Record ID: NMS-380C00
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon copper alloy wrist clasp hook-plate. Hines 1993, Form C5. A bar along the front edge is stamped with lines of very small square, rectangular and triangular impressions. The main part is epsilon-shaped with animal-heads between round attachment lugs on the rear edge. Two other examples of Form C5 are known, from Bixley, Norfolk (HER 15607) and from Snape, Suffolk, Grave 10 (Filmer-Sankey and Pestell 2001, 38-42, Figs. 85-8). Length 19mm. Width 32.8mm. Weight 6.40g. Mid 6th century.
Created on: Thursday 2nd February 2017
Last updated: Thursday 21st February 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PUBLIC-937403
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy Early-Medieval Geat Square-Headed brooch, possibly relating to Hines group I, c.AD 500-550. Description: The fragment survives as an irregulalry shaped section of the central headplate panel and upper bow of the brooch. The bow is very shallow with a raised border and a central ridge which creates two panels on the bow. The central ridge extend from the bow into the central headplate panel. Each panel has stylised Salin style I zoomorphic designs possibly with downwards facing beasts aligned with feet to the median ridge. The central panel of the h…
Created on: Wednesday 14th September 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dumbleton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FC44C2
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Saxon gilt copper alloy wrist clasp hook-plate, a hybrid of Hines 1993 Classes B and C, "a really curious piece" (John Hines, pers. comm.). The central part is similar to the Barrington type of Form C1 (ibid. fig. 129), but at its sides substantial extensions are left plain apart from pairs of engraved lines running parallel to the front and rear edges. The front face of the hook comprises a rectangular panel with S-shaped motifs. Two large pierced rectangular lugs or loops project from the rear edge. Some detail is obscured by corrosion, and very little gilding has survived. Le…
Created on: Monday 2nd February 2015
Last updated: Monday 18th February 2019
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Record ID: PUBLIC-BE3EDA
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of gilt copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon Great Square-Headed brooch, repurposed as a secondary small D shaped brooch, c.AD 500-550. Description:The brooch survives as a D-shaped fragment with the top flatter edges raising to small points at the top of each corner side possibly representing the tips of the ears of the zoomorphic design. The middle section of the brooch is dominated by a facing beast mask with large eyes and long snout; wide where the eyes are placed but evenly narrow down the remaining length of the brooch. flanking this mask on either side are two outward facing…
Created on: Saturday 25th October 2014
Last updated: Thursday 18th July 2019
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Record ID: LIN-D92A22
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
An inscribed lead spindle dating to the early 11th century. The whorl is trapezoid in cross-section and roughly circular in plan. An hour-glass shaped hole has been drilled through the centre, measuring circa 8mm diameter at the opening. The whorl is inscribed on the side and base with Norse runes. Dr. John Hines (Cardiff University) has examined the whorl. He writes: In late summer of 2010 a lead spindle-whorl with a Norse runic inscription was found at Saltfleetby St Clement, Lincolnshire. The whorl is from a field where previously one 11th-century stirrup-strap mount had been…
Created on: Thursday 7th October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 30th July 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Saltfleetby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-750C07
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Two joining fragments making up nearly all of a gilded silver great square-headed brooch.The upper fragment consists of most of the headplate, the bow and a small part of the foot; the lower fragment consists of most of the rest of the foot. The headplate is missing one corner.It has an outer frame with deeply punched triangles inlaid with niello, giving a zig-zag effect in reserved silver.The niello has mineralised to a silvery colour and it is only possible to see the triangle shapes where the inlay has fallen out.Between this and a simple inner frame of a niello-inlaid groove is…
Created on: Monday 22nd March 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd April 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snetterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-EDB064
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) gilt copper alloy brooch (AD 410-1066). The fragment is roughly rectangular with damage to the edges that obscures any possible breaks. The front surface is decorated with a curvilinear interlocking pattern. The pattern appears to be divided in half by a vertical moulded band. On either side in the bottom corners there appears to be two crouched figures with their faces in profile. Above these figures the curvilinear design is possibly depicting plants. There are four perforations located apparently randomly in the pattern, it is uncertain if…
Created on: Monday 21st March 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 8th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Woodstock', grid reference and parish protected.