Record ID: LEIC-F1B542
Object type: HARNESS FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval copper alloy strap fitting, probably a harness link (Anglo-Scandinavian, 1000-1100), Length: 47 mm, width: 31 mm, thickness: 4 mm, weight: 18.45 g. The object is sub rectangular in form and rectangular in cross section. It consists of a plate in the form of the front half of an animal looking left (horse?) This has a rounded head with a long snout and probable mane formed of two further slightly rounded projections down the back of its neck, with linear incisions running towards the centre of the neck. The face is depicted with a circular incised eye behind a curved a l…
Created on: Tuesday 24th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-F1C6D4
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval copper alloy stirrup terminal (Anglo-Scandinavian 1000-1100) Length: 25 mm, width: 12 mm, thickness: 12 mm, weight: 11.89 g. The object is rectangular in form and triangular in cross section. It has a rectangular hollow on its lower side which contains traces of lead solder (used to apply to the stirrup). The object is in the form of a beast with a projecting snout and large flared nostrils. When viewed from above its 'nose' is pointing outwards and its snout has a large incised chevron filling it. Behind that is a prominent bulging rounded brow line, though no …
Created on: Tuesday 24th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-9158C3
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) copper alloy sword pommel, 58mm long, 43mm wide and 11mm thick. The object is in poor condition with a brown/green patina and weighs 66.02grams. The object is sub triangular in form and rectangular in section. Its upper surface has a centrally placed rectangular hole to accommodate the tang, which is flanked on its two edges with slight ridges. Each side of the object is slightly curved and has two crescent shaped holes, which are of differing sizes and may be signs of damage. Enclosing these holes is a faint Ringerike style ribbon decoration which c…
Created on: Thursday 12th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 14th September 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-01EB53
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval silver Long Cross type penny of Aethelred II, Moneyer, Oban, York mint, (N744/1) 997-1003.  The coin has been pecked,   6 times on the reverse and 3 times on the obverse.
Created on: Monday 11th August 2008
Last updated: Friday 11th August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-E424E3
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late early Medieval silver cut half penny of Edward the Confessor, expanding cross type (1050-1053).
Created on: Tuesday 7th December 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 1st August 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-96B083
Object type: KEY (LOCKING)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval/Medieval copper alloy catch?, 43mm long, 9mm wide and 8mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 7.52grams. The object consists of a long cast shaft which begins flat, and rectangular sectioned, with a curves in its centre. It then becomes rounded and hollow underneath. The object then changes its orientation and becomes flat along its side and narrow on its edge. This section seems to terminate in a circular loop, now missing. Its upper surface is decorated with a series of ridges and where the object changes orientation, in the centre of the ridges, there ar…
Created on: Thursday 29th October 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 31st May 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Loughborough Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-D6218C
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval gold bracteate fragment, 19mm long, 13mm wide and 0.5mm thick with a weight of 0.74grams. The object is sub-rectangular in form and cross section and represents a fraction of the edge of a bracteate pendant. This bracteate has no known English parallels but does have similarities to Scandinavian examples. Charlotte Behr writes, Description: Only a small, almost rectangular, fragment of the bracteate has been found that includes the outer edge of the gold foil between roughly '10.30 and 12.30' assuming that the projecting section of the gold foil was part of the…
Created on: Monday 5th September 2016
Last updated: Monday 10th April 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-9E67F6
Object type: SWORD
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Derbyshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late early medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) copper alloy sword pommel, 54mm long, 26mm high and 18mm wide. The object is in good condition and weighs 59.12grams. The pommel is sub triangular in form with a rounded base and sub rectangular in section. It is a tri-lobed type and is complete. It consists of a central sub hexagonal section which has a rounded upper surface containing a small rectangular hole for the tang. Either side of this is a smaller sub rectangular area, again with a rounded upper surface, and each side termintaes in a sub triangular protrusion. The object has a shiny si…
Created on: Friday 9th September 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 15th November 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-E51A11
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an early medieval cast gilded silver radiate-headed brooch. The fragment comprises one of the knobs originally attached to the head-plate, in the form of a stylised animal mask. It is sub-rectangular in form and semi-circular in cross section, with a hollow underside. The flat end is semi-circular, with a semi-circular hole cut out of the centre of its straight edge. Below this is the animal mask, with exaggerated raised brows that converge in a central V-shape from which protrudes a central line, which runs down the snout to terminate in a raised semi-spherical pellet. The…
Created on: Friday 2nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 27th October 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-EDD980
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval gold A-bracteate pendant, 24mm in diameter, 1mm thick and weighing 2.48 grams. The pendant has a simple gold attachment loop and shows a male bust, left, with a possible drinking horn to mouth. See full description by Dr Charlotte Behr, Roehampton University: Description: The pendant is made of a disc of gold sheet that is scratched, torn and bent in several places. A simple gold strip serves as loop. The gold underneath the loop is far more reddish than the remainder of the pendant. The centre is decorated with the design of an male head with bust. In the tradition of…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-1E63A8
Object type: BRACTEATE
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval gold A-bracteate, 34mm long, 28mm wide and 1mm thick with a weight of 3.59 grams. The bracteate is incompletely preserved, the loop has been ripped off and about one third of the stamped outer zone on the upper right part is missing. The gold foil is heavily buckled with several tears. The lower right part has been folded which may have been intentional whilst the other damages appear to be post-depositional. The gold foil was surrounded with a beaded wire set along the edge. It is heavily abraded. Underneath the (missing) loop is a beaded gold wire attachment (but with…
Created on: Tuesday 13th May 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 18th October 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-4C7D91
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Late early-medieval lead alloy brooch, 38mm in diameter, 2mm thick (5mm thick at boss) and weighing 14.30g. The object is sub-circular with six triangular protrusions forming an edge and giving the brooch a star shape. It has a small central semi-spherical solid boss. This is contained within two concentric circular beaded borders formed of joining raised dots. Outside of this, more double beaded lines curve to fill each triangular protrusion, forming arches with a central raised dot inside. Outside the raised dots, each of the triangular protrusions has a circular hole, possibly dec…
Created on: Thursday 16th May 2013
Last updated: Thursday 15th September 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-8D0E07
Object type: COIN
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval (Anglo-Viking) St Edmund memorial silver penny, incomplete, 895-910AD.
Created on: Tuesday 18th June 2019
Last updated: Thursday 30th June 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-4EB450
Object type: BROOCH
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy small-long brooch, 57mm long and 25mm wide. The brooch is in fair condition, although missing some edges, and has a green/brown patina. The head of the brooch consists of a raised rectangular plate which appears to have a plain raised border 1mm wide, although this is unclear. There are three flat knobs projecting from the headplate. The uppermost knob is nearly complete, and has a line of triangular stamp impressions separating it from the head plate. The lateral knobs are less complete; more survives of the right side, and like the upper knob it i…
Created on: Wednesday 13th July 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 15th June 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-B2A808
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Gold and garnet pendant from a necklace. The pendant is in the shape of an elongated shield and is designed to fit the garnet. It is made up of a thick back plate to which a narrow swaged loop is soldered. The garnet is set directly on the back plate with no foil backing. It is held in a poorly made dogtooth collar, which is itself surrounded by a fine-beaded wire frame. The garnet is large and is cabochon cut with a highly polished surface. The pendant is, 19mm high and 10mm wide. The stone is 13mm high and 8mm wide.
Created on: Friday 19th March 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 15th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sapcote', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-185125
Object type: PENDANT
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval (Viking) silver Thor's hammer, 29 mm long, 21 mm wide at head and 4 mm thick. The object is T-shaped and consists of a sub-rectangular head which comes to a slight point in the centre of its upper edge, and tapers gently in width to its straight edges. This sits on a tapering shaft, sub-rectangular in cross-section, which holds the remnants of a broken suspension loop at its terminal. The head is decorated with sub-rectangular punchmarks, four arranged in a square in its centre and three in a row on each side. Three of the punches appear to have round pellets within them.
Created on: Wednesday 20th June 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thurcaston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-34EA57
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Anglo saxon copper alloy strap end? measuring 24mm long, 12mm wide, 1mm thick and weighing 0.74grams. The object is in poor condition with a green/brown patina. It is sub-rectangular in form and rectangular in section. The object has tapering curved sides with no visible decoration and is missing the tip of its base.
Created on: Tuesday 8th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-345B57
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Early Medieval copper alloy strap end, measuring 36mm long, 7mm wide, 2mm thick, and weighs 2.16 grams. The object is in poor condition with a green corroded patina. The object is sub rectangular and pointed at one end. There is a single circular hole at the upper edge, and traces of a zoomorphic head is visible at the base. The object fits into Thomas Class B, the single hole may suggest if fits the later, Anglo-Scandinavian version of this class?
Created on: Tuesday 8th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-340A54
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Anglo-Saxon copper alloy strap end, measuring 33mm long, 12mm wide, 2mm thick, and weighs 2.20 grams. The object is in fair condition with a green patina. The object is sub rectangular in form with bowed edges and has two circular fixing holes in its upper edge. The object is decorated with a raised border containing the image of a dragon like beast, looking backwards. The object terminates with a raised zoomorphic head with comma shaped ears. The strap end fits Thomas Class A type 1
Created on: Tuesday 8th July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LEIC-FA9CE7
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval copper alloy strap end, 23mm long, 19mm wide and 1mm thick. The object is in fair condition with a brown patina and weighs 0.61 grams. The object is rectangular in form and section and is decorated on one side with a series of incised lines forming a border. The border contains ribbon interlace and the pattern stops over an oval motif near one end. At this point the object widens, forming a central void on that end to accomodate a strap. The ribbon interlace suggests an Anglo-Scandinavian style, perhaps a variant of Thomas class B5 or E4?
Created on: Tuesday 16th September 2008
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2022
Spatial data recorded.