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Record ID: WAW-3168EE
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (8thto 9thcentury) pyramidal mount: The mount is a pyramid with a truncated top and a square base. The outer surfaces are decorated, whereas the underside is hollow and undecorated. The mount has been cast from a leaded bronze.The Conservation Dept. at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery kindly XRF'd the mount proving it to be a leaded bronze:14%Sn and 2%Pb.
The truncated top has a raised flat topped ridge around the edge and has four rivets, one in each corner each of which has been hammered to form a flattened rivet head. In the centre of the top, there is a sub-…
Created on: Friday 13th March 2015
Last updated: Thursday 11th June 2015
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This findspot is known as 'Hampton Lucy area', 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
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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
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This findspot is known as 'Leeds', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DOR-58B830
Object type: HANGING BOWL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy hanging bowl mount. Part of the plate of the mount only remains. At the top is the sub of the suspension loop. The remaining upper part of the plate is crescent shaped. The front face is covered with deeply incised and moulded symmetrical decoration comprising (from the top) an incised rectangle with two ring and dot stamps set vertically inside, flanking this are two trapezoidal ridges (set on their sides), each with a ring and dot stamp inside. On the more complete side, there is then a series of raised chevrons forming a tapering herringbone pattern followin…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 21st April 2015
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This findspot is known as 'Dorset', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-58AC6E
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A tinned copper-alloy early-medieval mount in the form of a fish, with two flattened projections to the reverse. The mount widens and thickens from the tip of the head of the fish (1.95mm wide and 0.75mm thick) to 7.85mm wide and 7.15mm thick at the eyes before tapering to its narrowest point (3.20mm wide and 2.4mm thick) at the tail.
In cross-section the body of the fish is triangular. The tail is rectangular in cross-section and broadly triangular in shape; it widens to 17.15mm across. The eyes of the fish are each formed from a single ring-and-dot motif, the centre of which cont…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2015
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This findspot is known as 'Marlborough', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-588E66
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy brooch from the early Anglo-Saxon period. The head is cross-shaped, with no decoration on the cross. Three of the cross arms end in small half-round knobs with deep undecorated bases, deep waists and small rounded domed ends. The fourth cross arm is a little wider, and runs down to the start of the bow. This has a short rectangular-section panel at the top but quickly steps down to a sub-triangular cross-section, resulting in small triangular facets near the top of the bow. The front of the bow has a slightly flattened apex.
The brooch is broken at …
Created on: Tuesday 3rd March 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 11th December 2018
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Record ID: SOM-6175C6
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval copper alloy mount, probably from harness, with 7th cnetury style interlace decoration on the front, now in two pieces. The flat mount has a two straight ends, one slightly wider (18.6mm) than the other (15.1mm) and shaped sides. From the wider end the edges flare outwards slightly (to 19.6mm) before angling inwards in a straight line for three quarters of the length of the mount to a narowest point of 11.7mm wide. From this point the edges step outwards to 14.5mm wide then angle out to the straight end. The mount is mostly 2.0mm thick apart from two raised hemi-spheric…
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2015
Last updated: Friday 20th February 2015
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This findspot is known as 'West Knoyle CP', 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
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This findspot is known as 'Stockton', 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: NLM-334DCB
Object type: SPUR
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy spur rowel fragment. Twelve round-ended radial spikes remain of an original complement of about 36. Helen Geake kindly corrects an initial identification as a pastry jigger, citing as parallels PUBLIC-CA2E27, BERK-791E33, LIN-72B5A6. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1700..
Diameter (inferred): 80mm, Length (as found): 51.2mm, Thickness: 3.2mm, Weight: 12.56gms.
Created on: Thursday 5th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 18th November 2020
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This findspot is known as 'Pilham', 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
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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
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This findspot is known as 'South Somercotes', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WILT-970E39
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Bath and North East Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy zoomorphic or anthropomorphic buckle dating to the period c. AD 1200 - 1450. The buckle has an integral plate which forms an openwork keyhole-shaped frame, wide and rounded at the terminal and then tapering into a rectangular area ending at the pin slot. At the point at which the plate narrows it feature a small knop on either side. The copper-alloy pin survives.
The buckle's frame is D-shaped, with a solid triangular outer edge decorated with a zoomorphic or anthropomorphic design of a head. Two pointed ears are incised with longitudinal grooves. Between the ears th…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 24th February 2015
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This findspot is known as 'Priston', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BM-4862D6
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy florid cruciform brooch dating to the sixth century AD. The fragment measures 50mm in length, and a maximum of 28mm wide and 3mm thick.
Helen Geake comments: 'There is a parallel from Driffield in Martin 2015, pl. 29.1. It belongs to type 4.3.2 which appears to be a north eastern type. but as far as I can see the fragment of foot seems a bit bigger than the other fragment. A second fragment from Piercebridge may represent part of the same brooch (BM-484402) although it appears to originate from a slightly smaller example.'
Created on: Friday 19th December 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th November 2018
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Record ID: BM-484402
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Darlington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy florid cruciform brooch dating to the sixth century AD. The fragment comprises the head, the bow and a portion of the foot. The brooch measures 81mm in length. The head is 39mm in length, 52mm in width and 7mm thick. The bow is 20mm at its widest and 4mm thick. The foot is a maximum of 27mm long, 31mm wide and 6mm thick.
Helen Geake comments: 'Despite the head being rectilinear and not at all 'cruciform', the decoration shows that it's developed out of 3 knobs all with two little circles - possibly intended as a human mask. There's a similar example f…
Created on: Friday 19th December 2014
Last updated: Monday 5th November 2018
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Record ID: WMID-029DED
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Telford and Wrekin
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy wrist- or sleeve-clasp of Early Anglo-Saxon date (AD 470 - AD 570).
The clasp consists of three D-shaped lugs on the rear, each with a circular sewing perforation. The lugs at either end of the object are incomplete but the central one is complete. The main body of the clasp is made up of square, flat bosses, the central of which is decorated with two concentric square grooves. In both gaps between the bosses two pairs of narrow grooves flank a broader U-shaped groove. The eye or catch (a rectangular projecting perforated lug on the front of the clasp) is…
Created on: Tuesday 16th December 2014
Last updated: Monday 13th April 2015
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-C6FDED
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy double loop oval buckle with copper alloy attachment plate. The rectangular buckle plate is folded back on itself around the central bar of the buckle. The centre of the plate where it wraps around the bar has a rectangular slot cut into it to accommodate the pin which is now missing. The plate also has a central circular hole to affix the two halves of the plate and the strap. Similar examples are shown in Whitehead (2003, 53; nos.298/299) and dated there to c. 1350-1650 AD. Dimensions; length 24.19mm, width 19.37mm, weight 7.15g.
Created on: Monday 1st December 2014
Last updated: Sunday 9th August 2015
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