Record ID: LEIC-8E99C6
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval copper alloy strapend, 28mm long, 9mm wide and 3mm thick. weighs 2.16grams. The object is sub-rectangular in form and section and has a crudely worked animal head at its terminal above which is a crudely carved motif, possible a beast, in a rectangular border. The object has two rivets in its upper edge to attach it to a strap and there is a crude incised semi-circle below.
Created on: Thursday 11th March 2010
Last updated: Saturday 20th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-B5B737
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval copper alloy mount, probably from the tip of a drinking horn. The object is in the form of a curved cone with an open tip and is decorated to resemble a serpent-like beast. The object has two trapezoidal 'boxes' formed by a single incised border, with one corner pointing towards the front of the object. These are designed to represent eyes and in the centre of each is a small circular hollow, probably to hold glass 'pupils'. In between these on what would be the head of the beast is a faint area of interlaced decoration or cross hatching. The edge of this section merges…
Created on: Wednesday 30th June 2010
Last updated: Saturday 20th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-501104
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Middle Anglo-Saxon ansate brooch with plain bow and discoidal terminals with chip-carved decoration. Recorded from an illustration on an identification record from 1987.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd February 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th March 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-413B05
Object type: PIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early-Medieval gilded silver pin head. It is flat and oval, and has a central sunken field with chip-carved counter-relief decoration, partly obscured by a very even coating of dark brown/orange iron corrosion, identified by Raman spectroscopy as goethite (see report below). The counter-relief decoration consists of a broad raised central stem running upwards from the reserved border at the junction of the head and shaft. The stem is decorated with dots made by a triangular punchmark, and has two pairs of undecorated branching stems emerging from each side, one pair above the oth…
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Glentham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-6F3475
Object type: TWEEZERS
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval copper alloy tweezer arm, 33mm long, 14mm wide and 1mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 3.13grams. The object consists of a rectangular sectioned shaft which tapers in width. At the narrow end the object has been bent round to form an open suspension loop, part of which remains. The wider end is flat and turned in to form the gripping edge. There are faint traces of a border of stamped dots on the right (as pictured) lower edge and there may be further dots in the centre. The fact that the tweezers flare to such a width would give them a later date, up …
Created on: Friday 8th July 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'nr Melton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-6FF8D0
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval copper alloy brooch fragment, 26mm long, 30mm wide and 9mm thick, It is in fair condition with a weight of 6.29grams. The object consists of a rectangular head plate with a wide plain raised border. Inside it has four raised 'swirls' in each corner. In the centre there are two raised 'dots' which flank what appears to be a chevron? emerging from the upper edge. This is mirrored on the lower edge but here it becomes a raised band which spills out onto the top of the upper part of the curved bow. There are integral rounded knops sitting above a band of ridges at each side…
Created on: Friday 8th July 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'nr Melton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-702EF1
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval copper alloy/iron brooch fragment?, 18mm long, 17mm wide 4mm thick. It is in fair condition with a weight of 2.37grams. The object material resembles iron and where its damaged its structure does look like iron, but it has traces of copper corrosion suggesting it may have copper alloy core? The object has three distinct patches of gilding (one below the right eye), which should appear on the close up image. The object is trefoil in form and rectangular in section. Its upper surface appears to be original and two of the gilded patches are sitting across this. It has two …
Created on: Friday 8th July 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'nr Melton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-7058A2
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval fragment of a copper alloy brooch, 26mm long, 11mm wide and 4mm thick. It is in fair condition and weighs 3.76grams. The object consists of a flat upper plate with a curved recess in its upper edge, suggesting a circular hole? Below this the object widens, thickens and begins to curve forming a bow. It has broken off where the curve is deepest and the break is extremely worn. It is probably a fragment of a small long brooch.
Created on: Friday 8th July 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'nr Melton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-707935
Object type: GIRDLE HANGER
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval fragment of a copper alloy girdle hanger.35mm long, 6mm wide and 7mm thick at the loop. It is in fair condition with a weight of 3.72grams. The object consists of a circular loop set into the top of a sub- rectangular shaft. This has a slightly rounded front which is decorated with five horizontal ridges which terminate with an incised border. Below this the object is a flat rectangular shaft whose surface is missing and which has snapped off. The break is fairly worn, suggesting it is not recent.
Created on: Friday 8th July 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'nr Melton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-70B087
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval copper alloy belt fitting, 30mm long, 7mm wide and 6mm thick. It is in fair condition with some iron staining and weighs 2.51grams. It consists of a rectangular plate which is decorated with a line of six incised dot and ring marks. It then tapers in width, forming a loop and continues along the back of the plate, terminating with a rivet attaching it to the plate. It is probably a belt fitting that would have held a suspension loop or similar.
Created on: Friday 8th July 2011
Last updated: Friday 19th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'nr Melton', grid reference and parish protected.