Record ID: PUBLIC-D52688
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy small-long brooch of early Anglo-Saxon date (c. 450-550 AD). The head, bow and top of the foot survive; the terminal of the foot is missing and the iron spring and pin are lost. The head has a raised central panel with a wide flat undecorated border around. The upper corners are extended into 'horns' which curve outwards and taper to a point. On the reverse of the headplate is a pin lug; the details of this cannot be seen as it is covered with iron corrosion. The bow has a small rectangular-section area to top and bottom, and in between has a long facet on either side …
Created on: Wednesday 8th July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st August 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-EDEBF5
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Solid copper-alloy object in the shape of a horse's head, probably a terminal from a knife handle. It has a base 15mm long and sub-oval or sub-rectangular in cross-section. This is apparently complete, and has a groove around it just above the lower edge, perhaps to help fix it into a hole in a larger object. At the other end, it tapers into the narrower neck of the horse, which is more rounded in cross-section. Above this is a very stylised head, with a slightly open mouth. The nose is bevelled to either side in the centre, with the corners left unbevelled as nostrils and another …
Created on: Monday 15th June 2015
Last updated: Monday 13th July 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Maidstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-CC05D6
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kirklees
Workflow stage: Published
A complete medieval copper-alloy buckle with pin and folded sheet plate, c.1200-1400. The undecorated frame is single-looped and D-shaped, and is rounded in cross-section. The copper-alloy pin is circular in cross-section and is wrapped around the bar. The undecorated rectangular plate is made from a piece of copper-alloy sheet folded in half with a pin slot and frame recesses cut. The remains of a rivet hole can be seen at the opposite end to the buckle frame. One corner of the plate is now missing. 20.82mm in length, 3.44mm in thickness, 12.77mm in width, 1.64g in weight. Several…
Created on: Friday 8th May 2015
Last updated: Monday 1st June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-CB354B
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kirklees
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy single loop spur buckle dating to c.1250-1450. The oval frame is now largely missing (worn/corroded breaks) with small lobed knops either end of the strap bar which are also now quite worn. The remains of a separate copper-alloy rivet are evident below the strap bar and a small part of the pin remains attached, wrapped around the bar through a pin hole. The integral plate narrows from the frame to a waist-like centre, and then expands to an oval area where the remains of a second separate copper-alloy rivet are evident. The frame then extends to two fur…
Created on: Friday 8th May 2015
Last updated: Monday 1st June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-ED7865
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount, 49 mm long, 36mm in width, 6mm thick and weighing 31.7g. The object is intact and is a very good example of a Williams class B type 2, group 1 mount. It is pentagonal in shape and rectangular in cross-section. It is openwork and decorated with two rather angular animal heads, one positioned above the other in the centre. Each head has a double V-shaped or inverted chevron ridge forming brows above a triangular nose and raised globular eyes. The upper head sits in the apex of the triangle, just below a central fix…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'RUTLAND', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-D986C2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leeds
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval copper alloy strap end. It is formed of two matching plates but the closed end (probably originally a spacer plate with terminal) is missing. The attachment end has a single central copper alloy rivet and the end is W-shaped, i.e. convex in the centre with a projection at each corner. The patina is dark green. The strap end is 23.82mm in length, 16.55mm wide, 3.76mm thick, 5.25gm in weight. Compare PAS records SWYOR-7DB186 and HAMP-9646F4, and two examples in Egan and Pritchard 1991, 142; no. 660, with the shaped attachment end, and no. 662, with the closed end formed…
Created on: Monday 9th March 2015
Last updated: Thursday 12th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Leeds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-31962F
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy zoomorphic or anthropomorphic buckle dating to the period c. AD 1250 - 1400. The buckle has a long integral plate, rounded and with a wide circular perforation at the terminal, now worn and broken through at the end. The plate then tapers into a rectangular solid area with a central longitudinal groove which ends at the pin hole. At the point at which the plate narrows, it features a small knop or ridge on either side. The pin is present and functional, although apparently of a different alloy to the rest of the buckle. The frame of the buckle is D-shaped, with a …
Created on: Tuesday 17th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 29th August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stockton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-FEA81D
Object type: WEIGHT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Lead object, perhaps a 1oz weight. Thick, flat and circular, it is slightly trapezoidal in cross-section with one circular face being smaller than the other. The larger face (probably the reverse) is undecorated, but the smaller face appears to have an off-centre cross scratched or engraved into the surface. There also appear to be some pellets, but these look more like casting flaws than deliberate decoration. Maximum diameter 24mm, thickness 6mm. It weighs 26.1g (0.92oz). Weights are difficult to date, but if this is a 1oz weight it probably dates to the late medieval or post-…
Created on: Friday 9th January 2015
Last updated: Friday 17th April 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-FE85FA
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy rotary key with partly incomplete bow, dating to the late 13th to 15th century. The remaining fragment of bow appears to be rectilinear, internally stepped down to a central notch at the start of the stem. The stem begins with a double moulding, and is then oval in cross-section. It is hollow at the tip. The bit consists of two vertical wards, both with two channels. The front ward has two shallow clefts in the front edge, which is in line with the end of the stem. These large keys are of LMMC Type VI, which Ward Perkins dates to the 14th and 15th centuries, and which …
Created on: Friday 9th January 2015
Last updated: Monday 17th June 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-FE6870
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy leg from a post-medieval cooking vessel. The leg is long and slender, c. 4-5cm in surviving length. It is trefoil in cross-section, with a broad rib running down the front.The leg is separated from the foot by a deep transverse ridge; the foot is slightly flared but otherwise similar in shape to the leg. There is a small amount of sooting on the reverse. The break at the top of the leg is rough but patinated. Similar legs are known from cooking vessels of the16th to 18th centuries (e.g. Butler and Green 2003, nos. 4, 13 and 16). A posnet in the British Museum w…
Created on: Friday 9th January 2015
Last updated: Thursday 16th April 2015
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Record ID: PUBLIC-FE29BB
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper-alloy book clasp of hinged type (Howsam type A.1.1). The plate is made from a piece of undecorated sheet bent in half, with large recesses cut at the corners of the fold. It has an incurved attachment end with two separate copper-alloy rivets retaining a concreted substance sandwiched between the two halves of the plate. The hinged end is of a far blacker alloy, and appears to have been cast. It has a rounded central element with a large circular perforation running from front to back. The central element is plano-convex in cross-section. From one side are two proje…
Created on: Friday 9th January 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 18th December 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-FA254B
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Middle Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy pin head and fragment of shaft, dating to the 8th or 9th century. The object comprises a globular head with a raised collar at the base. The head was possibly once facetted but is now battered out of shape and very corroded. The shaft of the pin is circular in section and only a very small stub remains.
Created on: Friday 9th January 2015
Last updated: Monday 29th June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Somercotes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-1853B5
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A medieval, sheet copper-alloy harness pendant suspension mount. The mount is sub-semi-circular in plan with a central, circular perforation for a rivet. Radiating from this perforation, on the front, are incised lines creating a shell-like effect. The front of the mount is convex and the reverse concave. The straight top edge of the mount has been broken and is incomplete. The loop for attaching the pendant is formed from a long rectangular extension from the bottom edge of the mount, with a central, rectangular cut-out. This is folded backwards to form a loop with two arms and a …
Created on: Sunday 23rd November 2014
Last updated: Monday 26th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Skidbrooke', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-CEED5D
Object type: SOCKETED AXEHEAD
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A Late Bronze Age/Earliest Iron Age complete cast copper alloy socketed axehead of South-Eastern (LBA) or Sompting (EIA) type, of the Ewart Park/Llyn Fawr metalworking tradition. The axehead is wedge-shaped with a square socket at the haft end. Internally the socket tapers and narrows from the mouth to the cutting edge. Externally the axehead expands gently along the body before a very slightly wider flare to the curved but now damaged cutting edge. There is a wide circumferential raised mouth moulding at the socket, with a second much narrower moulding below. To one side of the mouth…
Created on: Wednesday 19th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 18th July 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-634934
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A post-medieval copper-alloy double-looped buckle frame. Both loops are identical; slightly trapezoidal internally, flaring from the bar, with solid triangular pointed outer edges. The frame has a D-shaped cross-section with a flat reverse. The front is stamped with circles, smaller on the top and bottom edges and a little larger on the triangular points. A rounded knop is present at either end of the central bar. The pin is missing, but there is iron corrosion on the bar and one outer edge suggesting that it was originally of iron. The buckle is a mid green colour and measures 44.…
Created on: Sunday 2nd November 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tenterden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-CB60F8
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
A strap-end fragment consisting of part of the attachment end and part of a decorated panel. The attachment end is split to take the strap, but no rivet holes survive. There is a hint of a single ring-and-dot motif. The decorated panel has ornament of engraved lines; there is a single-line border, and at the top a U-shaped curve in the centre. Below this are two further curved lines which may represent eyebrows, with widely set eyes each consisting of a small curved line below the eyebrows at the edge of the panel. If this fragment of decoration does represent a mask or face, this st…
Created on: Sunday 26th October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 16th December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-B96E23
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy buckle, of Late Medieval to Early Post Medieval dating. The buckle consists of a sub-circular annular frame with a complete integral bar. The pin is made of iron. The frame is rectangular in cross-section and the central bar has a circular cross-section. The external edges of the frame have been bevelled. The back of the buckle frame is undecorated. The buckle is a mid to dark green colour with an even patina. Abrasion, caused by movement whilst within the plough soil, has resulted in the loss of most of the original surface detail. The buckle has a diameter o…
Created on: Saturday 25th October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stone cum ebony', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-2E9A21
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon wide equal-arm brooch. The fragment is almost half of the brooch (most of one 'arm' and about half of the bow) but as there is no trace of either pin lug or catchplate on the undecorated reverse, it is impossible to tell whether this is the head or the foot. The surviving head or foot has a wide edge decorated with two lines of punched indentations giving a beaded effect. The corners are both missing; one appears to have broken at a possible drilled hole, perhaps an ancient repair. The double line of punched indentations is also fou…
Created on: Sunday 19th October 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 14th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lewes', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-D110DF
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy pin head of middle Anglo-Saxon date (8th or 9th century). Almost all of the circular-section pin shaft is missing. The head is a thick flat cuboid with the corners cut off, making a pentagon shape with a straight flat top and angled sides. Both of the largest faces have ring-and-dot decoration, one with four motifs forming a cross shape and the other with three, two above and one below. Each side has five ring-and-dots, arranged two above, one at the angle and two below. There is no real collar below the head, but the surviving stub of shaft appears to step in from a thic…
Created on: Tuesday 14th October 2014
Last updated: Monday 11th May 2015
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A31759
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early-Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) cast copper-alloy stirrup terminal dating to the 11th century. The convex front is moulded in the form of a stylised animal's head with prominent, tear-shaped eyes, moulded ears, a bulbous forehead and a short snout ending in flaring nostrils. Above the ears, the object is broken with the upper part missing. The back of the object is concave, producing a C-shaped cross-section, and contains pale white/grey concretions that may be the remains of solder to enable attachment of the terminal to the iron stirrup.
Created on: Sunday 12th October 2014
Last updated: Saturday 14th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Skidbrooke', grid reference and parish protected.