Record ID: NLM-239E88
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy brooch. Cast cruciform brooch, comprising head, mid bow, lower bow and foot and retaining a single U-shaped lug behind the middle of the head and a folded catch plate between lappets at the top of the lower bow. Bent across the head by plough or spade strike. A rectangular plate has slightly indented or concave upper and lower edges, a central trapezoid panel, also plain, and is surmounted by an integrally cast half-round collared top knob which is lightly hollowed behind. An incised horizontal groove passes across the base of the central panel on the head, with oppo…
Created on: Monday 16th November 2020
Last updated: Monday 27th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thoresway', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-E1052A
Object type: RIVET
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval copper-allot stud/rivet, dating to c.AD 500 - 600. The stud is circular in plan and rectangular in section. The front of the stud has a chip carved design in the centre. In the centre of the stud is an annulet, radiating around the stud are four sets of three curved lines which create a lozenge style pattern. The outer boarder of the stud is undecoarated. The rear of the stud is also undecorated, projecting from the centre is a cylindrical shaft which terminated in a flattened circular head. The central design has retained traced of gilding. Diameter: 18 mm Th…
Created on: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ratcliffe on Soar', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-41265C
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper alloy and enamel buckle, dating to c AD 650 - 750. It consists of the loop of what was probably a three-part buckle. Tongue and plate (which would have been integral to one another) and what was probably a sub-triangular body, are missing. The loop is sub-pelta shape with the outer edge possibly taking the form of two opposed stylised zoomorphic heads, raised up, their snake-like tails continuing around the loop and almost meeting at the attachment end. Below the raised heads is a half-round pin notch. The beasts are indicated by sub-rectangular and…
Created on: Monday 11th October 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 18th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Marlborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-7D0E57
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy mount of Early-Medieval date. The mount is triquetra in form with a flat, rectangular profile. The upper surface is decorated with an intricate carved interlace design which retains gilding. The exact nature of the decoration is difficult to determine due to wear though an intertwining rope work-style border appears to be present around each loop and into the centre panel. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The metal has a mid-greenish patina and is worn. The object is 21.8mm long, 20mm wide, 1.8mm thick and weighs 2.5g. Dr Kevin Leahy, National Fin…
Created on: Thursday 16th July 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 11th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BH-12CD02
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy late Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) harness pendant. The pendant is sub-axe-shaped with a rounded lower edge, one surviving flared edge and a narrowed upper section with inwardly tapering edges that extends to a rounded upper edge. There are several areas of damage. This includes the upper section of the plate which is bent over backwards, and a missing flared edge opposite the surviving one that has left a large unevenly broken scar. The remaining edges are all very uneven with wear and damage, some with notches out of them. An integrally cast recta…
Created on: Wednesday 28th July 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 5th April 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-3F0CAE
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Middle Iron Age copper alloy brooch, dating to c. 250-100 BC. Adams, 2013, Type 2Ba3. The pin is missing. The brooch has three sub-oval cone-shaped hollow bosses in a line, creating a scalloped edge on each side. Each boss has a setting in the apex for coral or enamel, now missing. At each end of the brooch is a transverse collar and an elongated knop similar to an acorn shape which extends from the base of the cone. The cones thus are raised up from the ends. Below one knop is a sub-triangular pierced double lug which would have held a hinged pin, and below the other, …
Created on: Sunday 30th May 2021
Last updated: Thursday 10th March 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-E2ACE6
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy possible pin of Early Medieval date. The object is anthropomorphic, being moulded in the form of a human male head, and inverted piriform in plan. The pointed end at the chin of the face is a patinated break. The object has a flat back and a moulded, three-dimensional front. It appears to be solid. The moulded head is smaller than the integral flat back of the object, so there is a flat narrow projecting rim round the edge of the object. The edge of this is chipped in places. Kevin Leahy interprets this (from images) as un untrimmed casting flash, and suggests that…
Created on: Friday 13th February 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 25th January 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-7817FB
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy early medieval (Anglo Saxon) plate-headed pin, c. late 9th century AD. The pin comprises a flat, sub-circular head decorated on the front with ring-and-dot motif at the four cardinal points and one in the centre. There are four circular perforations, one in each corner. It is undecorated on the back. There is no collar around the shank, which tapers gradually to a point and show very slight evidence of being hipped. The end of the shank is bent slightly to the left. Length: 54.25mm, width of head: 17.87mm, thickness of shank (middle): 1.82mm, weight:…
Created on: Monday 13th December 2021
Last updated: Friday 7th January 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-E1D14A
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Buckle of Early-Medieval date (AD 900-1050). The object is a zoomorphic single-loop buckle frame. The pin is missing, bar and one arm of the frame ore missing due to old abraded breaks. The frame is D-shaped with Borre-style animal heads at the ends of the bar and the midpoint of the outer edge. The frame is D-shaped in cross-section and is decorated with incised, repeating rectangles. The two retained animal head knops all have tapering, snub-nosed muzzles with large, rounded ears at the back, the ears have a central recess. The eyes of each are circ…
Created on: Monday 6th December 2021
Last updated: Friday 10th December 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM80
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy pin from a brooch, round shank with a ring fitting at one end, between the ring and shank is a well defined collar. Probably the pin from a Medieval ring brooch
Created on: Tuesday 26th May 1998
Last updated: Thursday 9th December 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST LINDSEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-160081
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An complete cast copper alloy Medieval rotary key. The hollow tubular stem terminates with a collar of three mouldings and a circular bow. On either side of the bow are a number of spurs that could represent animal heads. The symmetrical rectangular bit has two clefts on each side and a cleft on the bottom. The length of the bit is 12.2mm, the width is 18.3mm and the thickness is 5.5mm. The external length of the bow is 23.5mm and the width is 17.9mm. The complete length of the key is 68.5mm, the diameter of the stem is 7.3mm and the weight is 27.39g.
Created on: Friday 7th September 2007
Last updated: Friday 19th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ranby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-039468
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy mount fragment. Small thin fragment, possibly from a mount of cross-shaped form with concave sides to its arms, retaining interlace strap-work with relict gilding on one side, with plain borders, one lightly convex and the other concave. Lightly bent, broken along one edge. Kevin Leahy kindly comments as follows: 'I think that this piece represents a fragment decorated in what the Staffordshire Hoard report called the 'Early Insular Style' which was dated to c. 630-660. The matting-link interlace formed from three strands is characteristic of what was, in the Staffs. Hoar…
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2020
Last updated: Friday 22nd October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Roxby cum Risby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CAM-49F9C9
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy artefact of Early-Medieval date but uncertain function. This is most probably an incomplete mount, possibly related to stirrups or some other harness fitting. It weighs 8.24g and has a maximum width of 24.6mm. The length is currently 38.8mm, however a break is present at both ends (very worn at the wider end of the artefact and moderately worn at the tapering end). In its incomplete state the object has a pear or tear-drop shape. The reverse surface is undecorated and flat, however a concave depression is present on the reverse behind an area of moulding on …
Created on: Friday 20th March 2020
Last updated: Saturday 25th September 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-F1D495
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval to modern cast copper alloy finger ring, possibly incorporating an earlier medieval setting. The stones or glass from the cartouche setting are absent now, but originally there would have been three small ones. The cartouche has been attached to the ring loop & is made from a copper alloy with a different quantity of tin in it. Length 23mm, width 18mm. Dates between c1650 and c1900 AD.
Created on: Monday 17th December 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clitheroe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-AEBEF7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Date: Circa AD 1500-1600 Description: An incomplete copper alloy and dress accessory of uncertain type. The object is circular in plan and sub-rectangular in cross-section. The face of the object is decorated with two inward facing scrolls in relief in each quarter, with a raised oval below where each scroll meets. There is a raised border around the perimeter. There very edge of the object is chipped around the circumference. There are five silver studs set at the centre and opposing quarters to the scrolls. The face of the object retains much gilding. The reverse of the object …
Created on: Thursday 30th April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 8th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Inkberrow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-6E662D
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
A near complete copper-alloy and enamelled Early-Medieval buckle, dating from circa AD 700-800. The object is broadly an inverted triangle in plan with an expanded zoomorphic projection at the tip. The zoomorphic projection has oval shaped moulded eyes and a triangular snout or nose. The main body of the buckle then expands to the opposing upper edge which features two broadly rectangular projections at the outer corners. A third projection is located at the centre and is triangular in form and extends down on to the body of the buckle. The front face of the object is enam…
Created on: Wednesday 15th April 2020
Last updated: Thursday 15th July 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-6440E5
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval copper alloy stirrup fragment, 55mm long, 53mm wide and 12mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a green patina and weighs 34.97 grams. The object is trapezoidal in form and has a rectangular section. It consists of a sub-rectangular plate with rectangular sides, 12mm wide, which extend down the side to form two long rectangular sectioned 'straps' which angle outwards (these would have originally joined to a foot rest. Behind the rectangular plate, and obscured by it, is a further thin rectangular band which joins the whole object together and would have held the leat…
Created on: Monday 18th June 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 7th July 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-1F98A7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible part of one of the 15th century copper alloy 'lyre' shaped strap ends or buckles. These are usually socketed to hold the end of the strap. The length is 27mm, the width is 24mm and the thickness is 5mm. It is decorated with a black-letter inscription, probably m (for Mary).
Created on: Saturday 1st September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 29th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Bradford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-876680
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1200-1400) strap end of copper alloy composition (as evidenced by substantial greening), with remaining elements of silvering. The object is narrow and thin, tapering from 10mm at the widest surviving part to 7mm at the narrowest. There are two visible plates connected by a pin, though it is clear from the break point at the narrowest end that there were originally two pins and it is at this weak point it has snapped. some compressed dried soil obscures a view of the inside. The upper plate is decorated with a clear border, the area inside of which has remnants of a c…
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2018
Last updated: Monday 28th June 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: LANCUM-8C6C34
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Bracelet fragment, probably dating from the Iron Age (800-300BC). A similar example was found in what is assumed to be a Late Bronze Age context at Castle Hill, Scarborough, and they have Hallstatt origins. The length is 95mm, the width is 60mm, the thickness 16mm and the weight 117.85g.
Created on: Monday 29th June 2009
Last updated: Friday 25th June 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tunstall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-3DB7E7
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An elaborate quatrefoil shaped cast copper alloy harness pendant, with inlaid enamelling. Ashley believes that these elaborate harness pendants were a later development of the earlier pendants. This example displays 'arms which are allusive for England and France' (Ashley, 2002, p23). He goes on to state that such pendants are likely to have been made after 1340 'when the fleur-de-lis of France were quartered with the lions of England'. Although an earlier date cannot be ruled out, due to earlier known alliances between England and France. The pendant has four lobes, each with a small…
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 11th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sancton area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-E67A54
Object type: BUTTON AND LOOP FASTENER
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy button and loop fastener of Roman date. The fastener has a trapezoidal loop cast integrally to a hemispherical hollow boss. The loop and boss are on seperate plains and are joined by an integrally cast shank. Button and loop fasteners of this type date to the 2nd century AD. The metal has a mid brownish-green patina and is very worn. The button and loop fastener is 38.7mm long, 16.6mm wide and weighs 10.2g.
Created on: Saturday 13th November 2010
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Luttons', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-3C5533
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Anglo-Saxon or Anglian strap end (Thomas classification Class A, Type 1). The strap end has been made from one tapering oval plate of copper alloy with a flattened end at the attachment end of the fitting. Two rivet holes would have been located at this end of the strap end, but the attachment end has been badly damaged. The other terminal of the strap end has a much stylised zoomorphic head. The head projects away from the main body of the strap end as a tapering and facetted knop. The front plate of the strap end has been decorated with a design in high relief, the object is worn…
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2008
Last updated: Friday 23rd April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sancton area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-3D0B36
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Anglo-Saxon strap end, Thomas class B, type 1. The strap end is made of one piece of cast copper-alloy. This strap end dates to the 8th - 11th century. The strap end has a fan-shaped attachment end, which has three rivet holes arranged in a triangle with a decorative ring and dot in the centre. Below the attachment end the strap end then gets much thinner, with a rectangular section and terminates with what should be a zoomorphic head. The head is highly stylised. The reverse of the strap end is flat and undecorated. The metal is mid reddish-brown in colour.
Created on: Monday 2nd June 2008
Last updated: Friday 23rd April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fimber area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-79A9CE
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Fragment of a cast gilded copper alloy mount, set with silver rivets. The mount is roughly tri-lobed in form, comprising two large rounded lobes with a small, pierced lobe between them and a squared projection, probably broken, in the centre. There is a notch near one corner where the mount has been damaged. The squared central section is decorated with a circular panel containing a running spiral or plant motif inside a plain, broad border. In the centre is a silver dome-headed rivet. The two large lobes are decorated with different designs incorporating spirals and…
Created on: Monday 18th December 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 16th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-53E540
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy with gilding mount fragment. Cast flat backed plate in the form of the head of a bird with curving bill, probably one of a symetrically addorsed pair, as adduced by ragged broken edges behind the body. An eye is defined naturalistically in relief, as is a nostril at the top of the beak, but the neck and upper body afford fields for curvilinear interlaced ornament, each strand of which comprises paired ridges highlighted by deeply incised (or appearing thus) gutters between them. Dr Kevin Leahy kindly identifies this piece as of Salin Style 2, and as such an indication of …
Created on: Friday 28th March 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Lincolnshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-8D0A92
Object type: METAL WORKING DEBRIS
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. Cast fragment with a flat back. The reddish tint below an abraded surface patina is a feature of many objects of Anglo-Scandinavian date. Dr Kevin Leahy kindly comments that, rather than being a distressed artefact fragment, this may be a fragment of casting spillage.Suggested date: Unknown, 43-1800. Length: 18.8mm, Width: 13.4mm, Thickness: 2.2mm, Weight: 1.58gms.
Created on: Wednesday 29th January 2014
Last updated: Thursday 18th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-372891
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and iron early-medieval bridle fitting: a cheekpiece. Curving plate with a rectangular loop at the top and a possibly openwork arrangement of ten apertures, mostly sub-circular. Extensive ferrous corrosion suggests this was attached to an iron object. Degraded moulded decoration comprises possibly zoomorphic terminals at the ends of the plate, apparently with long tongues projecting from the gaping jaws of beasts; vertical groups of ribs, and a possibly devolved beast head or mask ornament below the loop. David Williams here kindly identifies a projecting animal head (a l…
Created on: Wednesday 13th November 2013
Last updated: Monday 15th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-1F5CE5
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy brooch with enamel and gilding. Circular, with an enamel design resembling a seven pointed star - or a six pointed star with a thick stalk - on its raised pedestal, which is of thickness 2.9mm, and detached from a separate back plate of thickness 1.2mm, which retains gilding, and which may have had a series of projecting lugs. Though the enamel was confined in cells, there is little visible of their walls. A central square cell contains brick red enamel. The star motif is of light blue enamel, and the field between the points of the star is dark blue. The rim of the back …
Created on: Tuesday 12th November 2013
Last updated: Friday 12th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-578FC3
Object type: BALANCE
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and iron balance fragment. Central beam and one hinged arm from a tiny balance. The arm has a bulbous end, perhaps to permit tied attachment of a pan. A separate pin of diameter 1.5mm and length 3.8mm joins arm and beam. Ferrous corrosion at the centre of the beam suggests provision for the suspension of the set of scales. Dr Kevin Leahy kindly suggests this may be of Roman date, though no other material of that date was reported with it. Suggested date: Possibly Roman, 43-410. Length: 27.9mm, Width: 6.7mm, Thickness: 4.9mm, Weight: 2.12gms.
Created on: Wednesday 9th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-1B6554
Object type: BROOCH PIN
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy possible brooch pin, as identified by Dr Kevin Leahy. Cast square section pin with flat discoid terminal with a semi-circular loop; the end of the shank is lost. Suggested date: probably Medieval, 1200-1350. Length: 33.9mm, Diameter (head): 10.6mm, Thickness (shank): 2.7mm, Weight: 3.52gms.
Created on: Thursday 12th September 2013
Last updated: Monday 8th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-F24D77
Object type: PIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy pin. Cast slightly tapering pin of round section with a flat openwork head with engrailed edges and a balanced curvilinear composition, possibly abstracted from the popular motif of a hand grasping a fruit or pearl. On one side - the better preserved - a collar is provided at the base of the head by a horizontal series of tiny and closely spaced punched dots of diameter c.0.5mm; similar dots also form a border motif for the open parts of the head, probably on both sides. The shank is bent through 90 degrees at its mid point, a feature of hair pins sometimes thought to rel…
Created on: Tuesday 10th September 2013
Last updated: Friday 5th February 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: FAKL-9BFD33
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval buckle and plate, c. 1270-1350, oval frame with and off-set bar, its outer edge in the form of a flat, angled plate with a central notch for the pin, which is now missing. The sides of the frame have a diamond shaped section. The plate is made from 1.5mm thick sheet metal, folded around the bar with a central notch for the pin. The plate is 35.6mm long and 19.9mm wide, its lower part being narrower and cut away, in its centre is a single large rivet, invisible on the upper part of the plate. Clamped between the two leaves of the plate is a double layer of a woven textile, res…
Created on: Monday 15th May 2017
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: FAKL-9C4A84
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval copper alloy, asymmetric, buckle frame, dating from AD1550-1700. The frame is sub-rectangular, with one square loop and the other semi-circular, separated by an integral bar. The underside of the frame is flat and the inner and outer edges of the upper side are bevelled On the bar are the remains of what appears to have been an iron pin, now missing. Similar buckles are shown by Whitehead, 2003, 90-91, where a date of c. 1550-1700 a date that seems to fit with other evidence. Length 33.6mm, Width 25.0mm, Thickness 2.3mm, Masss 4.85g.
Created on: Monday 15th May 2017
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: FAKL-9CD6AA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Roman cast copper alloy Colchester derivative, rear spring hook brooch of Mackreth, 2011, Chapter 2, Part 2 Group 1.b., 60-63, Plate 38 of first century AD. Bow D sectioned and decorated with a longitudinal groove containing a stamped, chain like line. The catch plate is missing as is one wing of the head bar and the pin and spring mechanism. The underside of the head bar is hollow to hold the pin spring. Length 45.5mm, Width 19.4mm, Height 12.8mm, Mass 7.05g.
Created on: Monday 15th May 2017
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: FAKL-9D414E
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval strap end, c. 1200-1400, made from sheet copper alloy with two leaves separated by a spacer. Rectangular, with a double indentation at its upper edge and a curved lower edge with a central projection. Undecorated. Through its upper part is a single rivet. Similar strap ends have been found in London and dated to c. 1200-1400 (Egan and Pritchard, 1991, Fig. 96) Length 26.0mm, Width 13.8mm, Thickness 2.4mm, Mass 3.40g.
Created on: Monday 15th May 2017
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: FAKL-9D721A
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval copper alloy button, c. 1550-1700, cast in one piece with an integral loop, flat, oblate head with a small central projection. See Read, 2005, 51-54. Length 15.6mm, Diameter 10.5mm, Mass 2.88g.
Created on: Monday 15th May 2017
Last updated: Friday 29th January 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-7CAD37
Object type: BUTTON
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Post Medieval button. The three-part button has a plano convex sheet metal lower disc to which the missing shank was once attached. The upper part of the button is pressed sheet metal, openwork and decorated with four panels of lead and fruit motifs. In the centre of the upper part is a six petal flower. Around the lower part of the openwork decoration is a rung of open loops. The openwork cover and basal disc are over a core, the nature of which cannot be determined. The diameter is 17.3mm, the length is 18.0mm and the weight is 6.80g.
Created on: Friday 31st August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-7CD7C3
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Medieval key. The hollow shank is circular in section and is truncated at the shoulders. The bow is missing. The complete sub-rectangular bit is S-shaped when viewed from the end. The surviving length is 78.3mm, the width is 27.6mm, and the thickness is 9.3mm. The diameter of the shank is 9.3mm and the weight is 42.01g.
Created on: Friday 31st August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-7CEF22
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Early Medieval Anglo Saxon pin. The faceted rhomboid head has ring and dot on each of the four faces. There is a small collar between the head and the shaft. The circular section shaft is broken and has a small bend just above the break. The head has a length of 10.8mm, a width of 8.7mm and a thickness of 6.0mm. The surviving length of the pin is 29.5mm, the diameter of the shaft is 1.9mm and the weight is 3.22g.
Created on: Friday 31st August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM-BBCEE4
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval copper alloy Northumbrian Styca of Aethelred II, c. 840-844.
Created on: Monday 3rd September 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 27th January 2021
No spatial data available.

Record ID: YORYM-2A8D97
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy seal matrix of medieval date. The seal is a pointed oval or vessica shape with a perforated lug set on a central rib on the reverse. The face of the seal matrix is badly worn and infilled with earth rendering it illegible. Seals of this shape became popular in the 13th century therfore this seal most probably dates from this period. The metal has a mid greenish-brown patina and is worn. The seal matrix is 23.2mm long, 16.9mm wide and weighs 4.9g. Since the initial identification and recording of this object at the Bridlington Quay Metal Dete…
Created on: Tuesday 16th November 2010
Last updated: Monday 25th January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Luttons', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-07B756
Object type: SCABBARD
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Half of a cast copper alloy chape from a dagger sheath or belt. The raised pattern is in three parts. The upper part is a straight horizontal bordered cable, the middle is an inerted stylised club & the lower part is a horizontal crescent or cup with circular finials.Possibly dating between c1300 and c1600 AD, but it may be a moddern reproduction as it looks more brassy than bronze normally does. Measures 43 x 27mm. Weight is 8.64g
Created on: Thursday 6th December 2012
Last updated: Thursday 21st January 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'York', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-42A151
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy object of uncertain function, possibly a brooch dating to the Medieval period (c. AD 1000-1200). The object is disc-shaped with a raised hemispherical central boss. The upper surface is decorated with a moulded circular and geometric pattern. The four concentric ring and dot motifs, one roughly in each quarter of the plate, consist of a single grooved circle, another circle within it and a circular dot at the centre. The zones between the two circular grooves are flat and plan. Around the base of the central boss is a border consisting of small and slig…
Created on: Monday 12th October 2020
Last updated: Thursday 10th December 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LVPL-86A992
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy possible strap fitting dating to the Early Medieval period. The body of the object is sub-triangular in shape and hollow. Each face is decorated with a long triangular perforation measuring 14mm in length and 7mm in width at the base. On the front and rear faces of the object are three more perforations. Either side of the top of the large triangle is a small lentoid perforation while above the top point of the triangular perforation is a small inverted triangular perforation measuring 6mm in length. The base of the object is rectangular in plan with a central circ…
Created on: Wednesday 11th June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 9th December 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kelsall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-A1D863
Object type: PISTOL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy object, kindly identified as part of a pistol or musket of English manufacture by Kevin Leahy. Kevin comments as follows: 'I think I know what this is: the long lug with a pin through it is typical of the way that English guns were fixed together and I think that what you've got is a bit of trigger guard from a flintlock or percussion gun'. Cast curved plate with U-shaped ends, one broader than the other, and with a long U-shaped lug projecting from its concave side. The lug has a filled drilled hole of diameter c.2mm, suggesting the object pivoted when in use. A fur…
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 4th November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Normanby le Wold', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-B466F3
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete 16th century copper-gilt dress fitting, with a large rectangular loop on the reverse. The fitting has three bosses, mounted on a triangular backplate. The backplate has a cusped outline (now heavily worn). The hemispherical bosses have been soldered onto the front and have been decorated with applied filigree circles and pellets. Around the base of each boss is a ring of ropework wire. There is a central ornamentation; it appears to be a rose. The reverse is flat and undecorated, but the loop survives in situ. The loop is formed from a circular strip of copper alloy which h…
Created on: Wednesday 14th May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 15th October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near North Cave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-9102B8
Object type: CASTING WASTE
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper-alloy casting waste of uncertain date. The casting waste is amorphous in form, but narrows to a wide rounded terminal at one end. A horizontal ridge is at its widest point, as well as a series of striations arranged both horizontally and longitudinally. Further, longer longitudinal striations are present at the narrowed end. The reverse exhibits a long rough moulding along its length, which birfurcates at the wider end. There is a green patina on the surface, as well as blackened areas. The casting waste measures 48.95mm in length, 30.91mm in width, 8.59mm in…
Created on: Friday 28th August 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd September 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-674DA2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy Medieval annular brooch dating to the period c.AD 1200-1300. The brooch is broadly ovate in plan, with a rectangular cross-section. A zoomorphic head projects from the middle point of each long edge, and curves around to point inwards. It is likely that these represent snakes. The reverse is undecorated, although has a constriction at each apex to acommodate the pin, which is now missing. A green-brown patina is on the surface, as well as traces of gilding. The brooch measures 32.28mm in length, 23.07mm in width, 4.01mm in thickness and weighs 5.77g. Cf. Salis…
Created on: Monday 13th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 29th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-9ABC35
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval decorative belt fitting perhaps from a sword belt perhaps dating between 1500 and 1600 AD. The length is 20mm, width 10mm, and the weight is 4g.
Created on: Tuesday 28th June 2011
Last updated: Monday 20th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTHLEACH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-BC4105
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a copper-alloy finger-ring of early to middle Early-Medieval date. The ring has a circular bezel which is nearly flat. It is decorated with four pairs of curved incised grooves, one by each shoulder and one to top and bottom. These form a central lozenge, in which is an incised cross, with an annulet in each angle. The whole is in a incised circular border. The hoop is narrow and the outer face is bevelled. Only a short part of it survives, projecting from one shoulder. The shoulders are each decorated with three pellets forming a sub-triangular knop projecting from the angle …
Created on: Friday 5th August 2011
Last updated: Thursday 11th June 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-2C6AB6
Object type: SPATULA
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Possibly an incomplete cast copper-alloy Anglo Saxon spatula. Objects with spatulate ends, or double-ended implements with one spatulate end, are a feature of monastic asemblages of the later 8th and early 9th centuries. An association with Middle Saxon activity is perhaps preferable to the possible use of the object as a cosmetic implement from an Early Anglo-Saxon grave which was first proposed. The suggested date range is accordingly extended [by MF]. The circular-section shank flattens at the top to a perforated lug. The base of the shank expands to an incomplete flat rectangular …
Created on: Tuesday 23rd May 2006
Last updated: Friday 29th May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-480245
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast, copper alloy zoomorphic mount of probable Medieval date. The object takes the form of the head of some type of beast, possibly a dolphin, dragon or sea monster. The features comprise a broad nose, two eyes each made from ring and dot, two pointed projecting ears and curved incised eyebrows. The back of the head is flat with a large protrusion extending vertically from the back of the head which may possibly be a crest or fin. The projection is decorated with incised lines; one central and vertical and others forming a border. The back of the object and the base are both flat, …
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 13th May 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-09B6C5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy shield shaped enamelled heraldic mount of probable 14th century AD date. In profile it is broadly D shaped. It is shield shaped in plan and rectangular in cross-section. This central area is also slight domed. The outer border is flat. Three small circular rivet holes can be seen at each corner of the object all complete. The centre of the object is decorated with a three chevrons two of which are still raised. The outer border would probably have been gilded. Chevrons are a common depiction in terms of heraldic devices and therefore could belong to a wide varietie…
Created on: Wednesday 15th September 2010
Last updated: Monday 20th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST TANFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-9E14B1
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval gilded copper alloy mount, 25mm long, 11mm wide and 3mm thick with a weight of 3.26 grams. The object is sub rectangular in form and cross section and consists of a rectangular plate with a triangular plate emerging from one side. The rectangular section is decorated with a raised solid border which surrounds a raised knot like motif representing a snake. The triangular section forms a 'beaked' head consisting of a triangle with the apex curling and turning under itself. At the top corner, where it joins the rectangular plate, there is a raised circle with a raised '…
Created on: Monday 16th November 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd April 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: IOW-E562F8
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
A complete Early Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy mount (c. 410-c. 600). Style 1 derived. This mount is rectangular in plan with rounded corners and rectangular in cross-section. At the front, chip carved decoration consists of a wide border of horizontal and vertical paired billets of varying lengths. Within the border, an empty rectangular cell has a sub-oval recess. The sides are flat. However, some material has been lost around the sides due to corrosion. Off-centre, close to one end, the remains of an iron rivet can clearly be seen at the rear, but is barely visible a…
Created on: Wednesday 26th February 2014
Last updated: Thursday 2nd April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-672148
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy brooch or mount, of 8th Century AD dating. Gild copper alloy disc, with a central hole. The disc is divided into four fields by a plain cross in the four angles of which are the figures of animals surrounded by interlace. Each of these looks back over its own body and appears to have wings, although the details are difficult to discern. The eyes are marked by incised dots, the forehead and nose are separated by a steep step and, behind the eye of each animal, are two converging lines. The possible wings also bear converging lines and the animals' bodies m…
Created on: Thursday 9th October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 26th March 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-785C03
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. A small narrow cast rectangular-section bar of width 3.7mm, with a possibly zoomorphic rounded terminal resembling the eyes of a fly at one end; it is plain at the other end. Two drilled holes of diameter 1.3mm are set near the rounded terminal, between low flanges and a ridge linking them which bears four neatly incised transverse cuts. Here, two pairs of opposed half-round knops project from either side of the bar, slightly offset both from each other and from the holes, perhaps to represent legs. The terminal itself is divided by a tiny central rid…
Created on: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 12th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Binbrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-FFCDF4
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An Early Early-Medieval (Anglo Saxon, c.450-550) near-complete copper-alloy mount, possibly for furniture or a strap, with (now red) enamel decoration. The edge is cracked in one place and bent upwards a little. There are two holes in the plate, and the central rivet hole (2.85mm in diameter) has traces of iron corrosion inside it. The finder reports that there was a small amount of iron on the reverse that came off in his hand when he lifted it out of the ground. At the centre of the plate, around the rivet hole, is a hexagon. Inside is a sexfoil and the resultant triangles all …
Created on: Friday 12th July 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 10th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'St Mary Bourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-D0EBC5
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late early-medieval (11th century) copper alloy mount in the form of a zoomorphic oval loop, decorated with four moulded animal heads arranged alternately facing upwards and downwards. The heads are arranged equidistantly, but appear at the middle of the long edges and occupying all of the short edges. The band between is vertical and an elongated D in cross-section (being flat to the inside surface), 6.4mm tall and c.2mm thick. Projecting above the heads on the two longer edges is a semi-circular extension c.7mmx2mm, pierced at the centre (1.5mm in diameter); the piercings are perf…
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-42CC0B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end. A small cast asymmetrical tapered strap end with an expanded wedge-shaped split end occupied by a large bordered eye-shaped element of interlace; a pair of stumpy protrusions [legs or fins?] on one side only; continuing arcs of deeply defined interlace along its narrow body; and a longitudinally grooved and narrow pointed tongue with chevrons along its length protruding from narrow jaws, one possibly undershot and the other perhaps bearing a small rounded protruding eye. The interlace which begins strongly at the wedge-shaped end may continue in a pattern perha…
Created on: Friday 31st January 2020
Last updated: Monday 3rd February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-01550A
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy stirrup mount, as kindly identified by Kevin Leahy, who comments '...see David Williams' 'Stirrup Terminals', Finds Research Group, Datasheet 24, particularly Fig. 3.The Urnes type eye is a give away. It's still a nice find, and David saw them as being an East Anglian/Lincolnshire type'. A small oval-ended cast hollow object, in the zoomorphic form of a quadruped beast with a gaping open jaw, and with short forelimbs resting on a broad flat tail with two grooves at its end. The flat tail may indicate the subject to be a beaver: a creature known to Anglo-Saxon England, if …
Created on: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Temple Bruer', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM105
Object type: SCOOP
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Doncaster
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy feeder scoop from a seed drill consisting of a short, round sectioned shaft on one end of which is a cup which, in this case is double-sided to allow it to be used with seeds of different sizes. Around the other end of the shaft is a groove to allow it to be fixed, with other scoops, to a revolving drum, picking up seed for spreading. Length 38.9mm, diameter (of scoop bowl) 13.5mm, Mass 13.82g.
Created on: Wednesday 27th May 1998
Last updated: Friday 13th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'DONCASTER', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-8EB1FB
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy pin from a D-shaped buckle, possibly dating from the Anglo-Saxon period, c.AD 575-625. The pin has broken off from the base plate above the loop that would have wound around the pin bar. The broken end is circular in section and 8 mm in diameter and the pointed end has been chiselled from both sides into a rectangular edge that is 5 mm in length and 3 mm in width. The base plates were often shield shaped as seen in D-shaped buckles illustrated in MacGregor & Bolick (1993) om pp.203-204, nos.34.45-34.52. See LVPL-A115C7 for a similar buckle on the database, which i…
Created on: Thursday 5th December 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-3C9F06
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Mount of Post-Medieval date (AD 1650-1750). The object is composed of a large open work plate in the form of highly stylised floral motif, similar in form to a pot of lilies which (as the finder comments) is a symbol of Annunciation within Medieval Christian symbolism. The plate is composed of an upper trifoliate of lilies with incised lines on each to indicate petals. The stems join at the centre of the plate and converge into an inverted sub-triangular pot/vessel which expands out in the lower portion of the object to the rectangular body of the pot/vessel…
Created on: Tuesday 19th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-3BF695
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Mount of Post-Medieval date (AD 1675-1725). The object is cast and is circular in plan and domed with a concave back and a central circular opening for a now missing pin. The upper surface of the object has a raised integral decorative pattern composed of six repeating human face with ovate eyes, long nose, thin mouth and linear grooves representing hair. Between each face is a large annulet in pellet, three raised squares and a second annulet in pellet. The back of the object is concave and undecorated with voids indicating the positioning of the decorative…
Created on: Tuesday 19th November 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-8D9731
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy late Saxon unidentified object, possibly a pendant. The object consists of a flat central rectangular strip that projects slightly beyond the main body at one end. The projecting part has a medial sub-circular hole probably for attachment or suspension. The central strip is decorated in ribbon interlace and is flanked on each side by two openwork slots in tandem along its length, each bounded on the outside by flat integral loops formed by confronted beasts' heads or possibly Ringerike-based fronds that join in the centre of each loop, forming a slight dip to the exterior…
Created on: Wednesday 30th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-DDC6F2
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy mount with a rectangular plate from which a thinner tab extends at roughly 90 degrees. The plate has the remains of an iron rivet in the centre of the side opposite the tab and the front is decorated with raised interlace, probably a zoomorphic design, within a border with possible remains of enamelling. The plate is 26.3mm wide by 21.6mm wide by 3.1mm thick. The tab extends from the bottom side and tapers inwards fron the full width of the side at the joint to a rectangular piece 13.3mm wide with a rough, broken end missing the corners. There is a circular …
Created on: Wednesday 14th January 2009
Last updated: Friday 15th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Worthing', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-F6404F
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gilded copper alloy early medieval strip brooch dating to the period c. AD 700 - 800. The pin and part of the plate are missing. The brooch consists of a plate which would have originally been lozengiform, but is now triangular due to an old horizontal break running across the plate. The plate is decorated with an incised pattern, possibly a coiled zoomorphic beast within two concentric lozengiform ridges. The obverse of the plate retains a substantial amount of gilding. There is an oval perforation of unknown function just below the body of the coiled beast. The plate h…
Created on: Friday 21st November 2014
Last updated: Friday 11th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Berwick St John', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-391A03
Object type: SPATULA
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast copper alloy Roman wax spatula handle, probably of 2nd to early 3rd century date. The handle depicts the bust of the goddess Minerva, wearing a high crested Corinthian helmet. At the front of the helmet, on either side of the frontal ridge is an incised lentoid shape with a central perforation. The goddesses' short, wavy hair can be seen around the base of the helmet. The facial features are reasonably well defined with perforated eyes, moulded nose and closed lips. Her neck is long and slender and her shoulders are rounded. She is depicted draped, wearing the aegis, a…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd February 2011
Last updated: Friday 27th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SKIPTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-51ABA2
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and undatable copper alloy unidentified object, consisting of a rectangular plate (14.27x17.22mm) from one edge of which extends an arched arm, expanding into something flatter at its other end, although only a tiny fragment of this survives. At this point to the reverse however is a curving hook, in the same plane as the arm, but curving first backwards then forwards again. The tip is worn and it is uncertain if it is a break or not. Behind the plate, just before the arm extends, is a rectangular projection extending at right angles and broken at its end, possibly acros…
Created on: Friday 8th February 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 25th September 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NLM-76A13D
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy book fitting, as kindly identified by Rob Webley, who comments as follows: 'This looks like part of a book clasp of Howsam A.9 - certainly broken, if not repurposed. But not a harness pendant...https://finds.org.uk/counties/findsrecordingguides/book-clasps/#Howsam_type_A9 A thick one-piece cast block with a display side modelled with broad concave facets, and with an apical loop at right angles to its display plane. A flat plain back has a blind central circular moulded hollow of diameter 5mm and depth 6.2mm whose position and form matches that of the round centre of…
Created on: Tuesday 10th September 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scarning', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-00F321
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy Medieval buckle. The fragment comes from the outside edge of square frame and is surmounted by a knop bearing a human face over which is a leaf-motif. The surviving fraction of the side of the frame shows it to have angled, raising the buckle bar above the level of the outside edge. The surviving length is 19.7mm, the surviving width is 15.8mm, the thickness is 2.4mm and the weight is 2.89g.
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2007
Last updated: Monday 16th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Covenham St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-99F7A6
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete sheet copper alloy medieval folding strap clasp. The rectangular frame has a separate fixed roller with a folding plate. The length is 12.5mm, the width is 13.4mm, the thickness is 4.5mm and the weight is 1.90g.
Created on: Wednesday 6th February 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barton Upon Humber', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-CB2F97
Object type: PADLOCK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy medieval zoomorphic padlock mechanism. These mechanisms usually date between 1200 - 1500AD. This is a very fine example and is probably quite early around 1200AD. The padlock (commonly termed barrel lock because of the common cylindrical shape) is shaped like a ram. The animal has four legs and the back right leg is slightly broken. The head is elongated with two small curving rams one of them broken in half and has a decorated face with eyes and a nose. The body of the animal is undecorated. The padlock has on square hole at the front and 3 small concentric holes at the …
Created on: Monday 7th June 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd September 2019
No spatial data available.

Record ID: NLM163
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy ring key, flat sectioned hoop from one edge of which extends the bit of a key. This sits on a rectangular bezel and is low and T shaped with two small projections off the top bar which also bears and incise line. Now slightly crushed, original diameter c. 18mm, Height of bit 9.3mm, Mass 1.93g
Created on: Tuesday 9th June 1998
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'RUTLAND', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-E22722
Object type: SADDLE
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a cast copper alloy saddle pommel mount. The artefact is a short egg shape, open at one end, with a wide plate on one side at the base; this long rectangular plate has two holes with the remains of a third at the broken end. The main body is decorated with parallel lines along its length. This artefact dates to the 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Saturday 28th March 2009
Last updated: Monday 29th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Howsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-D2D0A6
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy slide key of probable Later Early Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian / Viking) date (900-1100 AD). The slide key is irregular in plan and sub-rectangular in profile. It is cast in one piece and formed around a central D shaped shank with a sub-circular looped terminal, now incomplete. This looped terminal would have had a number of small knop like projections possibly three around the edge. The junction between the loop and shank is decorated with small shoulder like projections. Similar shoulders are present at the opposite end of the shank at the junction with…
Created on: Thursday 6th July 2006
Last updated: Thursday 18th July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Astley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-CFE431
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Early-Medieval/ Early Medieval copper alloy slide key for a slide lock. It is 54.6mm in length and 18.3mm at its widest point. It weighs 8.25g. It has a pierced (5mm diameter) flat lozenge shaped collared terminal or handle, from presumably which it hung. The shaft is roughly circular in section and slightly faceted where it has been worked (5x4.5mm). To one side the lozenge handle has been worked c.0.5mm thinner than the shaft. Also on this side is a transverse ridge 0.9mm high, towards the 'slide' end of the key. The slide is T-shaped and openwork with a much smaller solid T ex…
Created on: Wednesday 11th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 18th July 2019
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Record ID: KENT-61392E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, worn cast Early Mediaeval copper-alloy buckle plate of c. 8th - 9th century date. Description: The plate is a short rectangular in shape, measuring 22.04mm perpendicular to the hinged end and 23mm parallel to the hinged end. It is decorated with reticulate interlace on either side of the pin slot and bears a stylised figure in the centre. The figure is possibly male, but it is impossible to know who is depicted. The buckle plate has a small corroded rivet on its top left hand corner, which would have secured it to its underplate, now missing. This rivet has corroded …
Created on: Friday 28th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 1st July 2019
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Record ID: DOR-FAB445
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper alloy casket key of Goodall's Winchester type 1. The long drop-shaped bow is openwork with a large curvilinear "keyhole" shaped aperture at the rear and a smaller oval one in front. The stem is short and solid, with a step to a narrowed projecting tip. The bit is rectangular with a single square cleft at the top of the leading edge; at the bottom of the bit is a small right-angled projecting ward, giving the bit an L-shaped cross-section. Dimensions: 33.65 mm x 14.86 mm x 4.73 mm, weight: 9.41 g. This key also belongs to Ward Perkins's London type IA. Kevin Leahy has …
Created on: Tuesday 1st May 2012
Last updated: Thursday 20th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burleston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-5B60B5
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy Early Medieval Middle Anglo Saxon slide lock key. The sub-circular sectioned shank terminates at one end with a semi-circular shaped bow with a central circular aperture. The rectangular bit has a smaller rectangular terminal, a rectangular aperture near the shank and three circular projections (each 11.5mm high in a triangular formation at the terminal end). The length of the key is 73.2mm, the length of the shank is 5.8mm, the width of the bow is 38.0mm and the weight is 42.18g.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd July 2008
Last updated: Friday 7th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Willoughby with Sloothby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-A346E4
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) cast copper-alloy slide key (c. 700-900). The bow is relatively large, sub-circular in plan and the frame is sub-circular in cross-section. Its shank is circular in cross-section and has a diameter of about 5.0mm. At the end of the shank a small circular depression measures 2.0mm in diameter about 1.5mm in depth. The bit is simple without clefts and its end turns outwards at an angle of almost 90°. The bit tapers slightly in width and thickness from beneath the shank to the angled end. This key is corroded overall and has small patches of o…
Created on: Wednesday 7th November 2012
Last updated: Friday 7th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-A2AEF1
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast and incised copper alloy pin of probable Middle Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (720-850 AD). The pin measures 30.9mm length, 11.7mm wide and 10.6mm thick. It weighs 6.7 grams. The pin can be divided into three parts; the head, the collar, and the shank. The head of the pin is sub-spherical in shape and measures 11.7mm x 10.6mm. It is decorated with sixteen incised sub-circular dots, which may have been created through drilling. These dots are arranged in an irregular offset pattern of three bands. At the top of the pin head is a sub spherical projection or kn…
Created on: Wednesday 10th August 2005
Last updated: Thursday 6th June 2019
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Record ID: WILT-0FE9B4
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper alloy sword pommel dating to AD 550-670. The pommel is sub-triangular in plan, consisting of a central rectangular boss flanked by sub-rectangular wings; the latter have a flat base, their top edge converging towards the slightly obliquely angled terminal. The left wing and much of the reverse has been lost to old breaks. The pommel is hollow, with the base being open and with one edge of an incomplete sub-rectangular aperture on top of the rectangular boss. There is no surviving decoration, although the artefact is highly abraded. Length: 54.60…
Created on: Thursday 7th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 5th June 2019
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Record ID: NLM40
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy strap loop, trapezoid with two projections on the inside of the narrow end. Swelling in the centre of the wider end. Section D shaped. Loops of this type were found in London in context dated to the thirteenth century (Egan and Pritchard, 1991, 233, Fig. 149)
Created on: Thursday 21st May 1998
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST LINDSEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM59
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy clasp, frame made from sheet metal, 0.6mm thick, locking mechanism may have been cast. Dated by Egan and Pritchard (1991, 117) to 'late thirteenth to early fifteenth century'
Created on: Thursday 21st May 1998
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST LINDSEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-280DA5
Object type: VESSEL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy medieval cauldron vessel. The oval-section leg is in the form of an animal leg and has a slight ridge at the front and back. The leg terminates with an angled hoof with defined toes and the flat base of which is pointed oval in shape. The length is 42.0mm, the maximum width is 18.4mm and the weight is 28.81g.
Created on: Tuesday 20th May 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 1st May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tetney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-604146
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval 16th or early 17th century AD copper alloy belt suspension loop (cf Read 790). The suspension loop is probably a sword hanger. The suspension loop is intact, projecting from the top edge at right angles to the plane of the plate, and the artefact is apparently in fair condition. The bare metal of the suspension loop has a dark green patina which also shows on the reverse side. The face of the loop is decorated but it is difficult to make out but it is decorated and would have probably originally been gilded. Compare PAS numbers LEIC-7B6454 and IOW-051E63. The length is…
Created on: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 30th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WEST BRADFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-469E37
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: BRONZE AGE
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an unidentified copper-alloy object. The piece is roughly rectangular in plan and has three complete sides, the shortest (broken)side revealing a pointed-oval section. From the broken edge it widens slightly towards the complete end (blade) but tapers gradually in thickness with a more pronounced bevel, on both sides, nearer the blade. It is also bevelled front and back towards the sides; these sides are chipped and worn and may originally have been slightly wider, but their regularity suggests they are nearly complete. The bevels to the sides and blade meet in slight c…
Created on: Wednesday 8th July 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 24th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lavant', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-530F5C
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy coin. A hammered copper alloy Irish penny of Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Spink no. S6510, issued under indenture by Richard Martin. Obverse description: Shield with Cross of St George, flanked by letters [E] R. Obverse inscription: A[---]THINRR Reverse description: Crowned harp, flanked by date: 16 02. Circumferential inscription in outer circle mostly lost. Reverse inscription: A[---] Diameter: 18.6mm, Weight: 1.66gms, die axis: 8
Created on: Wednesday 7th October 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Walkeringham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-42BC75
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment consisting of the bow and upper foot from a copper-alloy cruciform brooch of probable 6th century date (500-550 AD). The fragment is broadly sub-rectangular in shape, with two projecting wings (lappets) at the top of the foot making it an upside down T-shape. In cross-section the brooch is broadly sub-rectangular. The upper part of the bow is broken; this edge is unpatinated, suggesting a recent break. The head of the brooch is lost. The bow has a distinct curve to its profile; in the centre the cross-section is D-shaped, as the bow swells at the mid-ridge. There is a hint…
Created on: Wednesday 18th November 2009
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2019
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Record ID: SUR-EC3547
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A tongue-shaped terminal from an Early Medieval copper-alloy possible great square-headed brooch. The fragment suggests the brooch has been torn and broken. At the break is a pair of scrolled side projections. The brooch has a rivet and a separate sheet fitting on the back. On the front are four concentric U-shaped ridges which enclose a central oval ridge at the upper edge of which the rivet is visible. The ridges are randomly decorated with punched decoration.
Created on: Sunday 20th September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
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Record ID: BERK-CFC481
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn cast copper alloy fragment of the bow of an Anglo-Saxon great square-headed brooch. The bow fragment is has an arched upper section with three raised ribs; beneath this is a worn triangular section that depicts the face of a fantastical creature with pronounced eyebrows, eyes and cheek bones and a curled snout; either side of this beast lines radiate out to the edge. The reverse is worn and pitted with corrosion; there appears to be the remains of two ridges, possibly part of a catchplate or the attachment for the rest of the brooch. This fragment is too small to be able to asc…
Created on: Friday 8th November 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
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Record ID: ESS-60BD12
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of cast copper alloy Anglo-Saxon square headed brooch of Hines group XI. This fragment represents part of the headplate inner panel and the bow of the brooch. The bow is rectangular in plan and flat in section. It has been squashed flat and no longer has its C shaped curved profile. A raised moulded border surrounds the bow. The central panel is decorated with a central moulded rib, with a raised, hollow and circular boss at the central point (not domed). It is decorated to either side of the mid rib with a design in the four quarters of the bow. Each upper angle appears to h…
Created on: Monday 31st October 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-DE51DB
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy Early Medieval brooch, a Great Square Headed brooch dating from AD 500 - 600. The surviving piece is part of the footplate with the pin catchplate on the reverse. The catchplate extends into a central rib. Both ends and both sides of the brooch are broken, though there is a small length of the original edge surviving. The fragment is decorated with a central rib springing from possible nostrils and with a large convex pellet near the upper break. To each side is a ladder-like ribbon with transverse grooves. The outer edges of these are curved to follow …
Created on: Friday 12th August 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
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Record ID: DENO-AB5DEA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of a copper alloy early-medieval/Anglo-Saxon (AD c.525-c.570) great square-headed brooch, missing everyting except the bow and part of the headplate. Overall, the fragment measures 48.6mm long, 32.1mm wide and 11.5mm thick. It weighs 18.6g. The surviving part of the headplate consists of the inner panel and small fragments of the second panel. The bow is almost completely intact, but nothing below it survives. The whole fragment is gilded but the the gilt has worn off the more exposed raised areas. The inner panel of the headplate is decorated with an inverted face mask.…
Created on: Tuesday 29th September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-D1BA68
Object type: KNIFE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Object, probably Medieval made from copper alloy and iron consisting of a copper alloy socket into which is fitted a highly corroded iron fitting. While it is possible that this had a complex, expanding form it is likely that its present shape was produced by corrosion products. Where revealed the iron has the fibrous appearance characteristic of wrought iron. The copper alloy socket 41.3mm long and tapers from 15.0mm diameter at its open mouth to 11.2mm near to the point where it joins the iron element. It has 1.8mm thick walls and iron can be seen at the base of the 29mm deep socket…
Created on: Tuesday 13th October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
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Record ID: WMID-C72A93
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gilded copper alloy fragment, possibly from an early medieval great square-headed brooch. Mass 6.5g. Length 27.1mm. Width: 26.3mm. Thickness: 2.3mm. The fragment is sub-circular in plan with a broken projection at one end. The break does not appear to be recent. On the front of the fragment, a double penannular groove runs around the disc, towards the edge, and adjoins a series of recessed lines within the broken projection. There are traces of gilding on the front of the fragment, particularly on the broken projection. There may also be traces of a white metal coating on the front …
Created on: Monday 20th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2019
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Record ID: SWYOR-A9A167
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragmentary copper alloy Early Medieval Great Square Headed Brooch of which only the bow survives. The fragment is rectangular and arched. It has a central vertical ridge with a circular boss in the middle. Chip carved decoration is present on either side of the central ridge though corrosion and dirt obscure the details of the pattern which is in Anglo Saxon Style I animal art style. There are traces of gilding at the top and bottom of the fragment on the front. There appears to be a repair in one corner of the fragment. A small square plate of copper alloy sheet affixed by a coppe…
Created on: Monday 24th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2019
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