Record ID: LVPL-C8B1A3
Object type: PLUMB BOB
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete lead alloy plumbob dating to the Medieval period. The weight is oval in plan and cross-section with a central decorated panel on each face. The decorated panel on each face sits within an oval depression with the decoration on one face consisting of a zig-zag ridge running the length of the panel with three pellets between each turn of the ridge. The opposite face of the object is decorated with an scroll pattern. The top of the object is incomplete and is dished with a projection at each edge. These projections would have expanded to form an attachment loop when comp…
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2017
Last updated: Friday 12th May 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Guilden Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-BFBC1E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper alloy buckle frame, probably dating from the 6th century. The frame is rectangular, with a single loop, thick edges and a recessed narrowed bar. The pin is missing. The underside of the buckle is flat and plain but the upper face is decorated with a curved recess either side of the notch for the pin. The recess contains seven raised triangles on each side. The recess would probably have been inlaid with decoration, perhaps in a zig-zag around the raised triangles. Damage at one side of the frame suggests that the inlay may have b…
Created on: Tuesday 8th July 2014
Last updated: Monday 13th April 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Huxley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-C950D0
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Cast bronze strap-distributor dating to the Early-Medieval period. It consists of a ring 25.03mm in diameter, with a three-spoked construction and a central circular setting containing a domed green glass setting 6.48mm in diameter. Each of the spokes terminates in a moulded animal head with pronounced hollowed-out ears and a moulded snout. Attached to the ring are two zoomorphic clasps. Each clasp consists of a bar of metal bent in two around the ring, the lower half of which is flat while the upper half is moulded in the form of an animal head. The clasps have an oval mo…
Created on: Monday 19th October 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kingsley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL2260
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval pin, balloon-shaped head separated from the shank by a small, circumfercial moulding. Complete but shank is bent.
Created on: Wednesday 25th September 2002
Last updated: Friday 27th March 2015
Spatial data recorded.