Record ID: WAW-CBBAD6
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy stirrup strap mount dating to the Early Medieval period (c. AD 1000-1100). The object is sub-rectangular in plan with an integral rivet hole or suspension loop at the upper edge. The face of the mount is convex and appears to be zoomorphic in design with the motif of two eyes and a nose or beak. The face of the object is very worn thus obscuring the details. An iron rivet remains in situ in the centre of the lower edge. The reverse is concave and undecorated. The object has a patchy, light green patina. The object can be classified as Williams Class B, Typ…
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 7th July 2022
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Record ID: LEIC-E76EE3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval copper-alloy strap end, dating to c.AD 900 - 1000. The strap end is of Thomas' Class E Aspatria type being tongue shaped. A flat copper alloy object tapering gradually from a straight rear edge to a rounded front edge. It has a plain rear face surfaced with white metal tinning, and a front surface decorated with an elaborate design formed by raised elements within a narrow plain border around the edge of the object. The design superficially resembles a styalised bird, with an elongated 'body' placed centrally from the front to back of the object, a lozenge shaped 'h…
Created on: Friday 13th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2022
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Record ID: KENT-45F3BE
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy sword belt fitting of post-medieval date (c.1500-1600) Description: The object takes the form of a pentagonal plate, the right-angled edges of which are openwork scalloped. The edges are crimped and the corners elongated. The triangular portion has straight edges before two small knops either side protrude. It then finishes at a transverse break where a hook would have extended. Here it is perforated with a rivet hole. The suface of the plate has engraved decoration in the form of a heart flanked by tree trunks or columns, encircled by a long loop. Besi…
Created on: Wednesday 30th March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2022
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Record ID: KENT-C89FB4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy sword belt fitting of post-medieval date (c.1500-1600) Description: The object takes the form of a rectangular plate, the top and bottom edges of which are openwork scalloped. One edge also has an integral crescentic attachment loop. The edges are crimped and the corners elongated. The suface of the plate has some raised decoration in the form of a two crossed poles topped by fleur-de-lis (St Andrew's cross) and a loop surrounding a tree trunk or column. The plate breaks here but the loop would have encircled a heart flanked by columns or trees. One end…
Created on: Thursday 24th March 2022
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2022
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Record ID: LVPL-A850B2
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy single looped buckle dating to the medieval period (c.AD 1300-1400). The frame was originally D-shaped with a curved and widened outer edge. The frame is incomplete and breaks at the pin rest and where the frame narrows. The face is flat and is decorated with various incised lines. The main outer edge presents a series of vertical lines, whereas where the frame narrows, the design is crossed curved lines. The reverse is slightly faceted at the sides and is undecorated. The object has a smooth dark green patina Dimensions: Length 27.26mm; width 10.5…
Created on: Friday 21st January 2022
Last updated: Thursday 10th February 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Newton By Castle Acre', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-1EACEC
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy stirrup strap mount. Williams Class A, Type 15. The original surface is badly worn by cleaning. At one end of the rectangular plate is a step or remains of a hinge at 90 degrees to the plate. Adjacent to this on the plate is a single rivet hole. At the other end, approximately one third of the plate is decorated with lines in a scroll formation, and the rounded appears to follow this decoration. However, due to the over-cleaning it is not possible to establish if this is a broken edge, or the complete item.
Created on: Tuesday 21st December 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd June 2022
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Record ID: NLM-B5405C
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy harness fitting, as kindly identified by Rob Webley, who comments: 'I tend to think of these as medieval harness junctions (c. 12th-13th c.) - I thought belt stiffeners were riveted in place' with regard to an initial identification. Cast openwork version of a propeller-shaped belt stiffener, comprising two narrow and elongated triangles meeting at a pair of hemispherical moulded balls with a collar between them. Suggested date: Medieval, 1100-1300 Length: 52.2mm, Width: 8.8mm, Thickness: 4.5mm, Weight: 5.96gms
Created on: Thursday 16th December 2021
Last updated: Monday 31st January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-215CDD
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy buckle fragment, as kindly identified by Rob Webley, who comments: '... Suggesting that this is a buckle component (c. 11th century). For my short note on the type: A Neglected Type of Urnes-Style Buckle (Webley 2018), Medieval Archaeology 62:2, 392-397'. Cast trapezoid plate, stepped twice towards its base and acquiring the oval section of a narrow bar at its broken end. The intermediate stage in its diminishing width masks a pair of U-shaped lugs on the back which retain a drawn wire spindle of diameter 1.4mm. A pair of drilled holes of diameter 2mm appear at the broade…
Created on: Thursday 9th December 2021
Last updated: Monday 14th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Swinhope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-F70C70
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy figurative applique plaque of a reclining Medieval knight from a Cruxification scene, of Medieval dating (AD 1400 to AD 1500). The plaque consists of the torso of a male individual, wearing medieval style clothing. His face is angled downwards to the left. He is wearing a hood or plain skull cap helmet. His right arm is raised upwards, behind his head, bent at the elbow. His left arm is bent downwards, bent at the elbow and his left hand is on his waist. His tunic has a zig zig design across the middle. A circular attachment hole is present at the centr…
Created on: Tuesday 7th December 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 14th December 2021
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Record ID: KENT-781A62
Object type: BELL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy probable bell of Roman date (c. AD 43-410). Description: The object is constructed in one piece and is broadly conical in shape. The top of the bellis missing a small section and most of the bottom edge is missing with the exception of a circular knop which extends at a 90 degree angle from the base. Possible longitudinal grooves can be seen in some areas of the surface of the object. It has a mottled light and mid green patina. Measurements: height: 26mm; width: 30.2mm; thickness: 3.8mm; weight: 15.93g Discussion: Bells with similar knops on…
Created on: Wednesday 1st December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 2nd December 2021
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Record ID: WREX-D355EC
Object type: JETTON
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Denbighshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval French copper alloy jetton of the four fleurs de lys in a lozenge type dating AD 1488-1497 (see Mitchiner 1988, pg 210, No. 599b). Obverse has four fleur de lis in a lozenge with trefoils outside the lozenge. The legend reads + VIVE.LE.ROI.VIVE.LE.ROI.VIE spray, with dot-in-annulet stops. Reverse has a cross pattey feuilly with a flower in each quarter and the legend + GETTES.BIEN.PAIES.BIEN spray, with dot-in-annulet stops. Diameter: 25.6mm; weight: 3.99g Die axis: 11
Created on: Thursday 11th November 2021
Last updated: Thursday 11th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Waen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-51A3A4
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A distorted and incomplete copper-alloy single loop buckle frame having lost its pin bar as a result of old damage. The frame is D-shaped, and broadly oval in cross-section with rounded corners. At both ends of the frame are animal heads that grip the traces of the narrowed, oval cross sectioned bar. The animal heads are delineated by transverse, slightly obliquely set collars moulded in low relief. The heads moulded in the round with bulbous, oval eyes, waisted muzzles and pointed, up-turned snouts. At the centre of the outer edge is a triangular zoomorphic projection with long, swe…
Created on: Friday 5th November 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 17th November 2021
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Record ID: PUBLIC-6B66B9
Object type: PILGRIM BADGE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval Scottish cast lead-alloy pilgrim badge of St Andrew dating to 13th century. The badge consists of an incomplete flat sheet of lead-alloy c.90mm thick, the sheet has suffered from slight folding and has a couple of damaged gaps piercing the badge. The obverse of the badge is decorated with a central figure (St Andrew) in a vertically-lined (belted) long gown, his left foot is visible at the bottom of the badge along with a possible inscription between the left and missing right foot. St Andrews limbs are splayed as if attached to an X-shaped cross. To the r…
Created on: Wednesday 13th October 2021
Last updated: Monday 18th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'AG001B', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-AD7A09
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval copper alloy and enamel horse harness banner pendant, dating to c AD 1275-1350. The pendant has a suspension loop at the side and is attached to an upright stem, rising from a slotted horizontal base, to form a rectangular banner, decorated on both faces with the same design. Corrosion suggests this stem is of iron. The banner would have been free to revolve around the stem but is now held by corrosion products. At one end of the stem is a sub-rectangular suspension mount with two rectangular openings which allowed the pendant to hang, probably from part of the bri…
Created on: Monday 4th October 2021
Last updated: Friday 28th January 2022
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Record ID: SUSS-F4B069
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late early-medieval copper-alloy strap-end of Thomas Class E, Type 1 dating c. AD 900-1100. The artefact comprises of the lower half of a tongue-shaped plate composed of Winchester-style openwork 'plant scrolls' decoration moulded in low relief with four apertures; the reverse is flat. The object very worn and abraded, it is a red brown in colour with pale green patches of corrosion on the reverse. The strap end measures 23.69 mm in length, 24.01 mm wide, and 3.87 mm thick; it weighs 5.13 g. A similar example can be found illustrated in (Griffiths et al.…
Created on: Monday 13th September 2021
Last updated: Monday 13th September 2021
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Record ID: NLM-B6F4E3
Object type: UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy unidentified object. Rob Webley kindly comments as follows: 'This record is a little confusing insofar as the Object Type is Stirrup while spur is mentioned in the Description. As far as I know, though, we don't know what these fragments are, and similar have long been recorded under 'Unidentified Object'. Please see this forum thread for interest - http://forum.finds.org.uk/t/emailed-zoomorphic-and-odds-and-ends/19635'. Cast D-section mount of tapered form with an indistinctly moulded rounded tapered point at one end, stepped and flattened at the other. The medial zone i…
Created on: Friday 10th September 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 5th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Stamford Bridge', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-9F5076
Object type: HARNESS PENDANT
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A harness pendant of 13th - 14th century date. It is shield shaped with an integral perforated suspension lug projecting from its apex. The arms blazoned on the front appear as follows: quarterly Gules, on a bend sinister three eagles displayed argent. The pendant still hast the remains of the suspension mount in place attached by a rivet. The is some remains of gilding on the suspension mount.
Created on: Thursday 9th September 2021
Last updated: Saturday 13th November 2021
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Record ID: BERK-89E47E
Object type: BUCKLE
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 12th century copper-alloy buckle plate. Towards the attachment end f the buckle plate it divides into three bars or prongs (two of which are broken) which extend, gradually and slightly narrowing to terminal expansions. Each prong begins at the attachment end with rectangular tabs with adjacent semicircular open area, before narrowing with a distinct step in in width from both sides The remaining prong terminates in a loop. Along the line of the central projection there is a rectangular field with a chevron design. The rectangular fields either side of this have a wave pattern desig…
Created on: Wednesday 8th September 2021
Last updated: Thursday 9th September 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-4E86C0
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper alloy seal matrix of conical form (c.1300-1400). The reverse forms a rod of oval section, with a single moulded collar, and terminates in a suspension loop. The surface is degraded and there is no visible orientation mark. The die is oval. The central image is a bust to left (on die) with bobbed hair, wearing a cap, and robed. A dashed line separates the central image from the inscription, comprising lines pointing to the edge of the die (ie the dashed liens are at 90 degrees to the letters in the text). Much of the inscription is missing due to loss of the outer edge …
Created on: Tuesday 24th August 2021
Last updated: Friday 5th November 2021
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Record ID: LVPL-4C65AC
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and in two parts, copper alloy champlevé enamelled circular brooch dating to the early medieval period (c.AD 800 - 1000), Weetch Type 21. The brooch comprises a central circular panel with a wide recessed rim. The rim is approximately two thirds complete with a small portion now detached from object. The remaining portion of the rim has a beaded outer border with raised curvilinear designs. Two opposing rivets protrude from the rim suggesting the object may have been modified for alternative use, perhaps as a mount. The central panel depicts a bird holding a …
Created on: Tuesday 24th August 2021
Last updated: Monday 20th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stoke upon Tern', grid reference and parish protected.