Record ID: HAMP-0C98EC
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval (1250-1300) copper alloy personal pointed-oval seal matrix with a pierced lug to the reverse. It measures 29.4mm in length, 18.1mm in max.width, 7.9mm in max.depth (at the loop) and weighs 6.36g. The matrix depicts a squirrel at the centre within a pointed-oval linear border. The squirrel lies longitudinally within the design, facing towards the start of the inscription. A rounded body with rounded foreleg and back leg (each terminating in a three-toed foot) are apparent, with a bushy tail (of raised V ribs either side of a central rib) curling up and over the back of …
Created on: Wednesday 27th April 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Horndean', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-8E85C7
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy zoomorphic terminal from a drop handle, of medieval date (c AD 1250-1500). The object is cylindrical, oval in cross-section, and in the shape of an animal head, perhaps a barking dog. There is a groove on either side of the neck, and a slight ridge around the neck which frames the head. The mask comprises almond-shaped eyes on either side of a snout which appears to terminate in two small holes. There are lines incised either side beneath the eyes which presumably represent an open mouth. The object is hollow with a hole which narrows from the back of the neck to the op…
Created on: Monday 9th February 2015
Last updated: Monday 16th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-58A23E
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval (1250-1300) lead pointed-oval seal matrix with a lug (unpierced) to the reverse. It measures 35.18mm in length, 20.90mm in max.width, 9.62mm in max.depth and weighs 12.69g. The matrix depicts a pair of pliers or tongs with a six-pointed star/ sexfoil * to one side and an openwork lozenge (possibly) to the other. Around, and within two linear borders, is the inscription + S'ROBERTI.FABRI. (the seal of Robert the Smith, or Robert Smith, FABRI being the Latin for Smith). To the reverse the projection is rectangular in shape and slightly bent to one side, with a rib r…
Created on: Monday 9th June 2014
Last updated: Saturday 22nd February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-A0905A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early (Anglo-Saxon copper alloy buckle frame, probably dating from the late 5th to early 7th century. The frame is rectangular in shape with a single loop, thick edges and a recessed bar. The pin is missing. The underside of the buckle is flat and plain while the upper face is thickly gilded with four leaf-shaped settings at the corners, two of which retain crushed red settings, probably garnets. Between the settings on one long edge and the two short edges is a trapezoidal area with a central plain band surrounded on all sides by possible punched decoration. A much shorter area…
Created on: Monday 19th May 2014
Last updated: Monday 13th April 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-E4F9F7
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A middle to late Anglo Saxon silver strap-end of Thomas's Class A1 (Trewhiddle style). The split attachment end is rectilinear, and has two rivet holes containing separate silver rivets. The left-hand rivet appears to have a silver blob extending to one side from it. The edge of the entire front is left as a plain, undecorated border, which is thicker at the attachment end where it is shaped around the base of the two rivet holes. The usual fan-shaped field is missing, so the central panel has a double incurve at the top and an incurved edge at the bottom, above the anima…
Created on: Wednesday 16th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 20th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Damerham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-2DAB03
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete early Anglo-Saxon gold circular domed mount, now missing its setting which was probably originally of garnet. It consists of a circular sheet back-plate onto which is fixed a strip collar, angled inwards to form the lower part of a shallow dome. The join between the two is covered by a border of beaded wire c. 1mm in diameter, now extremely worn. Through the c.5mm diameter central opening within the collar is a waffle imprint on a piece of gold foil over the backplate. The pattern consists of squares divided by ridges, sub-divided into further tiny square…
Created on: Friday 14th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 19th August 2014
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Record ID: HAMP-0B4001
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete silver Anglo-Saxon composite hooked tag of Read Class D, Type 1 (circular/sub-circular with two attachment knops). It is missing a central attachment, probably a separate decorative dome-headed rivet. The sub-circular plate has both interlace and Trewhiddle-style decoration reserved against an engraved background which retains traces of niello inlay. It is divided into four by a central reserved cross. Three of the arms have three transverse grooves at their midpoints; at the midpoint of the fourth arm (that directly above the hook) are two transverse gro…
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 7th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Andover', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-09D621
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy end-cap from a medieval knife handle. It takes the form of a single narrow trapezoidal curved plate measuring 28.25mm in length, tapering in width from 8.20mm to 4.40mm, 1.45mm in thickness and weighing 1.13g. It has a small rectangular perforation 10.65mm from the narrow end which measures 3.80mm in length. The guard is slightly concave on the handle side. Compare Cowgill et al. 1987, especially no. 116. 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2013
Last updated: Friday 2nd May 2014
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Record ID: HAMP-DF7EA4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A worn and corroded Early Medieval gilded copper-alloy fragment, probably from an early Anglo-Saxon florid cruciform brooch of 6th century date. The fragment is flat and sub-triangular and depicts a stylised human mask in relief facing forwards. The head is in Style I, with two small circular eyes above large rounded cheeks. A prominent triangular nose extends from the slightly curved eyebrow ridges, which are joined at the centre and each terminate in a small upward-curling spiral. The upper edge of the eyebrow ridge has a jagged break. To either side of the face is a further larg…
Created on: Monday 11th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd September 2015
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Record ID: SUR-8C91E4
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A late tenth- or eleventh-century cloisonné enamel brooch made from gilded copper alloy. The brooch has a raised centre with dark blue, light blue and red enamel. There are two T-shaped cells set opposite one another and filled with light blue glass, and two perhaps triangular cells filled with red glass. The field thus formed in the centre looks like a cross with offset arms, and is filled with dark blue glass. The cell walls are all made from copper-alloy strip. The enamel design is framed within two rings of chunky beaded wire which are also visible on the gilded reverse. The pin …
Created on: Monday 13th August 2012
Last updated: Thursday 30th April 2015
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Record ID: WILT-D53C76
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Early Early-Medieval (500-600) copper alloy gilt small square-headed brooch, consisting of the headplate and small portion of the bow only. It measures 13.11x15.35x5.24mm and weighs 1.9g. The headplate measures 15.35x8.34x2.03mm (without lug). At the centre of a sunken rectangular area are eight raised vertical ribs, the group being flanked with a rope-effect rib, decorated with transverse grooves. The gilding is mostly retained except on the vertical ribs. The bow above is 6.86mm wide and worn at the old break. It curves forwards slightly and survives to a length of…
Created on: Wednesday 11th July 2012
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Breamore', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-9BDF44
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Two copper-alloy double-looped buckle frames, both very similar. Each is square internally and with a solid triangular outer edge; the bars project slightly beyond the edge of the frame, and all external edges are bevelled. One retains a fragment of iron pin. 1. 40.53 x 20.37mm, 7.38g including pin. 2. 40.73 x 20.75mm, 6.41g.
Created on: Sunday 8th July 2012
Last updated: Thursday 1st May 2014
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Record ID: WILT-847B26
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of Early Early-Medieval (500-600) small square-headed brooch, consisting of the footplate (with worn catchplate to the reverse) and part of the bow. It measures 26.27x21.50x10.18mm and weighs 4.8g. All breaks are ancient. The bow is D-shaped in cross-section, being flat to the reverse, with a rib running along the centre of the curved face. The terminal, which is flat and now very worn, would have originally been trefoil. All arms are now worn stubs. At the centre of the terminal is decoration in the form of a central pellet around which are thin, worn ribs in the form of…
Created on: Tuesday 31st January 2012
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Vernhams Dean', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-162137
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A silver strap-end of Thomas's Class A. The strap-end is long, narrow and the sides curve very gently. The front half of the split end has been lost, and the two rivet holes on the lower half abraded through; both rivets have been lost. The front has a border down each long side, split into two by a longitudinal groove. Outside this the border is further decorated with small irregular transverse nicks making a slightly crude ladder pattern. Within is a recessed field, originally filled with niello, around a foliate design that is symmetrical down the centre length of the …
Created on: Wednesday 2nd November 2011
Last updated: Saturday 22nd February 2014
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Record ID: HAMP-C25EF3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A silver finger-ring with hoop rounded in cross-section, and thinned flat oval bezel, just 1.0 mm thick, bearing zoomorphic engraved decoration within a reserved border which is decorated on the long sides with fine punched dots. The beast is in Trewhiddle style, and has a curved body with rearward-facing head with long open jaws filling the space between head and back. The head also has a long rounded ear. The front leg is short and ends in two toes, one of which reaches upwards towards the beast's ear. The rear leg is more defined, starting at a chunky hip and ending in…
Created on: Wednesday 5th October 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 9th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ropley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-906E71
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A retangular double looped buckle frame with five knops and four hollows or rebates on each long side or outer edge. Compare NMS-BA9460 and NMS-84AD65, and Egan and Pritchard (1991) no. 443. These appear to date to the 14th century.
Created on: Sunday 22nd May 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 6th June 2018
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Record ID: SUR-216F26
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A lozenge-shaped copper alloy mount, slightly bent and with a thick iron backing. The mount is decorated with a triple-strand interlace and is mainly gilded although there is a band of silver which encloses the interlace. Helen Geake comments: The decoration on this object combines triple-strand interlace plus bichrome decoration, suggesting a date late in the sixth century (perhaps 580-600). The interlace is not very good - there seems to be an attempt at a foot below the left-hand side corner but no head, if it is an animal, and it is very assymmetrical. Iron on the re…
Created on: Tuesday 30th March 2010
Last updated: Friday 24th February 2012
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Record ID: HAMP-EFB258
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A worn, corroded and damaged early-medieval copper-alloy strap-end of Thomas's Class B, Type 1. The split attachment end is wedge-shaped (W.: 9.8mm) with a double perforation; both rivets have been lost, with one of the holes having been abraded through. The split extends for c. 13.85mm. The attachment end itself is slightly cusped, i.e. shaped to curve around the attachment holes and with a small point between. On the upper surface of the upper split is an incised field with curved ends that meet in a point towards the attachment end. Within the border is a broadly S-shaped motif,…
Created on: Tuesday 26th January 2010
Last updated: Friday 1st November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Goodworth Clatford CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-8D8BE7
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy medieval seal matrix with a hexagonally facetted conical handle rising to a collar of a ridge between two grooves. Above this is a rounded terminal, decorated with a groove on either side, and with a small circular perforation. The circular die is engraved with a four-leafed clover. The legend reads LEL AMI AVET (I am a loyal friend). This is a variation on a frequently appearing legend. 14th century.
Created on: Friday 16th October 2009
Last updated: Monday 19th October 2015
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Record ID: SUR-6015C7
Object type: STYLUS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A flat triangular object of uncertain purpose, possibly a pin head or a stylus eraser. The long sides are both incurving and the wider end is slightly outcurved. One face is decorated with complex angular interlace decoration across the wider end, above a spiral which may end in the centre in a worn animal head. Below this is a triangular block which may form the body of a Mercian-style animal. The apex of the triangle is filled with unclear elements which may include limbs. This is all set within a double-grooved border, outside which there is a frame filled with fine oblique ribbing…
Created on: Wednesday 15th April 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 6th March 2019
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