped head, with three ring-and-dot decorations stamped in a triangle on both faces of the pin head. There is a single ring-and-dot decoration on the sides of the pin head. From the base of the head a rectangular-sectioned shaft, which appears to have a subtle narrowed collar and ends in an old break. The metal has a dark brown patina. The type is recorded by Haldenby (2012, 3). Comparable examples, with variable arrangements of ring-and-dot decoration are recorded on th…
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-882118
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount, c.AD 1000-1100. This mount is sub-triangular with convex sides and a horizontal base. At the top is an integral tri-lobed apex attachment loop and at the base of the mount are two more rivet holes, which are in-filled with rusted iron. The front of the mount has a border surrounding a moulded zoomorphic decoration in the form of a lion facing upwards with left paw raised and tail curled between the legs and over the back. The lion's jaws are open wide and grasping an object extending into the top loop. The rear face is …
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-858677
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval silver penny of Offa of Mercia (757-96), Light Coinage, dating c.784-92, moneyer: Winoth, mint: London (North 288). Ref: North 1994: p.86. A very similar coin has been found on the PAS database here: WILT-7FF13B.
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-83F90E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle. Cast single looped-shaped buckle with an expanded and thickened outer edge and with a biting beast head at either end of a narrowed strap bar; a groove serves as a pin rest. A narrow rectangular slotted plate of thickness 0.5mm with a rounded end flanked by spurs on the display side is looped round the strap bar and was secured by three rivets, one passing through the rounded terminal of the plate. A rectangular section pin passes through the slot in the plate and is looped round the frame. Plate now crumpled. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 1000-1100 Length: 32.6…
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-74F5B5
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Anglo-Scandinavian cast copper-alloy bridle bit link of early medieval date. It has a rectangular shaft that is D-shaped in section with flat back and rounded front face which has a rounded boss before the incomplete end. At the complete end, there is a knobbed loop. Length 41.21mm, width 20.38mm, weight 9.99g. Similar examples are recorded through the Portable Antiquities Scheme (see for example SF-DD8A4E, SF-59F6E2, SF-C06A13, SF-F8CCA3) and have been studied by D. Williams, who suggests their possible use as harness links and dating to the 11th century …
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burgh', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-73C607
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold pendant. A folded and crumpled discoid plate, plain on the back which is the exposed part, but with a series of flattened twisted wire loops of length 3mm passing beneath larger bosses on its display side, the latter features perhaps formed as hemispherical half-beads equipped with channels to permit the passage of the strands. An outer order of conjoined loops is discerned, with an indeterminate continuation of similar motifs on the obscured part of the pendant. A more finely cabled border of thickness 1.1mm ran round the outer edge of the disc, though worn, and is interrupted, p…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Winteringham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-739205
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy harness fitting dating to the early medieval period (c.AD 1000-1100). The object consists of a domed, concave centre that is decorated with an incised ring and dot in the centre of the dome. Protruding from opposite sides are two rounded knops. Extending from the other two opposite sides are two arms that have a D-shaped section and narrow slightly before curving outwards and terminating in a worn break. The reverse is flat and indecorated, it is concave at the central dome. The object has a corroded dark brown patina. Dimensions: Length 47.9mm; wifth …
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-72B0E6
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy strap end dating to the late early-medieval period, c. AD 1000-1100. The object consists of a flat sub-trapezoidal plate with a projecting shaft, terminating with a split end joined by a small pin. The edges of the plate are worn with breaks marking areas which are now lost. The shaft is thicker and decorated with unclear ridges which extend diagonally down the sides of the shaft. Much of the shaft is split into two flat plates. These are joined near the terminal of the object by a thin pin with the ends of this pin visible on the exterior edg…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-71C14D
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end fragment. The inner end of a tongue-shaped openwork strap end, Thomas Class E Type ?2, with addorsed kidney-shaped holes with a single attachment hole between them, and with a horizontal bar separating this field of decoration from its neighbour. Suggested date: 850-1000 Length: 28.8mm, Width: 22.3mm, Thickness: 2.6mm, Weight: 5.52gms
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-7122F5
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and iron buckle. Cast D-shaped buckle with an expanded and thickened outer edge, with a mass of ferrous corrosion from the decay of its iron pin. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 1000-1100 Length: 16.9mm, Height: 16.7mm, Thickness (frame): 3.7mm, Weight: 4.08gms
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Pocklington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-703BA0
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy buckle of Early-Medieval date, c.AD 650 - 750. The buckle is D-shaped with a bevelled outer edge, narrowed bar, and half-round pin recess. The upper surface is decorated with a series of ten (10) sub-rectangular cells of red, yellow and white enamel. The bar is flanked by three narrow transverse rectangular cells, the outer two bear yellow enamel, the centre one has white enamel. A hinge loop projects from the outer flat edge of the frame, behind the bar. The remains of a second hinge loop are present at the opposite end of the bar. This is broken and worn.…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-6E0181
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy sword pommel of Petersen's Type S. It is comprised of five lobes, a larger central one and two of diminishing sizes set either side of this. There is the remains of the fixing in the top of the pommel and a hole through it. Inside are possible remains of wood and perhaps some of the fixing. According to Leahy and Lewis (2018: 328), this style of pommel is of an English type but is also attributed to Viking use. Parallels include WAW-C104D7, SWYOR-D14F67, all dated to AD 900-1100 Dimensions: It is 49mm long and 22mm high, 17.5mm wide and weighs 53.0g
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 15th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wigglesworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-5F08DF
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver continental sceat, c.AD 695-740, Series E (North 150, Spink 790 - end date as of Spink 2003). Worn on both faces, slight damage around edges. Obverse: Porcupine type with triangular leg and pellets. Reverse: Standard type with two Ts and central annulet.
Created on: Monday 4th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-5F01DC
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver penny of Coelwulf I of Mercia (c.AD 821-823), AD 821-823 (North 376, Spink 924 - end date as of Spink 2003), Moneyer of Eanwulf or Ealhstan, Rochester mint. Worn on both faces, no clipping, missing two thirds of the legend due to an old break. Obverse: Bust facing right. Legend: [+ CEOLVVLF] REX m Reverse: Cross with wedges. Legend: EA[... MO]NETA
Created on: Monday 4th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-5EF1A2
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver continental sceat, c.AD 695-740, Series E (North 150, Spink 787 - end date as of Spink 2003). Worn on both faces, slight damage around edges. Obverse: Porcupine type with triangular leg. Reverse: Standard type with four lines and central annulet.
Created on: Monday 4th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

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: SF-1B00D9
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy two-part harness pendant, medieval and circa 1300-1500 century in date, consisting of an outer pendant frame and a solid inner pendant. The outer pendant frame is shaped like a six-petalled flower with a suspension loop set at right angles to the plane of the pendant. The suspension loop is at the terminal of a two parallel rectangular shafts, which projects from the top of the middle of the central petal. The outer pendant measures 46.1mm in length and 28.4mm in width. The inner pendant is also a circular six-petalled flower, each petal fitting inside a large…
Created on: Friday 1st March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Finningham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-1AB887
Object type: CHAPE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
This is an incomplete scabbard chape of Early-Medieval date, possibly an end protector for a knife scabbard. It finds parallels in a number of examples recorded through the PAS (e.g. LIN-E5C477, SF-0E88A2, HAMP-1DA880 or WAW-03F886) and is of probable c.11th century AD date. It depicts a possibly a bear-like creature or man with a straight bar behind and above the figure, the lower part is missing due to old breaks. It is 35.2mm length, 15.8mm width, 2.1mm thickness, 4.34g.
Created on: Friday 1st March 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Creeting St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.