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Record ID: WILT-B3ACF6
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Swindon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A circular copper alloy mount or possible pendant ornament of possible Early Early-Medieval date (c.500-750), with an openwork triskele design at the centre, each arm supported by a narrow projection from the surround. At the cetre of the triskele is a small circular depression.
The object measures 64mm in diameter and varies in thickness between 0.8mm and 1.2mm, being thickest at the centre and thinning towards the edges, which are slightly convex from the front and concave from the back. It weighs 20.6g. To the reverse there are no signs of attachment.
Kevin Leahy and Helen Geak…
Created on: Friday 15th June 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2018
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This findspot is known as 'Swindon', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: PUBLIC-AFC4E2
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: City of Peterborough
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint blade, probably dating to the early Neolithic period (4000-3501BC) or possibly to the early Mesolithic (10,000-7001BC).
Flint - translucent mid grey to orange in colour.
The blade is rectangular in plan, with some cortex remaining on the distal end and covering about a third of its dorsal face.
The bulb of percussion and striking platform are clearly visible on the proximal end of the flake. The bulb of percussion shows the signs of a bulbar scar.
The artefact has been made out of a secondary flake.
The blade bears retouch on one edge to create serration. The po…
Created on: Friday 26th January 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 27th February 2018
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NLM-523A84
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Medieval horse harness pendant. The triangular pedant is slightly curved and is thickened at one corner, which probably expanded into an attachment loop, though this is now missing. One of the other corners has broken off. The face has incised decoration in the form of a St Andrew's cross executed with rocker arm decoration. Some traces of gilding survive around the cross. The surviving length is 28.4mm, the surviving with is 28.6mm, the thickness is 1.2mm and the weight is 5.44g.
Created on: Monday 10th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 22nd February 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Hemingby', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-5DDF7D
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval gilded cast copper alloy brooch with remains of iron pin fastening on the reverse. Dating from the 8th century, the mount is in fair condition with some gilding, now rather flakey, still present in the crevices of the chip-carved decoration. While the brooch appears to be lozenge-shaped this is likely to be a result of damage to its edges and it it probable that it was circular. A plain cross divides the decorated face into four equal fields, each containing a panel of deeply cut, non-zoomorphic interlace. In the centre is a circular, plain area, through which is an iro…
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2018
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This findspot is known as 'Worksop', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: HESH-C34EB7
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast lead alloy (pewter?) disc brooch of later Anglo Saxon (probably 10th century) date. The brooch has been much plough damaged; it was discovered conjoined by a small strand of metal, but subsequently has been accidentally broken into two parts during recording. The brooch would have originally been circular, but it is now more oval or sub-rectangular. It is slightly domed in profile and is convex in cross-section. It measures 38.9mm length, 31.1mm width, is a maximum of 2.4mm thick, and weighs 14.14g. The front is decorated with a cast design which is much abraded. The overall desi…
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Shrewsbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-874B54
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead alloy nummular brooch. The flat circular brooch is quite worn and slightly misshapen. The brooch appears to imitate the reverse of an eleventh century coin. Around the outer edge are traces of a beaded border, which encloses a inscription. All that remains of the blundered inscription are the letters []N/D[]. In the centre is a short voided cross. The back of the brooch has two incomplete pierced lugs to secure the pin and a folded over catchplate. Although the pin is missing, a trace of iron corrosion around one of the lugs suggests that it once had an iron pin. The survi…
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2005
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2018
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Record ID: WILT-B8D836
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Middle Early-Medieval copper alloy nummular brooch, missing roughly one quarter of the face on opposing outside edges. One of these is missing hinge mechanism. The catchplate survives on the reverse. The brooch would have been 36.2mm in diameter though this is now its height only - its width is 25mm. It weighs 7.4g and is 1.7mm thick. On the front is depicted a profile bust facing right, with shoulders facing forwards. The nose is long and bulbous and the eyes almond-shaped. The hair appears rather like a hat and possibly extends backwards in length, although a break occurs…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd July 2008
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2018
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Record ID: SUSS-064D74
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy nummular brooch, 32 mm in diameter. Around the edge, both on the front and reverse, is a single ring of pellets. On the front, made up of short engraved lines, is a motif consisting of a profile head. There is a double band around the forehead, and behind this short lines for hair. There is a circular eye, and two lines forming the angle of a nose; below the nose is a downturned mouth. More lines make the shape of a shoulder and arm, probably swathed in drapery. In front of the face is a row of lines radiating out from the centre. The head is facing right. On the reverse …
Created on: Wednesday 16th June 2004
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2018
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This findspot is known as 'Firle', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: YORYM-E80F14
Object type: COIN
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy nummus of the House of Constantine: CONSTANTINOPOLIS type, uncertain mint, AD 330-335.
Created on: Saturday 13th November 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
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This findspot is known as 'Luttons', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DENO-A790BD
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint implement of probably Neolithic date (4000-2350 B.C). Flint, white, opaque, white/cream patina across whole surface. Roughly triangular in shape and triangular in cross-section. Tertiary flake, broken with striking platform and bulb of purcussion missing. Short, sub-parallel, abrupt retouch around distal end, extending, although shallower, part way along both sides. Flakes removed from dorsal face. Some damage along along the edges on the ventral side. 42.8 mm long. 28.7 mm wide and 6.3 mm thick. 9.15 g.
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2017
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2018
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Record ID: DENO-A7EBE1
Object type: ARROWHEAD
Broad period: NEOLITHIC
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint leaf shaped arrowhead, probably early Neolithic (4000-3000 B.C.). Flint, grey/brown, translucent, no patination. Almost triangular in plan, except for an irregularity in shape on one edge. Lozenge-shaped cross-section. Bifacially worked with covering, scaled, low angle retouch.
Created on: Wednesday 20th December 2017
Last updated: Monday 8th January 2018
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Record ID: NLM-D69A09
Object type: LITHIC IMPLEMENT
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flint possible edge-polished fragment. A chunk of lentoid section with an apparently curving cutting edge with polishing immediately adjacent to it, but otherwise bearing the scars of covering scalar working entailing hard hammer removal of a small number of large flakes. Though the putative cutting edge is crisp, the object is broken c.40mm behind it. All surfaces, including the putative fracture surface, are identically covered by a dense creamy patina and are iron stained, features suggesting a prolonged exposure to a calcareous environment followed by incorporation in gravels. Thi…
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2017
Last updated: Thursday 14th December 2017
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Record ID: SOMDOR-ED68B8
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy openwork mount with Ringerike style decoration. Identified as probably part of a cheek piece from a bridle by Dr Naomi Payne (confirmed by Dr Kevin Leahy). The mount is irregular in shape and incomplete. Both faces are flat. The front face is decorated with Ringerike-style engraved lines around several openings. It is possible that the curving, tapering element along one side (around the largest opening) is the neck and head of an animal. The design iprobably contains one or more animals but, as the mount is incomplete and quite worn, it is hard to distinguish more p…
Created on: Tuesday 13th December 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 13th December 2017
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Record ID: NLM-78C696
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete gilded silver pin-head in the form of a bird. The gilding on the pin-head is now quite worn. The ends of the ears and the top of the wings are both damaged. Originally they may have joined together to form a loop. The wings are engraved with cross-hatching, to give the effect of feathers. The cylindrical shaft of the pin is broken and slightly bent. There are two grooves running horizontally around the top of the shaft.
Dimensions: The maximum length of the pin is 30.0mm, the diameter of shaft is 2mm and the weight is 5.77g.
Discussion and Date: The da…
Created on: Friday 14th January 2005
Last updated: Monday 6th November 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-F48A21
Object type: HARNESS MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper alloy medieval harness pendant mount. The rectangular plate has two integral copper alloy rivets on the back and a pair of integral parallel lugs at the bottom. The lugs were once perforated to accommodate a pin, but are now truncated. The mount is in poor condition with almost total loss of the original surface. The length is 18.9mm, the width is 21.5mm, the thickness is 4.7mm and the weight is 6.38g.
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2008
Last updated: Saturday 30th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Winteringham', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: IOW-83889C
Object type: ADZE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
An almost complete Mesolithic to Early Neolithic flint adze or axehead (c. 10000 BC-c. 3500 BC).
This implement is sub-rectangular in plan and sub-triangular in cross-section. One face has been entirely knapped and the other face has about 70% cortex. The flaking at the cutting edge end is long and short, scaled and semi-abrupt.
The cortex is grey and buff and the flaked areas have a grey patina with creamy mottling and some iron staining. A modern chip near the butt end on the cortex reveals that the flint is dark grey.
Length: 157.0mm; width: 60.9mm; thickness: 37.5mm. Weig…
Created on: Monday 23rd June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 28th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NLM-55DD82
Object type: BLOOM
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Iron metalworking debris. A large oval-ended furnace bottom or bloom [the finder's identification] with a flat top and near-vertical if irregular sides, formed either in the base of an iron ore burning furnace or in a channel cut to receive molten metal from such furnace. The object was retrieved from a reported depth of c.0.9m, and involved the cooperative labours of two people working at arms' length to extract it from the hole.
Dr Kevin Leahy kindly comments that the object has the superficial appearance of cast iron, and that this would carry with it an implication of a date af…
Created on: Tuesday 29th August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 26th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: HESH-E3EA72
Object type: MICROBURIN
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Highly patinated probable microlith of late Mesolithic date 6500-3500 BC. The microlith is sub-triangular in plan and formed from the very base of a snapped flint blade. There is no evidence for retouch or secondary working Microliths have multiple uses from being set to form harpoons and arrows too small saws and other utilitarian tool types.
It is possible gived the pointed nature of the tip of the flint that this may possibly have been a Microburin like tool - the flint is too heavily eroded to be sure - there is no evidence for detailed retouch around the tip which may substant…
Created on: Thursday 6th July 2017
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: YORYM-A4FD01
Object type: CHATELAINE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy object, probably a chatelaine fragment of Early Medieval date. The object is long with slightly convex sides (so a long oval in side view), has a circular cross-section and bears incised decoration.
The object consists of a flattened rectangular suspension loop projecting from one end with a slightly raised circumferential collar where it meets the body of the object. From this point the body swells towards the centre before tapering again towards the base where a broken and worn knop-like projection is present. It is likely this lower element, when …
Created on: Thursday 31st January 2013
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: LANCUM-F53D78
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy swivel or strap fitting dating from the early medieval period, that is the 11th or 12th century. The fitting appears complete but very worn. It is composed of two halves which are identical. They are mounted on an internal rivet and rotate freely, as can be seen in the finder's images taken from different angles. The cross-section of both segments is circular at the bottom/in the centre, but they each terminate in a small animal or possibly quadruped which sits on the apex of each half. The surfaces of both halves are extremely worn but some of the moulded decoration…
Created on: Thursday 28th August 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Noke', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DENO-1A2E18
Object type: TRANCHET AXEHEAD
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flint tranchet axehead from the early Mesolithic period (c.9000 - 8000 BC). The flint is a dark brownish-grey and fairly opaque with elements of the cortex visible. The axe is crudely worked, with a rounded cutting edge, roughly parallel sides and a pointed butt. It has a broadly triangular cross-section. The flint appears to be in the second stage of being worked due to the patches of cortex on its butt and and its ventral and dorsal faces. Also, a soft hammering technique seems to have been used, identifiable by the weak ripple marks and low bulbs of percussion. The broad shape of…
Created on: Monday 14th August 2017
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: BUC-E57F8B
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy Early Medieval mount, probably dating from the 8th Century AD. The mount is ovoid in shape, and is domed, with a hollow reverse. The mount is in the form of an elongated man's face, with a three-dimensional front and a flat reverse. The face is long and thin, with a long nose in the centre, curvilinear raised lines projecting out from the top of the nose either side forming eyebrows. Underneath these are the eyes which are oval in shape, raised around the edges, and a raised pellet in the centre. The face is moustached and bearded, the moustache is a single raised …
Created on: Tuesday 5th September 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 5th September 2017
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: CAM-FA44CB
Object type: RING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: City of Peterborough
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of brown glass weighing 1.22g with a curved length of c.20.0mm. The fragment has a D shaped cross-section and 'nicely' shaped (as described by Dr Kevin Leahy) irregular transverse fractures at each end. The inner surface of the curved length is flatter and the sides and outer curve have a more pronounced convex surface. The width and thickness varies, having a width of 4.7mm and thickness of 2.7mm at one end. The fragment then increases to a maximum width of 6.3mm and thickness of 3.8mm before reducing to a width of 5.2mm and thickness of 3.0mm at the other break. Use of a …
Created on: Friday 8th July 2016
Last updated: Thursday 27th July 2017
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: LANCUM-BB02E6
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Bedford
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval/Viking double boars head sword pommel sand cast copper alloy with gold and silver inlay. The date is betwenn 850-975 AD. The pommel is cast with a boars head at each tip with curving snouts, eyes and mouth clearly detailed reminiscent of hog back gilded with silver inlay. The centre on both sides is decorated with a geometric design that appears to consist of a possibly zoomorphic face with eyes nose and mouth and stylised hair or horns gilded with gold inlay. There are two iron rivets at either side of the base to fit to the missing upper guard.The length is 65mm, the …
Created on: Friday 19th June 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 25th July 2017
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This findspot is known as 'WOOTTON', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BERK-0FE3D3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Berkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pair of incomplete copper alloy strap loop fittings dating to the medieval period. The mounts are stylistically very similar and may have come from the same mould and as they were found in close proximity likely came from the same belt. The fittings have different decorative attributes and are therefore described separately.
Mount A) An animal's head and snout, with upturned lip, is set horizontally with a slightly raised head. The snout narrows and a small area appears to have been damaged through use, as this is the section that would have fitted into the loop to secure the fit…
Created on: Thursday 24th July 2014
Last updated: Thursday 20th July 2017
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: YORYM-D10457
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy buckle plate of 9th-century date. It is made from a single thin sheet of copper alloy, which tapers from a wider to a narrower end. Both ends are incomplete. At the wider end there are two sub-rectangular projections with a rectilinear slot in between; this may be the remains of two hinge loops to attach the plate to a frame. At the other end are two incomplete circular rivet holes. Between the rivet holes is an engraved sub-triangular shape, two sides concave and the other convex, which may be related to the 'fan-shaped' motifs found on 9th-century strap-en…
Created on: Tuesday 15th October 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 19th July 2017
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NLM-E8F141
Object type: BELL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A slightly crushed Medieval lead-alloy bell. The crushed ball-shaped bell has an integral D-shaped attachment loop. The base of the bell is made up of four petal like flaps and a pebble found inside the bell may have been the clapper. The body is decorated with a pattern of cast, raised bands representing ribbons, each 4mm wide and filled with raised transverse lines. The diameter is 17.0mm, the length is 21.0mm and the weight is 6.40g. Metal analysis done by the finder using the Phi-Rho-Z method shows that bell is an alloy of 95.01% lead and 4.99% copper.
This type of bell is know…
Created on: Wednesday 5th September 2007
Last updated: Monday 19th June 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Belton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WMID-9A16F4
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy unidentified object, possibly dating to the Medieval period.
The object comprises a broadly rectangular body, with a rectangular cross section, with three internally cast projections extending sideways from one edge. The centrally placed projection is triangular in plan, while those situated at each terminal are semi-circular in plan with a circular perforation possibly for attachment. One of these projections and perforations is now incomplete. Above these larger circular perforations situated in the body of the object are two smaller circular perforations. On the o…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd May 2017
Last updated: Thursday 8th June 2017
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Record ID: LEIC-B1BEA8
Object type: LOOMWEIGHT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Clay loomweight. Length: 69 mm, width: 30 mm, thickness: 28 mm, weight 72.7 grams. The object represents half of a circular loom weight and has a circular cross section. It has been roughly cast from a buff clay.
Created on: Thursday 3rd November 2016
Last updated: Saturday 3rd June 2017
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: LON-FF4D35
Object type: CAULKING TOOL
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
A post medieval - Modern iron caulking iron (17th - 20th century). The tool has a handle with a circular cross-section (diameter: 11.5mm) that then flattens and expands to form the blade (width: 48mm). The blade has a slight curve in the lower half. The opposite end of the handle also expands to form the rounded, flattened terminal (diameter: 29.5mm). There are no makers marks visible on the chisel.
The iron is in good condition with no corrosion.
Dimensions: length: 197mm; width: 48mm; thickness: 29.5mm.
Dr Kevin Leahy writes: very similar tools are shown a caulking tools in…
Created on: Wednesday 13th December 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2017
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: WMID-0B5416
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Circumstances of discovery
The Staffordshire hoard was discovered on the 5th of July, 2009 by Mr Terry Herbert while metal detecting on arable land (now set down to grass) at a site in Staffordshire, land owned and farmed by Mr Fred Johnson. After five days detecting on the site Mr Herbert contacted Mr Duncan Slarke, the local Finds Liaison Officer for the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Mr Slarke subsequently visited the finder at his home and prepared an initial list of 244 bags of finds. These were taken to Birmingham Museum and HM Coroner informed. Duncan Slarke also contacted the…
Created on: Friday 17th July 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2017
No spatial data available.
Record ID: WMID-399670
Object type: HOARD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A total of 91 items were recorded of which 86 are early Medieval and, with three possible exceptions, probably relate to the hoard. The finds recorded consist of 38.85g of gold and 100.90g of silver, including the 79.13g cheek piece, 5004 . It must be recognised that these figures include both earth and garnets and will be reduced by cleaning and that the descriptions of the metal alloys are based only on visual examination, not analysis. The finds include a block of earth which appears to contain gold, 5091. The preliminary x radiographs suggest that this contains a single, folded, s…
Created on: Monday 26th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 17th May 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Staffordshire', grid reference and parish protected.
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: NLM-EAA246
Object type: COIN
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A pierced Iron Age gold Stater, uninscribed North East Coast Type, Corieltavi. Van Arsdell number 800-11. The oval hole has circumferential grooves around the inside of the hole and there is a burr on both sides of the hole. The hole is drilled not punched.
Created on: Tuesday 11th December 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 10th May 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Walesby', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DENO-698D71
Object type: DIE STAMP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Complete but worn and corroded copper-alloy die for making pressed appliqué and filigree pendants of later Early Medieval date and of Viking cultural design. Such dies are known as Hiddensee-Rügen type.
The die is essentially cross-shaped and has a plain, flat back. The main part of the die consists of three cross-shaped arms which are co-joined creating two openwork circular holes through the body of the die. The fourth arm of the cross is an extended T-shape with the head of the T being rounded at the front and flat at the back. There are faint traces of interlace decoration on…
Created on: Thursday 10th April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th April 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Askham Area', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SOM-C97807
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy bridle cheek-piece of 11th-century date. The fragment measures 52mm by 27.8mm by 5.6mm and weighs 36.9g. It is very worn but there is are two old breaks at one end; between these is part of the original central circular hole for the bit. There is a decorative circular opening. One face is decorated with the head of a Ringerike-style beast in profile, facing right, with a flowing mane. Such decoration suggests that this is a type 1 cheek piece (see for example BH-FEBCD7, a broad parallel from Ware, Hertfordshire). The reverse face, has two concave mouldi…
Created on: Wednesday 9th April 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 11th April 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Chedzoy', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: HAMP-2BEA0E
Object type: BRIDLE BIT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early early-Medieval (450-700) copper-alloy cheekpiece from a cheek-bar bridle bit, consisting of a central loop and one extending arm (the other arm, diametrically opposed, is missing due to an old break and now consists of a small stump).
The central loop is oval in shape (32.0x27.7x7.8mm) and with significant wear to the irregular central perforation (max.18.1x17.2mm), presumably originally circular in shape but now with four distinct areas of wear, most exaggerated to one edge (between the two arm extensions) where it has a curved profile. These wear marks reflect t…
Created on: Friday 9th September 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Itchen Valley', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LVPL-EE4C75
Object type: CORE
Broad period: MESOLITHIC
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large flint core of early Mesolithic or early Neolithic date. The core is cylindrical with one platform and parallel striking of narrow blades. One face of the object has narrower scars from blade removal while on the opposite face wider blades have been removed down the length of the core with shorter narrower blades removed from above (towards the striking platform) at a diagonal angle to the lower removals. The removed flints appear to have been blades. There is no visible sign of platform dressing.
A strip of light cream cortex remains along the length of one side of the core…
Created on: Tuesday 7th March 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 8th March 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Barnby Moor', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LANCUM-118F07
Object type: HORSE TRAPPING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy rein guide or check rein hook. Probably from a carriage or coach horse harness, with a horn shaped finial to the guide and a hand cut threaded shank to screw into attachment point. Dates to between c1700 and c1900 AD.
The length is 74mm, width 50mm, and the thickness (at the collar) is 18mm.
Created on: Monday 14th May 2012
Last updated: Friday 17th February 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Catforth', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: WMID-9EDE71
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy mount or brooch. Early medieval. Probably Irish. Mass: 12.3g; length: 26.0mm; width: 25.2mm; depth: 8.9mm. The mount is square in plan with a raised border projecting to the front and reverse which is thickest at the corners. The front of the object is decorated with fine raised ribs forming a central square with a pointed-oval design at each corner. The reserved fields outside the inner square are decorated with fine cross-cross ribs and curves. Due to the poor surface of the object - which has a heavy covering of green corrosion products - it is unclear if there is…
Created on: Tuesday 12th May 2009
Last updated: Saturday 11th February 2017
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Waterhouses CP', grid reference and parish protected.
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